The perfect holiday itinerary for Poland
Poland is a country of UNESCO-attested towns and sweeping forests, rolling Masurian plains dotted with sparkling lakes, cobbled historic centres concealing the secrets of Copernicus and countless ...
Undertones of German style belie Wroclaw’s tumultuous history, while its Polish taverns and medieval old town on the Ostr’w Tumski are to die for. Get a local tourHQ guide to show you around town.
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Poland is a country of UNESCO-attested towns and sweeping forests, rolling Masurian plains dotted with sparkling lakes, cobbled historic centres concealing the secrets of Copernicus and countless ...
If Poland were a person, he would have windswept hair from his Northern Baltic coast and would wear fine, yet dusty clothes, to reflect the glory and grandeur of his historical cities. He would have ...
Like Krakow to the east, Wroclaw (pronounced vrots-wav) is steeped in history. Touched by the Habsburgs and the Silesians, the Prussians and the Poles, and—perhaps most destructively—the Soviets, the town is a patchwork of architectural styles that thrums with stories of the past.
At its very centre stands the oldest district of the lot; Wroclaw’s Stare Miasto (Old Town)—a sea of red-tiled roofs and baroque buildings that revolves around the giant Rynek (Market Square). Today, this flag-stoned mass of space is a hubbub of bars, clubs and restaurants touting steamy bowls of pierogi dumplings; the epicentre of this lightly-hedonistic party town and home to one glorious municipal hall. Nearby, the islands of Ostrów Tumski sit like Gothic jewels amidst the waters of the Oder River, their fairy-tale streets of cobblestone spiked by the filigreed spires of the city cathedral.
There’s also plenty of action after-dark. Wroclaw tour guides tout bar crawls through the myriad micro-breweries, vodka bars throb with inebriated students, and classical tunes issue forth from the opera and philharmonic theatres—heavily weighted towards Chopin, of course.
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