Japanese Garden in Wrocław

Centennial Hall

Lower Silesian

60–120 min

0.4 km

The Centennial Hall (German: Jahrhunderthalle) is a Wrocław icon of modernism and one of the boldest works of 20th-century architecture. Built in 1911–1913 to a design by Max Berg, it stunned its contemporaries with a reinforced concrete d…

Hydropolis Water Knowledge Centre in Wrocław

Lower Silesian

120–150 min

1.7 km

Hydropolis is housed in a historic complex connected with Wrocław’s water infrastructure. It explains water through images, sound and experiments rather than long labels behind glass. The result is a museum that works particularly well for…

Wrocław Archcathedral

Lower Silesian

2.4 km

**The Archcathedral of St John the Baptist in Wrocław** is one of the key landmarks of Cathedral Island and one of the city’s most distinctive Gothic buildings. The present church was built in the 13th and 14th centuries on the site of ear…

Racławice Panorama

Lower Silesian

60–90 min

2.5 km

The Racławice Panorama is a monumental painting displayed in a rotunda where the canvas and constructed foreground create the illusion of standing inside a battle. It depicts the Polish victory at Racławice in 1794, while the visit also te…

University of Wrocław

Lower Silesian

45–90 min

3.2 km

The main building of the University of Wrocław, known as the Leopoldina, is one of the most beautiful Baroque academic buildings in Europe. Emperor Leopold I founded the university in 1702 as a Jesuit college, and the grand edifice on the…

Wrocław Dwarfs

Lower Silesian

3.3 km

The smallest inhabitants of Wrocław have their own trail, a mobile app and a crowd of fans: dwarf figurines have been appearing in the city since **2001** and today there are nearly **1000** of them. They stand on streets and pavements, cl…

Wrocław Market Square

Lower Silesian

3.4 km

Wrocław Market Square is one of the largest medieval squares in Europe: **204 by 170 metres**, **3.64 ha** of buildings around a central block with the Gothic Town Hall. The city was founded around **1232** by Henry the Bearded, and the fi…

Garrison Church in Wrocław

Lower Silesian

3.4 km

**The Garrison Church in Wrocław**, the Minor Basilica of St Elizabeth, dominates the western side of the Market Square. For centuries the Gothic church served the city’s patricians; today it belongs to a military-civil parish. Its main vi…

Stare Jatki in Wrocław

Lower Silesian

3.5 km

A few steps from the Wrocław market square, between Odrzańska and Kiełbaśnicza streets, stretches a narrow lane with medieval roots. Today Stare Jatki is a cobbled passage with galleries, cafés and a monument to animals, but for centuries…