Lodz

is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of Poland. Łódź exists in the people imagination as a city of factories for many years. Only few people noticed the qualities of its architecture, landscape, natural and cultural heritage. The current situation is very different.
Today tourists attract to Lodz perfectly restored houses and mansions of industrialists - Art Nouveau monuments, eclectic, unique museums, and unique global complex of industrial architecture from nineteenth-century. The great attraction is Piotrkowska Street - representative street of the city, which is home for the largest city institutions, banks, shops and countless restaurants, pubs, discos, and antique shops, art galleries, cinemas and other cultural institutions. However, this most famous street in the city is not just a nightlife.
For decades Lodz was a place of different cultures: Polish, Jewish, German and Russian. Today we can admire here, material evidence of their existence, which give the city a unique character. As befits on the "Polish Manchester", because it is often referred to Łódź, there are many examples of nineteenth - century industrial architecture.
About 200 villas and palaces are located in Lodz. When you visit this city you cannot ignore its symbol - Poznanski Palace. Now there is Museum of City History. It is also worth seeing other palaces. Some of these buildings are occupied today by the Academy of Music, other by Museum of Art, where you can admire the oldest collection of modern art in Poland. National School of Film, Television and Theatre is housed in a former palace of Oskar Kohn. The seat of the Municipal Art Gallery is the most beautiful art nouveau villa.
There are also many sacred monuments here. The Jewish community was the biggest group, lived in Łódź. They built a magnificent four synagogues, which were unfortunately destroyed during World War II. Today we can admire only one of them. It is worth visiting the church of St. Alexander Nevsky and Evangelical - Augsburg Church of St. Matthew. Thanks to the excellent acoustics score here many concerts hold inside, organized by the Lodz Philharmonic. Next to this place Metropolitan Cathedral of. St. Stanislaus with over the 100-meter tower is located.
In Lodz, there is also Europe's largest Jewish cemetery. You will see the graves of 180 000, 65 000 gravestones.
Being in Łódź you should see the Museum of Cinematography and the Central Museum of Textiles . Interesting collections present the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography and the Museum of and Traditions of Independence.
Lodz is a city with large green areas. In the city there are 33 parks, of which 11 are entered in the register of monuments. A short distance from the city center there is the largest “Park on Health”. Its area is of 300 hectares. You should also explore the nearby botanical garden. Gathered there collection includes about 3 500 species and varieties of plants.
Lagiewniki familiar-sounding name is a term of Lodz's largest urban forest in Europe. It occupies an area of 1200 hectares. On its site you can admire the Baroque Franciscan monastery and the oldest monuments of the city: two wooden shrines from 1676 and 1703. In its center was created the nature reserve. The whole area is a part of the Hills Landscape Park.
The unique character of Łódź confirm events organized here with an international reputation: Lodz Ballet Meetings, the International Festival of the Art of Cinematography "Camerimage", Festival of Mountains, Extreme Sports and Travel Explorers Festival, International Competition of Musical Personalities, Clothing Designers Contest - "Golden Thread" and much, much more.

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Lodz will be a must-see:

Zoo, founded in 1938 in the areas of remnant forest of Lodz
Botanical Garden, there on the area of 64 hectares grow native flora and many plants of foreign origin
Palm House – in the oldest city park in Lodz there is the collection of plants - mainly palm trees
Łagiewniki Forest - which is the largest urban forest in Europe, with an isolated fragment as a reserve, with a center for cultural and recreation Arturówek and routes for tourists
Parks in Lodz – only few people know that, there are over 30 parks in Lodz, which are an invaluable part of the city structure
Rudzka Mountain with trails for mountain bikes, 800-foot toboggan run and the stylish Highland situated at the foot
The Street Gallery of Great Residents - perhaps it is the only object in Europe, so original in its form and location with well-known in Poland bench of Tuwim (Piotrkowska Street)
The biggest graffiti in the world - placed on the wall with an area of over 900 meters (Piotrkowska Str. 152); This record has been entered into the Guinness Book of Records
Tram line Number 0, supported by the historic composition of 5N 5 ND every summer Sunday.
Piotrkowska Street - cultural and entertainment life of the city concentrate here.
Manufactura Centre - the largest shopping facility, service and entertainment in Poland and Europe.

Lodz City

The beginning of Lodz probably go back to the twelfth century. The first documentation of the settlement came only in 1332 in the privilege given by Ladislaus, Prince of Łęczyca.
In the fifteenth century the settlement grew to the rank of the city. The economic development of the city could take place, after setting free of the city from the jurisdiction of state authorities, and fixing the details about organization of fairs. However, until the period of the industrial estate, Łódź resembled more rural than urban areas. This was due to the fact that the residents were mainly farmers involved in the craft only occasionally. During this period, the central part of the town appointed a market separated by buildings from the church square. It is here (at this Old Market), all roads converge. The only object of this period is larch parish church erected in the middle square of the church.
Till the end of the seventeenth century, Lodz has developed as a small farm town, owned by the Bishopric of Wloclawek. It became then a local center for trade and craft. There were here eight mills and workshops wheelwrights, coopers, shoemakers, carpenters and butchers.
After the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Łódź went to the Prussian occupation. At that time consisted only 250 inhabitants, and built-up area included the existing Old Town. In 1798, as a result of the secularization of church property, Łódź has become the government city. Since 1807 belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw, and from 1815 to the Polish Kingdom.
In 1820 the decision of government was, to subsume Lodz among other industrial settlements and the allocation of its role of weaving center and draper
At the beginning of the period "Lodz wielkoprzemysłowa" there arose a great factory. Even then, products, which they were created, were exported to Russia and China.
After the collapse of the November Uprising (1831) the customs restrictions came into force on, which have contributed to economic stagnation. Another period of prosperity of the city in the second half of the nineteenth century activated the development of the internal market. It contributed to the opening first railway line Industrial Lodz-Koluszki in 1865 on the route Warsaw-Vienna, the influx of cheap labor and the resumption of exports through Russia after the abolition of customs borders in 1851, and to the introduction the “golden customs” at the border of the Russian Empire in 1877.
Łódź was occupied by German forces on September 8, 1939. Then Red Army troops captured Lodz on 19 January 1945. During World War II, Łódź was not damaged heavily. The condition of the city was much better than Warsaw. Therefore Lodz, city with central location, served a temporary feature of the capital.
However, considerable damage has been the local industry. Many buildings had disappeared from the earth, and the machines were destroyed or stolen. Only after the war production was reactivated in plants and then the first universities were created.
Do not forget that Lodz is a film city. The town owes this opinion from Major Feature Film.