Market Square in Zielona Góra

The market square in Zielona Góra retains the medieval layout of the old town, set out as a 60 × 160 m rectangle from which six streets once radiated. Trade gave the square's sections their names: meat, flour, flax and grain. Today it is the showcase space of the largest city of Lubusz Voivodeship, a city linked with wine for centuries.

Townhouses and the town hall

The frontages are filled mostly with 19th-century townhouses — from eclectic to Neo-Renaissance and modernist — which survived the war in their original form and now adorn the old town. In the middle stands a stately town hall, around which a walk through the Old Town begins, stretching from Kożuchowska to Dworcowa street.

Bachuski figures and wine traditions

Strolling around the square are the Bachuski — small figures referring to the town's winemaking tradition, which earned it the nickname Wine Burg. Urban life in Zielona Góra began around 1222, when Duke Henry the Bearded brought settlers from Flanders.

In practice

The square lies in the heart of the city and neighbours former trading squares: Pocztowy, once the potters' market, and Słowiański, laid out in the 19th century on the site of a cemetery. During the wine harvest festival the streets around the square come alive.