Wrocław Essentials

The stops, in walking order

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   Stop 1: Kościół Garnizonowy pw. Świętej Elżbiety

   ~15 min here

   St. Elizabeth’s Garrison Church is the immense Brick Gothic basilica beside the north-west corner of Wrocław’s Market Square, with a tower rising 91.46 metres above the Old Town.

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   Stop 2: Ratusz

   ~3 min here

   Ratusz, Wrocław’s Old Town Hall, occupies the centre of the Market Square as one of the city’s defining landmarks.

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   Stop 3: Kościół Świętych Stanisława, Doroty i Wacława

   ~15 min here

   Before you rises the Church of Saints Stanislaus, Dorothea and Wenceslaus, a Roman Catholic church at the southern edge of Wrocław’s Old Town.

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   Stop 4: Muzeum Architektury

   ~1 hr here

   Muzeum Architektury is Poland’s only museum devoted to architecture, housed in a fifteenth-century former Bernardine religious complex.

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   Stop 5: Most Tumski

   ~3 min here

   Seventeen tonnes of love locks came off Most Tumski during its 2019 overhaul.

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   Stop 6: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich

   ~3 min here

   The remarkable thing about the Ossolineum is that only about a third of its pre-war treasures reached Wrocław.

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   Stop 7: Powodzianka

   ~3 min here

   Books are the burden carried by the woman before you.

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   Stop 8: Muzeum Archeologiczne

   ~1 hr here

   Muzeum Archeologiczne occupies this medieval Municipal Arsenal, one of the few medieval buildings in Wrocław preserved intact.

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