Chronicles on the road: Wroclaw
Vanja Nedić — It was a long day yesterday and I didn’t feel like getting out of bed in the morning. But yesterday night, during our short fun-fact tour with Hakan, Hosam got a confirmation that the cafe he had found online was really the best in Wroclaw to have breakfast. The pictures of food got me out of the bed! Centrum Cafe is a place to go for a full, diversified breakfast. Omelets, bagels, pancakes, you name it. They have it all and it’s delicious!
After this food indulgence we went to check out the historical city center, this time with a camera! Fun quiz from last night’s tour: which of the windows is not an actual window, but a painting on the wall?
I just loved the Rynek in Wroclaw. The colorful and architecturally interesting buildings were such a pretty sight that I took a lot pictures of them. Everywhere I turned the buildings were looking even more interesting. Unfortunately, the pictures have their limitations and can’t show vividness of the colors and shapes. The legend says that these two houses were built and connected in memory of the owners’ son and daughter, who went missing one day.
I was fascinated by a pole located on one side of the Rynek, which was used during the Middle Ages for hangings and torture. It was just standing there — a living memento of the dark past, with people passing by.
After touring the whole Rynek, we went for a walk around the wider center and found ourselves in between the new-and-old building of Wroclaw University. It’s always interesting how modern architecture is reflected in the old one.
When we wanted to check the map and find where exactly we are, we actually found a gnome! Wroclaw is famous for its little residents — almost 300 metal gnomes can be found all over the city. There is even an online map with a challenge to find them all. We didn’t had the time for that, but if I ever visit Wroclaw again, this will surely be on my to do list. I really liked the little guys!
River Odra passes through Wroclaw. It is said that before World War II there were more than 300 bridges connecting opposite sides. Nowadays, there are 220 bridges over Odra and I think this could also be a challenge someday — to find and cross all the bridges in Wroclaw.
Walking down Odra river got us to Hala Targowa. We actually got interested in the building because of its looks, but then realized people are going in and out, so we decided to go inside as well. We found a completely new world in there — an old style market in its full glow. I love this kind of hidden gems, that show the local culture.
The way back to Old Town took us over the new rynek, which was a little bit disappointing to me, until I saw Koło — art piece of concrete poetry. The translation is ”Circle’’ and presents a sense of circular movement.
The bad side of our trip are the roads in Poland — there are not so many highways. Combine a local road with an accident and you get a traffic jam. Because of that, we arrived in Poznań quite late, found the first restaurant, had a bite to eat, and went to sleep. We’ll leave our Poznań tour for tomorrow.
The Eastern Chronicles Poland road trip takes place between March 7th — 15th, so stay tuned for daily stories!
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