Old Town + Alternative Wroclaw

In Wroclaw, it is worth discovering not only Old Town and the Cathedral Island. The city definitely offers more. During this tour you will see both, the historical and alternative, parts of Wroclaw.

During the first part of the tour you get the chance to see the most important buildings and places in the city center – the Old Town Hall, the Market Square, the Salt Square, the Pillory, the Elizabeth Church, the Old Prison, the University’s main building, the Ossolinski National Library, the Market Hall and the oldest part of the city: the Cathedral Island.

These places will help you get to know the rich and complicated history of the city and find out how Wroclaw has changed in the course of time. Throughout the centuries the city was under the Polish, Bohemian, Habsburg and German authorities.

In the second part of this tour you will visit the one and only Nadodrze District full of places where many directors, including Steven Spielberg, made war movies, and street artists from all over the world created their works.

The city council has been trying to change this neighborhood for the last years. The process of gentrification is in progress and the moment of the transformation of this district is very visible now. The new together with the old, hip pubs versus shops with cheap alcohol and one-armed bandits, young, well-educated people versus modest living retirees.

This diverse mixture and these contrasts are the mark of Nadodrze.Today, Nadodrze is also well-known for small galleries run by young, local artists, crafts companies and projects of the social economy.

The walk in this neighborhood will make you hungry, but don’t worry! Nadodrze also offers one of the best bakeries and ice cream parlors in the city. The tour is especially recommended for people who would like to have a full picture of Wroclaw.