Travel Guide Wrocław

The fourth largest city in Poland with 650,000 inhabitants, capital of Lower Silesia, Wrocław is one of the most attractive cities in Poland. Lively, academic, modern, it is full of architectural wonders, incredible when you think that there was almost nothing left of it at the end of the Second World War. Its Rynek is one of the most beautiful in the country, its baroque churches and university are sumptuous, the island of its cathedral is most characteristic. It's a hotbed of culture as evidenced by the art that inhabits and transforms it constantly. Few Polish cities are so creative, it is now full of graffiti and unusual statues. Not very "Polish", since its treasures are mainly of German and Austrian origin, it is often relegated to second place by national tourism, behind Krakow, Poznań and Gdańsk. Yet it has nothing to envy its sisters. Wrocław is a unique, paradoxical and almost elusive landscape: more than a city, it is somewhere between two cities that were not destined to merge : Breslau, as it was called when it was German, omnipresent and at the same time extinct, and Lwów, a Polish city before the war, which was almost systematically "moved in" with institutions and inhabitants in the setting of the former. A city that lives in the setting of another, from this was born Wrocław, which more than any other has been shaped by the new Poland, the one after 1945. Perhaps for this reason it is moving forward, constantly renewing itself, definitively turned towards the West and modernity.