Verified old towns & squares in Łódź — descriptions, map and practical info.
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Łódź
Piotrkowska Street in Łódź (say pyot-ROOF-ska, and the city is woodge) is the main street of one of Poland's largest cities and one of the longest high streets in Europe: a dead-straight 4.2 km avenue lined with the mansions, banks and hot…
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Under the feet of people strolling along Piotrkowska Street lies an open-air gallery of Polish cinema. The Łódź Walk of Fame consists of more than 113 brass stars set into the pavement — from Andrzej Seweryn, who received the first in 1998…
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Łódź
This octagonal square at the northern end of Piotrkowska Street is the point from which Łódź numbers its buildings, and the place where the industrial city began. It was laid out in 1823 as the marketplace of a new cloth-makers' settlement…
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The walls of the courtyard at 3 Piotrkowska Street are covered with a mosaic of hundreds of thousands of hand-cut pieces of mirror arranged in shapes that resemble rosebuds. Rose Passage (Pasaż Róży) is the work of artist Joanna Rajkowska,…
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Łódź
Before Łódź became a city of textile mills and Piotrkowska Street, it was a small farming town gathered around a single square. The Old Market Square (Stary Rynek) is the city's cradle – the first wooden town hall stood here, and in the 19…