Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Wrocław, Poland

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 4.9 km
Ascend 47 m
Descend 52 m

Explore Wrocław in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Wrocław

Sight 1: Wieża ciśnień Na Grobli

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The water tower at Na Grobli Street – a water tower with a total height of 40 m, located in Wrocław, which is one of the oldest objects of the city's technical infrastructure. The tower was built as a key element of John Moore's project to supply 200,000 inhabitants with water, corrected and dressed in a historicizing robe by the city's building counsellor Johann Christian Zimmermann.

Wikipedia: Wieża ciśnień Na Grobli (PL), Website

353 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Hydropolis

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Hydropolis is the only science centre in Poland dedicated to water, located in the city of Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Hydropolis, Wrocław (EN), Website

1689 meters / 20 minutes

Sight 3: ZOO Wrocław

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The Wrocław Zoological Garden, known simply as the Wrocław Zoo, is a zoo on Wróblewski Street in Wrocław, Poland. It is the oldest zoo in Poland, having been first launched in 1865 as the Breslau Zoological Garden while the city was part of Prussia. During the World Wars it was first shut down, then reopened and finally destroyed. After World War II, it was rebuilt and ultimately opened in 1948 and now it is also the largest zoo in the country. The zoo covers 33 hectares near downtown Wrocław. It is home to about 10,500 animals representing about 1,132 species. In terms of the number of animal species it is the third largest zoological garden in the world.

Wikipedia: Wrocław Zoo (EN), Website

587 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Centennial Hall

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Centennial Hall

The Centennial Hall, formerly named Hala Ludowa, is a historic building in Wrocław, Poland. It was constructed according to the plans of architect Max Berg in 1911–1913. Max Berg designed Centennial Hall to serve as a multifunctional structure to host "exhibitions, concerts, theatrical and opera performances, and sporting events". The hall continues to be used for sporting events, business summits, and concerts.

Wikipedia: Centennial Hall (Wrocław) (EN), Url, Website, Website 2, Heritagewebsite

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Iglica

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Iglica is a needle-like monument in Wrocław, Poland. It was built in 1948 and was 106 metres tall. Today, after renovation, the top ten metres have been removed and it is now 90 metres tall.

Wikipedia: Iglica (EN)

30 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 6: Pawilon Czterech Kopuł

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The Four Domes Pavilion – a pavilion built at the beginning of the 20th century on the exhibition grounds in the eastern part of Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Pawilon Czterech Kopuł (PL), Website

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Wrocławska Fontanna

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Wrocławska Fontanna

The Wrocław Multimedia Fountain is a multimedia musical fountain and ornamental pond in Wrocław, of western Poland. The fountain runs only during the summer season, from the last weekend of April or the first weekend of May to late October.

Wikipedia: Wrocław Multimedia Fountain (EN), Url

231 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Japanese Garden

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Wrocław's Japanese Garden was founded in the years 1909–1913 as an exotic garden for the Centennial Exhibition. It is located in the Śródmieście district of Wrocław, in the boundaries of Szczytnicki Park, near the Centennial Hall. It is home to almost 270 taxa of woody plants, as well as 78 species of Asian plants, of which 38 are endemic to Japan, such as Styrax japonicus. It is an important landmark of Wrocław.

Wikipedia: Japanese Garden, Wrocław (EN)

782 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 9: Park Hotel

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Park Hotel

Park Hotel in Wrocław – a modernist hotel building in the Dąbie housing estate at 5 Kopernika Street, built as a house of the experimental housing estate of the WUWA exhibition according to the design of Hans Scharoun as a residential house for single people and childless couples.

Wikipedia: Park Hotel we Wrocławiu (PL), Website

742 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 10: Park Dąbski

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Park Dąbski - is a park located in the eastern part of Wrocław, at the Dąbie estate, on the so -called Great Island. The current name of the park applies on the basis of § 1 point 22 of the resolution No. LXXI/454/93 of the Wrocław City Council of October 9, 1993 on the names of parks and forest areas existing in Wrocław. Near the park there are numerous academic houses of the Wrocław University of Technology and the University of Wrocław, the areas of the Ślęza Wrocław stadium, followed by the zoo, Szczytnicki Park and Hala Stulecia, and the tram depot.

Wikipedia: Park Dąbski (PL)

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