Łódź it is a fascinating place. Where else can you find cinemas, restaurants and pubs in old factory, museum down a sewer, rickshaws peddling in snow, a helicopter inside an internet café and a street featuring the largest piece of graffiti in the world?
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Łódź - Poland’s second largest city - is an important commercial, trade, science, and cultural centre. By the late 19th century Łódź had been home to the Polish, German, Jewish, Russian, Czech, Silesian and many others nations – it was a true melting pot of cultures.
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In the 19th century Łódź became the second largest city in Poland. At that time its population was made up of Polish, German, Jew, Russian, Czech... They all found this new place of living taste like "the Land of Promise".
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The rapid development of Łódź in the second half of 19th century brought about the rise of enormous industrialist fortunes. The city residences became expressions of the riches and power of the local tycoons...
more infoGems of architecture of Łódź
Anyone wishing to learn about the industrial past of the City of Łódź ought to visit the eastern frontier of the former factory locations. One of the largest 19th century weaving-houses of Europe was built here - in Łódź...
more infoMuseums
Visit the most famous musuems of Łódź!
more infoŁódź - city of festivals
There are at least 40 festivals taking place in Lodz. No wonder periodic events are becoming the speciality of Łódź. The cultural calendar of the city is full of international festivals and local ones.
more infoCinematography centre
Łódź is famous as the film centre of Poland. The city gained its fame thanks to the famous Film School, i.e. The Leon Schiller Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź, with graduates as famous as Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski...
more infoJewish traces in Łódź
The Jewish Cemetery in Bracka Street is the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe. Allong the main alley there lies buried the creators of the city’s industrial glory...
more infoGreen city
The Łagiewnicki Forest is the largest municipal forest in Poland. Architectural monuments, like the baroque monastery complex of the Franciscan order and the oldest monuments in Łódź - are located in the forest area
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