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• pl. Wolności

  To find the spiritual centre of Lodz one must not go to ulica Piotrkowska, but to the bottom of it, namely to pl....

• Marcel Szytenchelm

  While much of Łódź looks like it’s ready to keel over the  main drag, Piotrkowska, is something of a feast for the eyes; scrubbed, beveled and back to its best this art nouveau masterpiece is, for many, the whole reason for visiting....

• Pola Negri

  
  One Polish name is particularly associated with the advent of film and Hollywood glamour, and that name is Pola Negri....

• Rivers of Łódź

  One question you might ask in a moment of rare contemplation is where the name Łódź came from....

• Fountain of Love

  Standing in the shadow of the Kościuszko statue on pl. Wolnośći (right in front of Café Wiedeńska) is Łódź’s favourite fountain....

• Eugeniusz Bodo

  One chap you’re unlikely to have heard of is Eugeniusz Bodo, the veteran of thirty films, and director of two....

• Rickshaws

  
  A relatively recent phenomena, rickshaws were first introduced to Łódź in 1993 and today you’ll find over a hundred pedaling breathlessly up and down ulica Piotrkowska....

• Jan Karski

  ‘Every government and church says, “We tried to help the Jews,” because they are ashamed, they want to keep their reputations....

• 1905 Revolution

  Mix a working class culture with a hatred for Imperial Russia and you get an volatile mix – and so it proved in 1905, when the people of Łódź rose in rebellion against their Russkie rulers....

• John Godson

  
  A Lodz success story can be found in local resident John Godson, Poland’s first black member of Parliament....

• Karl Dominik

  Lodz, as you’ll learn rattling through this guide, is a city of the cinema, a star of the silver screen....

• The industrialists

  ‘Łódź was waking up, the first yelling factory whistle pierced the quiet of the early morning, then in all parts of the city others began to spring up ever more raucously and bawled in hoarse voices like a choir of monstrous roosters crowing their metal throats the call to work....

• Jerzy Kosiński

  
  Born in Łódź, 1933, Jerzy Kosiński stands out as one of the 20th centuries great literary talents, with a life story every bit as sinister and dramatic as his books....

• Wall Fresco

  If you’re walking in the area of Piotrkowska 71 you probably won’t be the first person to get nailed to the floor bya zooming rickshaw....