Wrocław is the tourist capital of South-West Poland with more bridges than any city in Central Europe, the second largest market square, cathedral island coated in phenomenal architecture and UNESCO Centennial Hall. When we add that it is a home of huge growing population of Gnomes loved by tourists and a gate to Lower Silesia region, you will know why Wroclaw is a great place to start your Polish adventure. ITS Poland DMC will show you all the highlights of this area.
5 days / 4 nights
BB (breakfast), HB on request (breakfast, dinner)
All year
1 city
10-50
Calm
Up to 30 days*
Arrival. Leaving luggage at your hotel/hostel. Meeting with your guide. Sightseeing of the Old Town and Ostrów Tumski. Optional entrance to Leopoldina Lecture Hall at Wrocław's University. 50 min steamboat cruise in the afternoon.
Wrocław is the most interesting and most beautiful city in Lower Silesia. You will start the tour from the Wroclaw Main Market Square. It is one of the largest markets in Europe. It has an area of 3.8 hectares. There are many colorful tenements from different eras, many restaurants, souvenir shops, bookstores .. It is a place that attracts tourists as well as Wrocław residents. The 13th century Main Market Square features the Old Town Hall. Inside is the Museum of Bourgeois Art - a branch of the City Museum and the...
The Old Market Square in Wrocław has almost 3.8 hectare and is one of the biggest old squares in Poland (after Kraków and Olecko) and Europe. It is a rectangle of 213 and 178 meters. In the centre of the square there is a big Town Hall with 66 m tower, which is the biggest in Poland. Around the market there are 60 decorative, historic tenement houses. In the basement of the Town Hall there is Piwnica Świdnicka restaurant. It is one of the oldest gastronomy points in Europe. The Town Hall is currently a city’s museum...
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Wrocław, located in the Ostrów Tumski district, is a Gothic church with Neo-Gothic additions. It is the most important temple in Wrocław, the church of the Wrocław Archbishop. A beautiful gothic building, built in the 13th / 14th century as the fifth church in this place (the first Wrocław cathedral was founded by Bolesław Chrobry in 1000), rebuilt after the destruction in 1945. Inside the cathedral there are valuable monuments of sculpture and painting: the triptych of the D...
Ostrów Tumski is the oldest, historic part of Wrocław. It was created in the area of crossings on the Odra River, between the estuaries of the rivers - Oława in the south, Ślęza and Widawa in the north. One of the most beautiful monuments of Ostrów Tumski is the Gothic cathedral of St. John the Baptist and the Church of the Holy Cross. A popular meeting place and tourist attraction is the Tumski Bridge between Wyspa Piaskowa and Ostrów, also known as the Lovers' Bridge. The lovers hang padlocks on it as a sign of the...
Leopoldina Lecture Hall is a part of Wrocław University and it is the biggest and the most representational part of the main campus. It is often called a Baroque pearl as it is a very spectacular, secular monument of architecture created at the end of this period. The lecture hall as the whole building was erected in years 1728-1732 and was named after founder of the whole university Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The lecture hall itself as the most representative part of the building has stucco decorations, frescos...
In Wrocław tourists are welcome to take part in passenger steamboat cruises. There are a few possible routes to enjoy on a voyage. Visitors can see places such as The Sand Island, National Museum, Peace Bridge, Grunwaldzki Bridge, Zoo Harbour and many more.
The Town Hall in Wrocław is a famous monument in the Gothic style. It is a historical building that has survived to our times since the 13th century. For hundreds of years, it served as the seat of city authorities and the judiciary of Wrocław. Today, the town hall houses a branch of the Wrocław City Museum - the Museum of Town Art. Permanent exhibitions that can be seen in the town hall are: the Gallery of Famous Wrocławians, Masterpieces of Wrocław Goldsmithing and the History of the Old Town Hall in Wrocław. Tempo...
Breakfast. Centeniall Hall sightseeing enlisted at UNESCO World Heritage List. In the afternoon Racławice Panorama sightseeing.
The historic Centennial Exhibition Complex includes Wrocław’s only UNESCO site, the country’s oldest zoo, the tranquil Japanese Garden, the tourist-luring Pergola Fountain and the newly renovated Four Dome Pavilion. It was constructed according to the plans of architect Max Berg in 1911–1913, when the city was part of the German Empire. Max Berg designed Centennial Hall to serve as a multi functional structure to host exhibitions, concerts, theatrical and opera performances, and sporting events, it has a seats for 7 ...
The Four Domes Pavilion was built in 1912-1913. It is part of the exhibition complex around the Centennial Hall. On June 25, 2016, the Museum of Contemporary Art, a new branch of the National Museum in Wrocław, was opened here. It presents a collection of Polish contemporary art with the works of the most outstanding artists of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of our century. The museum's collection includes works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Paweł Althamer, Mirosław Bałka, Stanisław Fijałkowski, Wł...
