Wroclaw- The European Capital of Culture

Hi.
As I said in yesterdays post I will much more posts this months because of my long easter break. Today I would like to make the next post about my hometown and write a little about the European Capital of Culture because Wroclaw has begun it this year.

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the EU for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong European dimension. This year Wroclaw and San Sebastian, Spain have a pleasure to be the Capital of Culture. In this link you can see my last post about Wroclaw and popular places and in this post I would like to continue it.

City Hall

Piwnica Swidnicka

Piwnica Swidnicka is the oldest restaurant in Europe located in the city hall´s underground. The restaurant was opened in 1275.

The Old Town

Ostrow Tumski

Main Railway Station

University of Wroclaw

Wroclaw´s Dwarfs

Wroclaw´s Dwarfs are small figurenes located on Wroclaw´s streets. There are over 300 dwarfs spread over the whole city.

Wroclaw´s Cathedral

One of the Wroclaw´w river port on Oder

Renoma Department Store

Sky Tower

 Sky Tower is one of the highest skyscrapers in Poland with the high of 212 m (696ft) and 51 floors. On the 49th floor there is a viewpoint for turists. The building consists of offices, apartments, shopping mall and recreation complex. Below you will find some pics from the viewpoint.

Jacob 

Body Worlds Exhibition

Hello!

I have been to Body Worlds Exhibiton in my hometown and I want to show you some pictures of this spectacular and controversial exhibition. The Body Worlds&The Cycle of Life is located in Wroclaw in Magnolia Park since September 26, 2015 until December 24, 2015. I really recommend all to go and see it, if you will have chance to do it.

The exhibition includes human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. The exhibition's developer and promoter is German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who invented the plastination technique in the late 1970s at the University of Heidelberg.

    Jacob

Wroclaw- My Hometown and The City In Heart of Europe

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Today I want to show you my hometown. It is one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe. A few years ago it was not much known to the turists but now it is! So I hope that by this post more people would like to come and visit it! The city will be the European Capital of Culture and World Book Capital.

The market sqaure and the city hall

Wroclaw is a city located in the southwestern Poland in the Lower Silesia voivodeship. It is located only 3,5 hours from Warsaw and Berlin or 4 hours from Prague. The population of city is 634,487 and 1,164,600 in metropolitan area. Wroclaw has been established in the 10th century. The city belonged to the kingdoms like Bohemia (Czech Rep.), Hungary, Prussia (Germany), Habsburg Monarchy (Austria) or First French Empire.  

The West Side of the Market Square

The Nort Side of the Market Square

West side and the Old Town hall

The market square is a medieval and it is one It is one of the largest markets in Europe, with the largest town hall in Poland. The market was founded in the 13th century.

Monopol Hotel

    The one of the most exclusive hotel in the city, with the five-star. The hotel was built in 1892, in Art Nouveau style. The hotel guested famous people like Pablo Picasso, Irene Joliot-Curie or Violetta Villas. In 1937, there was built a balcony on which Hitler could spoke to the people and then Jan Kiepura (an acclaimed Polish singer with the international carrier) had performances on it in 1958.

Railway Station

Renoma- shopping mall (department store before)

Ostrow Tumski

Ostrow Tumski is the oldest part of the city. It was formerly an island known as the Cathedral Island between the branches of the Oder River, featuring the Wroclaw Cathedral built originally in the mid 10th century. The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is built in Gothic style and the year of consecrated is 1272.

The Oder

Wroclaw is located among the Oder river. Moreover, the city has 5 rivers, 12 islands and 112 bridges. It is called as one of the "Venice of the North" 

University of Wroclaw

Wrocław is the third largest educational centre of Poland

with 135,000 students from all over the world in 30 colleges. Wroclaw has many public universities and colleges. Here you can read more if you would like to study in Poland.

National Forum of Music

Opera

Puppet Theater

Capitol Theater

Sky Tower

Magnolia Park- shopping mall

Wroclaw is also a good city for shopping, There are many shopping malls with a huge selection. There are still be more interesenting places in Wroclaw. I will include them in the second post soon! 

Jacob

 

The New Marylin Monroe's Home

Marylin has lived in many differentplaces in her lifetime but now Wroclaw has become a new Marylin's home. The city has bought 3,298 images by celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene in an auction for €1,6 million. The exhibition is located in the Centennial HallAt the exhibition there are also pictures of the other stars like Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Groucho Marx, Audrey Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Romy Schneider, Laurence Olivier, Ava Gardner, Claudia Cardinale, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Catherine Denevue and others. The exhibiton is opened to the August 15 and then it will be a part of the european capital city of culture in 2016.

At the opening day there was a fountain show which showed the Hollywood icon.