Self-guided walking tour
Wrocław Walking Tour: Monuments of Memory (about 2 hours, 9 stops)
9 stops in walking order through Wrocław, from chaczkar to Plac Legionów: 6.5 km on foot, about 1 h 18 min of walking, 1 h 50 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Monuments of Memory”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.
- Total
- 1 h 50 min
- Distance
- 6.5 km
- Walking
- 1 h 18 min
- Stops
- 9
The stops, in walking order
chaczkar
Wrocław’s chaczkar is an Armenian stone memorial in the square by Janickiego Street.
6 min walk · 480 m
Pomnik ku czci Polaków walczących o niepodległość
Two acts of remembrance meet here: the Constitution of 3 May and the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Racławice.
3 min walk · 240 m
plac Polski
A small street-and-garden square in Wrocław’s New Town, connected to the Old Town Promenade.
1 min walk · 70 m
Pomnik ofiar UPA
A Wrocław memorial of two pylons enclosing a stylized crucified Christ.
12 min walk · 1.0 km
Pomnik Bohaterów Powstania Węgierskiego
Wrocław’s Monument to the Heroes of the Hungarian Uprising commemorates participants in Hungary’s 1956 revolt.
18 min walk · 1.5 km
W hołdzie patriotom różnych narodowości straconych w latach 1939-1945
This fractured concrete obelisk commemorates victims of Nazism murdered in a nearby prison.
7 min walk · 540 m
Zesłańcom Sybiru
The Memorial to Siberian Deportees is a twelve-metre monument on Skwer Sybiraków beside plac Strzelecki in Wrocław.
11 min walk · 960 m
Powodzianka
A monument by Wrocław sculptor Stanisław Wysocki, unveiled in July 1998 to mark the first anniversary of the Millennium Flood.
20 min walk · 1.6 km
Plac Legionów
Names can carry a whole political idea in just a few words.
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