Wrocław is a beautiful city, very magical, unique, memorable for everyone who visits it at least once. A city with a rich history and tradition, full of monuments and interesting objects. His double-Polish and German identity, numerous influences from the borderlands, Czech, Austrian and Jewish traces have left its mark on his style and character. It is worth emphasizing that Wroclaw's showcase is still its multiculturalism and living multi-denominations.

A walk around the Wrocław Market Square
The history of the Wrocław Market Square begins in the 13th century, shortly after the Tatars left Silesia. The skewers of the invaders burned and robbed everything that fell into their hands.

The terrified inhabitants of the then Wrocław fled to Ostrów Tumski. The island was defended, according to legend, thanks to Blessed Czesław. The castle, which was outside the island, however, burned down. You had to start everything from the beginning. At that time, a man appeared to Princess Anna, who promised her to build a modern city for those times. Such a man in the Middle Ages was called a tenant. The tenant marked out a square in the shape of a rectangle, which was to be the representative center of the city, ie the Market Square. In addition, a smaller Solny Square and eleven streets leaving the Market Square were marked out. The townspeople were very interested in the large number of streets leaving the Market Square, because it meant that the city was important. There were rich people on the Market Square and influencing what was happening in the city. They built bigger and bigger houses with more and more beautiful façades, ie front walls of buildings. If they had money, they bought the neighboring buildings and rebuilt their homes into bigger ones and making a better impression.

The market served as a place of trade, filled with various stalls, huts and benches. Both craftsmen, who work with their own hands, produce everyday objects, for example shoes, belts, knives, pots and baskets, as well as farmers who grow plants and animals. Due to this diversity, the market was divided into places where you could buy specific products. And so sweets were sold on the north side of the Market Square, and the cereal was sold at the intersection of Świdnicka and Oławska streets. On the Market you could also buy items imported from distant countries like silk, dried figs, pomegranates, roots, or Italian wine.

Our walk begins at the fountain on the west side of the Market Square. Right next to the fountain on the pavement you will notice a square designated by another type of cube. It indicates the place where the City Scale stood.

The row of tenement houses on one side of the square is called the frontage. Behind your back is the western frontage called the Side of the Seven Elector - from the name of one of the tenement houses. All tenements on the Market Square had their names instead of numbers. Thanks to this, it was easier to recognize them.

At Rynek 2, you will find the Pod Gryfami tenement house. When you look up high, you will notice that the top of the building is decorated with numerous large animals. Do you know which ones are griffins? Gryf is a mythical animal with the paws of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. It was supposed to live in high mountains and be very dangerous for people.

House No. 5, where the Dwór Polski is located, hides the secret. Look carefully at the windows, or maybe you will discover it. One of the windows is not real, just ... painted. Do you know which ones?

Tenement under the Golden Sun, at number 6 Rynek, is decorated with a smiling sun surrounded by rays. Go inside and you will find yourself in a passage, covered with a glass roof. Look through the railings down. You will see the walls of bourgeois houses standing here in the 12th century and a well.

Town hall

  The Wroclaw Town Hall is the oldest surviving town hall in Poland. It also has the oldest clock town hall and a clock bell from 1368.

Dwarfs - these little dwarfs have permanently settled on the local streets and in the hearts of the inhabitants of Wrocław becoming a symbol of this place. The new gnomes are created thanks to a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław - Michał Osuch. Currently , there are over 100 of them in Wrocław.

Eternal Restaurant

In Wroclaw, we find the oldest gastronomic establishment in Europe - the Świdnicka Cellar operating since 1275. Its name comes from Świdnica beer, which once belonged to the best beers in Poland.

 Sacred tradition

The oldest fully preserved Wroclaw building, as well as the oldest active church is the church dedicated to Saint. Idzi, located on Ostrów Tumski.

Wroclaw's gates,

tightly closing the courtyards and separating them from the street. Probably, it was in the past that the social life of Wroclawians took place in the backyards. The mentality of the former residents had, as it turns out, a big impact on the city's architecture, inaccessible backyards and streets used exclusively for communication

Monument to Aleksander Fredro transferred from the lost city of Lviv

I invite you to Wroclaw and especially to the Wrocław market, these will be unforgettable moments of relaxation, history and architectural beauty.

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