Culture fans, welcome to - WrocLove!

Wrocław, also called the city of a thousand bridges, is the beautiful capital of the Lower Silesia region. With its colorful green and yellow houses with pointy roofs, each and every district of the city has something which is worth seeing: a bridge, a cathedral, the ruins of a mighty palace…or even an abandoned wall covered in artful graffiti. In the last few years, one of its poorest districts, Nadodrze, has seen a blossoming of subcultures and urban graffiti activity. The district is being populated by young artists on a quest for a place of inspiration, where they are free to express themselves. In the past few years, Nadodrze has grown to become a real tourist attraction, offering an authentic view of the young Polish generation’s emerging creativity, as well as glimpses of the slowly disappearing Socialist society. However, even the most infamous or, as they say, most dangerous street, Tragutta, is still breathtaking with its beautiful buildings in the German Empire style of the 1930s. In fact, this street appears in several famous movies, including “Schindler’s list”! The creativity of the city finds expression in the communitarian dimension as well: in the occasion of the European initiative in 2016, theaters and cinemas have launched a non-stop show which takes place in different spots of the city. On different evenings, for several weeks, singing groups, improvisation, and performances of many kinds fill the city with a creative energy. A trip to Wrocław is now made even easier by the “Kulturzug” (Culture Train), a train which drives from Berlin directly to Wrocław on the weekends. With pleasant weather around 20 degrees, a couple of days spent walking around in the city is time well spent. This year more than ever, Wroclaw is a “miasto spotkan”, a city of meetings, as John Paul II himself used to call it.

(Beatrice Senese studentica je poljskog Sveučilišta Opole.)