Things to do in Wrocław

Wrocław Archcathedral

Wrocław

**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…

Wrocław Market Square

Wrocław

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

Wrocław

**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…

Japanese Garden in Wrocław

Wrocław

90–120 min

Wrocław’s Japanese Garden was created for the 1913 World Exhibition and still works through composition: water, stone, plants, bridges and the rhythm of its paths. It is not a park for a long hike, but a place for a slow, attentive walk. #…

Hydropolis Water Knowledge Centre in Wrocław

Wrocław

120–150 min

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…

House under the Golden Sun

Wrocław

House under the Golden Sun in Wrocław offers an introduction to the history, culture or heritage of the area. Its displays bring together local objects, artworks and stories connected with the place, making it a natural addition to a city…

Afrykarium Wrocław

Wrocław

Afrykarium in Wrocław is Poland’s largest oceanarium and one of the main pavilions at Wrocław Zoo. The partly underground building presents African ecosystems from the Red Sea to the Congo Basin, with large tanks, an underwater tunnel and…

Wrocław Aquapark

Wrocław

30–90 min

Arena Laser Games in Łódź’s Manufaktura is an indoor laser tag game, also known as laser paintball. Players wear sensor vests and use guns that emit an infrared beam instead of paint pellets. The game takes place in a dark maze with obstac…

Depot History Centre in Wrocław

Wrocław

## Why visit The Depot History Centre occupies a historic depot at 184 Grabiszyńska Street in Wrocław. The museum explains the city’s post-war story: changed borders, new arrivals, reconstruction and the rise of Solidarity. The exhibition…

Kolejkowo Wrocław

Wrocław

**Kolejkowo Wrocław** is a miniature Lower Silesia on the first floor of Sky Tower at 95 Powstańców Śląskich Street. The display combines moving trains, cars and boats with thousands of figures and everyday scenes. The best way to visit is…

Kolejkowo Wrocław

Wrocław

**Kolejkowo Wrocław in Sky Tower** is one of the city’s most detailed family attractions. Across about 900 m², the 1:25-scale display presents Lower Silesia with 15 trains, trams, cars, 242 buildings and thousands of figures. Recognisable…

Grunwald Bridge

Wrocław

Grunwald Bridge is one of the most recognisable features of Wrocław’s cityscape and an interesting monument of engineering in its own right. It was built between 1908 and 1910 to connect the city centre with the expanding eastern districts…

National Museum in Wrocław

Wrocław

The National Museum in Wrocław at 5 Powstańców Warszawy Square has a particularly strong Lower Silesian identity. The institution’s collections contain more than 200,000 objects, while the main building is especially important for its medi…

Museum of Cemetery Art – Old Jewish Cemetery

Wrocław

The Old Jewish Cemetery on Ślężna Street is now a branch of the City Museum of Wrocław and the city’s only surviving necropolis from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The first burial took place here in 1856 and the last in 1942. Ar…

Palace in Biskupice Podgórne

Wrocław

South-west of Wrocław, in the Kobierzyce commune, stands a Baroque palace from the first half of the 18th century. After years under military and state-farm management the complex returned to private hands and was meticulously restored — t…

Gałów Palace

Wrocław

Near Miękinia, west of Wrocław, amid a park flowing into riverside forests stand the ruins of an eclectic palace. The place looks bleak, but its history written since **1561** and the surviving details — coats of arms, German inscriptions,…

Park of Illuminations at Zamek Topacz

Wrocław

On the grounds of Zamek Topacz in Ślęza, right at the edge of Wrocław, operates the Park of Illuminations — a **1.5 km** trail lit by more than **500,000 points of light** and over **20 kilometres** of light chains, all based on energy-sav…

Sky Tower Observation Deck

Wrocław

The Sky Tower observation deck is located on the 49th floor, around 200 metres above Wrocław. Following its modernisation, it is no longer simply a glass-walled room with a view: visitors now have around 600 m² of space, a café and an outd…

Stare Jatki in Wrocław

Wrocław

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…

Wrocław Dwarfs

Wrocław

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…

Topacz Castle

Wrocław

Three kilometres from the city limits of Wrocław, in Ślęza, hides a castle with eight centuries of history. At the beginning of the **14th century** the Templars built a two-storey fortified residential tower on a rectangular plan, around…