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) Next, admireing Rose Passage and transfer to Poznański Palace and museum sightseeing. Lunch break and free time in Manufaktura. Then, we continue with sightseeing of EC1 Science Centre and planetarium. Return to Warsaw with short stop at Survivor's Park and 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...
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 Planetarium EC1 was opened on January 8, 2016. It is one of the most modern planetariums in Europe and was recognized as one of the "7 New Wonders of Poland 2016" of the National Geographic monthly "Traveler". Planetarium is located in the New Center of Łódź at 1/3 Targowa Street, next to the Łódź Fabryczna railway station. Under the dome with a diameter of 18 meters, there is a spherical screen with a diameter of 14 meters, an advanced projection system with a resolution of 8K. Planetarium EC1 Lodz has 110 sea...
EC1 Łódź – City of Culture (Polish: EC1 Łódź – Miasto Kultury) is a cultural institution run by the City of Łódź and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. The revitalized and expanded EC1 complex performs cultural, artistic and educational functions. At the same time, it is an important element of the New Center of Łódź, combining architectural trends from the beginning of the last century and the modern post-industrial trend. On January 8, 2016, in the EC1 East building, a planetarium was opened - the most ...
Survivors’ Park (Polish: Park Ocalałych w Łodzi) is a park in Łódź commemorating people who went through the Ghetto Litzmannstadt. It was established in 2004, during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, on the initiative of Halina Elczewska, a woman who survived the occupation. The park is located in the former territory of Lodz Ghetto, between Wojska Polskiego Street and allotment gardens at Sporna Street in the valley of the Lodz River, in the area adjacent to the ...
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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Poznański Palace Museum, EC1 Science Centre and Planetarium
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