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Lithuania
Lithuania

VROTswaf - /ˈvrɑːt.slɑːf/


Etymology🔍 - from it's Old Slavic name Wrocisław meaning glorious or famous strength [wrócić = to return,

give back to a defeated foe, force to flee + sław = one's name encompassing respect, glory, reputation e.g. ]

WROCŁAW | Poland

Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania

Highlights:


📍 Old Town w/ Stare Jatki (butcher‘s stalls c. 1240) 📸, Gothic Town Hall 📸, Salt Market Sq 📸 & Medieval Prison 📸

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📍 Cathedral of St. John the Baptist 📸 & a lamplighter nightly lighting 102 gas lanterns manually†


  📍 Bronze Dwarves 📸 - once a graffiti symbol for underground anti-communists, 100s of tiny figures now cover the city.

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📍 4 Temple District w/ Evangelical 📸  & Orthodox Cathedrals, Catholic St. Anthony's 📸 & White Stork Synagogue

📍 Pączki - a kind of 🍩 donut, traditionally filled with rose marmalade (try them @ the Cukiernia Łomżanka)

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📍 The Toy Piano Gallery 📸, the Hydropolis; children's museum in an old water cistern, Invisible House; a

pitch black environment where one must rely on the other senses & the Neon Side Gallery 📸


  📍 Stunning architecture of the University of Wrocław 📸, Centennial Hall (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) &

beautiful green spaces like the Japanese Gardens, Botanical gardens, & Old Jewish Cemetery ,


  📍 The "city of bridges" has 100+ bridges 📸, like Sand Bridge (Most Piaskowy) & Cathedral Bridge (Most Tumski)


  📍 Nadodrze's street art, Przejście (Passage); sculpture rising out of sidewalk †† Train to Heaven; 90-ton locomotive

sticking out of the ground, the Racławice Panorama; century-old cyclorama of the 1790 Polish uprising


The only other place in the EU with manual gas lamp lighting is Zagreb †† Representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland
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