Racławice Panorama is 140m-long canvas that depicts the legendary General Tadeusz Kościuszko's victory over the Russian forces at Racławice in 1794, and took just over nine months to complete. Painters Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak wanted to create a monument to Polish national spirit. Their work, displayed in a rotunda built especially for it, is a popular - and financial – success. Today school groups and hordes of others file in daily for a 30-minute taped lecture on the painting and its history. Headsets with com...
Breakfast. Hydropolis Museum sightseeing. Free time in the afternoon or Afrykarium and Wrocław Zoo sightseeing or Wrocław Aquapark visit.
Hydropolis is a high-tech multimedia museum dedicated to water. Divided into eight thematic parts and started off with a short 360-degree film which takes you from the Big Bang to nucleosynthesis to the formation of planets to the origin of Earth's aqua, Hydropolis is a friendly-for-all-ages discovery zone where visitors can peek at creatures found in a drop of water, spin an Archimedes' screw, sit in a replica of the Trieste bathyscaphe, which made a descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960, or kick back ...
Africarium is a part of Wrocław zoo. It was opened in 2014. It is the first oceanarium in Poland and the only one in the world that is devoted to fauna and flora of only one continent. The name of the unit came from coinage of two words Africa and aquarium giving a huge insight into what the whole enterprise is about. Giving some basic numbers, Africarium has 15 000 000 litres of water, there are 21 pools and aquariums where visitors can admire over 350 species of fish. The place on average is visited by 2.5 thousand...
The Zoological Garden in Wrocław is located at 1 - 5 Wróblewskiego Street. It was founded in 1865. There are around 10,000 individuals in the zoo, representing over 1,100 species. In the ZOO in Wrocław visitors can observe animals from all continents and environments, there is, for example, the Pavilion of Madagascar, Sahara and Europe. Moreover, it houses a collection of a number of rare and exotic species such as manatee, okapi, bear cuscus, red hartebeest, Philippine mouse-deer, L'Hoest's monkey, and long-necked t...
The Aquapark in Wrocław is located at 99 Borowska Street. The complex has indoor and outdoor recreational pools, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, an indoor sports pool, a fitness club and saunas available all year round. Recreational pools are a perfect place for enthusiasts of water fun. This zone consists of indoor and outdoor pools with many slides, a Lazy River, a play area for children, a swimming pool for active recreation enthusiasts, and an outdoor pool. Fitness Aquapark Wrocław is one of the most modern cl...
Breakfast. Sightseeing of the main exhibition of Zajezdnia Centre - a place where knowledge about the post-war history of Wrocław and Lower Silesia is documented and popularized. In the afternoon, we recommend going to the presentation of the multimedia fountain in Wrocław (the shows take place every day from April to September).
The Zajezdnia History Centre is a unique place on the map of Wrocław. It was here, in August 1980, that the strike to support the workers of the Coast began, and it was here that the Wrocław "Solidarity" movement was born. This very place is now a unique museum created to tells the history of the city - mainly through the permanent exhibition "Wrocław 1945–2016". Beautifully arranged interiors that resemble a filmset are filled with original exhibits and plentiful audio-video materials that show the complicated histo...
The Wrocław Multimedia Fountain is located next to historic Hala Stulecia complex and the Wrocław Congress Center. It is the largest fountain in Poland and one of the largest in Europe. Its ceremonial opening took place on June 4, 2009. The 1 hectare (110,000 sq ft) fountain has as many as 800 light points, three hundred water jets and three fire jets. The shows use various synchronization of water jets with music, and in the evening also with light and laser beams. Daytime shows can be watched every day, every full ...
Breakfast. Check out from your hotel/hostel. Departure.
Local gude, optional driver
Steamboat Cruise, Centennial Hall, Panorama Racławicka, Hydropolis Museum, Zajezdnia Centre
Coach, steamboat
Hotel/hostel for sightseeing tours
Hotel/hostel for sightseeing tours
English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Italian and others on request
City tour
It is about 45 min to 1 h. When we count entering procedures.
Wrocław zoo (in which Africarium is a part) is the biggest zoo in Poland. You can easily spent there a whole day and still not to see everything. This is why we recommend visiting Africarium part as the newest and very interesting and then stroll into the areas of the museum that has your favourite animals.
Wrocław is the tourist capital of South-West Poland with more bridges than any city in Central Europe, the second largest market square, cathedral island coated in phenomenal architecture and UNESCO Centennial Hall. When we add that it is a home o...
Wrocław is the most interesting and the best well known city in Lower Silesia. It is often referred to as the city of thousand bridges as three major waterways cross here. Therefore, urban structure of this capital of lower Silesia is really inter...
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