Wrocław’s not short on photo opportunities and one particular favourite is the two skinny buildings that connect ul. Św Mikołaja with ul. Odrzańska at the northwest corner of the market square (A-3). This pair of storybook tenements are commonly known as Hansel and Gretel (Jaś i Małgosia), apparently because the connecting archway is symbolic of a couple holding hands. Built in the 16th and 18th century respectively they are all that remain of the line of townhouses that once circled the cemetery of St. Elizabeth’s, and the archway is inscribed with a Latin motto proclaiming ‘Death is the gate to life’. The bas-relief we picture (photographed by Sco) can be spotted on the Jaś building, the smaller, less decorative of the two. Designed by Eugeniusz Get-Stankiewicz the work is a self-portrait and rather sensibly titled “Head in laurel wreath”. The artist himself is a bit of a local legend and commonly regarded as one of the key movers in 1960s Polish counter-culture. Since 1995 the house has also doubled as his studio, which he rents from the city for a token one groszy coin per month.