Things to see and do Łódź

East of the city centre, with a very large botanical garden and a zoo.

Located north of the city center and truly impossible to miss, lies Łodź's largest forest, which is also one of Europe's largest urban parks! If you're staying in Łódź, you really must make an excursion here. The forest here is beautiful and calm, far from the industrial bustle of its city, and is home to a superb ^18th-century Franciscan Baroque convent, with a famous depiction of St. Anthony. You can get there easily by public transport from the city center, as well as by VTC or car if you're motorized.

Just before Stary Rynek from Piotrkowska, this garden was created in 1953. In the park, a monument to the Decalogue commemorates the coexistence of two peoples, Poles and Jews.

To the south of the city (access to buses No. 50 and No. 68) with a pond and a hill from where you memises the view over the whole city of Łodź.

One of the city's must-see monuments, it is a fabulous place of remembrance and an important symbol. It is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe, covering its 14 hectares with tens of thousands of tombstones, for a total of some 180,000 remains. Founded and consecrated in 1892, the cemetery remained in operation for only a short time. It miraculously escaped Nazi exactions and war damage, allowing us to admire the site in all its splendor. Some of the tombs are true architectural masterpieces, such as the vault belonging to the Pozńanski family, the city's immense tycoon. Part of this immense cemetery has been left abandoned, so it exudes a unique atmosphere, with some steles covered in moss and grass. The immense cemetery is a veritable city of tombs, inviting visitors to reflect on the fate of the Jews of Central Europe and their world engulfed by Nazism. Next to the cemetery is the sordid ghetto field, where some 45,000 victims of the Nazis were hastily buried. In 1944, torturers forced 800 Jews to dig their own graves before murdering them. The cemetery is a memorial not only to the ghetto, but also to a time when Jewish life in Poland was vibrant (perhaps even the most vibrant, as the vaults of the textile magnates testify).

This gallery is housed in the former home of Kindermann, industrial German. It organises temporary exhibitions, generally very interesting, Modern art.