8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Łódź is the most centrally located city in Poland. It is famous for its textile industry and Jewish heritage. It is an iconic city of industrial revolution in Poland. Nowadays, the city has over 677 thousand of inhabitants but agglomeration boasts even 1.1 mln inhabitants. Still, for years the city was undervalued by tourist. Discover this interesting agglomeration with ITS Poland travel agents!
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Lunch on request
All year
1 city
10-50
Moderate
Up to 30 days*
Pick up from your hotel/hostel in Warsaw by our coach. Transfer to Łódź. Meeting with your Łódź guide. Sightseeing of the city Freedom Square and Piotrowska (the longest Polish boulvard) with multitude of shops, cafes and restaurants. Next, Rose Passage and sightseeing of White Factory Museum. Transfer to Poznański Palace and museum sightseeing. Lunch break and free time in Manufaktura. Then, we will continue by panoramic sightseeing of Księży Młyn district and sightseeing of Herbst Palace. Return to Warsaw with short stop at Radegast Station to commemorate Jewish community of Łódź.
The Rose Passage (Polish: Pasaż Róży w Łodzi) is located at 3 Piotrowska Street in Łódź. It is a project where all the walls of the backyard have been covered in the pieces of mirror of various shapes: here we can find rectangles, squares, triangles, diamonds and any other shapes you can imagine. The whole creates a unique mosaic that turned the dark and gray backyard into a bright and magical place. The author of the Rose Passage is Joanna Rajkowska. It was a unique and personal realization for her, which alludes to...
The White Factory (Polish: Biała Fabryka w Łodzi) was built in the years 1835–1837. It was the first textile factory in Lodz, where fully mechanized production was carried out, bringing together all phases of fabric production. Also the first one, in which a boiler room was erected and a steam engine was installed, thus make the Łódź industry independent from the need to use water to drive machines. Currently, it houses the Central Museum of Textiles. In the museum, visitors will learn the secrets of the textile pro...
Palace Izraela is a manufacturer’s palace from the 19th century, often called Łódź’s Louvre and currently a Museum of Łódź City. It is situated at 15 Ogrodowa Street and is one of the most glamorous buildings in the city. It was originally situated close to a factory and worker’s houses and it was a part of factory-residential complex. The building was initially designed on a basis of French Renaissance ideas. Still, after rebuilding which ended about 1903, the main corpus has gained monumental neo-Baroque character....
Manufaktura is an art center, shopping mall and leisure complex in Łódź. It opened on May 17, 2006, between Zachodnia, Ogrodowa, Drewnowska and Jana Karskieg Streets. Together with the adjacent beautiful Poznański Palace, is the factory complex of Izrael Poznański, the great factory owner in Łódź. The Poznański Palace itself is called the "Łódź Louvre". Built in many styles, today it serves, among others, the function of the Museum of the History of the City of Łódź and is an evenement on a global scale. Today Manufa...
The Herbst Palace (Polish: Muzeum Pałac Herbsta) is a place associated with the fate of the Herbst and Scheibler families, who were included among the richest and most influential families of industrialists not only in Łódź, but also throughout Poland in the second half of the 19th century. In the 1970s, the Herbst family house was taken over by the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź to create an internal exhibition. Currently, the Herbst Palace Museum is an institution that collects and provides collections of old paintings, scu...
The Radegast train station (Polish: Stacja Radegast) is a historic railway building from 1941. During World War II, it was associated with the ghetto established by the Germans in 1940 in Łódź. Initially, the building served as a reloading point for food and raw materials, intended for the population and workplaces of the ghetto. From January 1942, the station became the place from which Jews were transported to the Kulmhof extermination camps in Chełmno on the Ner and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Today, the building is a mem...
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White Factory Museum, Poznański Palace Museum, Herbst Palace
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Your hotel/hostel in Warsaw
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