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Are you planning a trip to Wroclaw? Do you want more information about the history and life of this extraordinary city - once German, now Polish - located within driving distance from Prague and Berlin? Are you looking for a way to get off the beaten path and explore Wroclaw at your own pace, but with reliable information?
Welcome to Wroclaw on Your Own, the website that offers FREE self-guided tours of the most interesting neighborhoods of Wroclaw. These guides have been prepared by students taking part in an international summer school in at the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw.
Wroclaw on Your Own will allow you to:
Read animated versions of the guides on-line
Download guides to your home computer
Learn more about the student projects that led to the creation of these self-guided tours in Wroclaw
Enjoy the website and enjoy Wroclaw - on your own!
The Project
The self-guided tours presented on Wroclaw on Your Own have been prepared by students of an international summer school on European urban transformation, Experiencing the New Europe. The summer school allows students to understand the underlying cultural, historic and social forces at play in the making of Central Europe by using the urban space of the city of Wroclaw as a laboratory in which they investigate the past and its impact on the present dynamics of a 21st century Central European metropolis in transition.
Methodologically, the project grows from the tradition of action research, which aims at transforming knowledge into practical social action. Therefore, the students, based on their interviews, site visits, observations, and exchange with academic experts, city officials, practitioners and regular inhabitants, all of whom are involved in the life of the city, produced these self-guided tours that will introduce important neighborhoods and urban spaces to future visitors to Wroclaw.
The summer school is organized by the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education of the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw in partnership with the State University of New York at Brockport.
Wroclaw is Poland's fourth largest city (640,000 inhabitants) and is located in the southwest of the country, not far from both the German and Czech borders. Whether in the colorful Market Square that never sleeps, on the solemn Cathedral Island, or under the dome of the modernist masterpiece of Centennial Hall, Wroclaw is steeped in history and full of charm. For tourists and students alike, Wroclaw is a magical cosmopolitan city that offers a fun and inspiring stay. Once a vibrant German metropolis almost totally annihilated during WWII, Wroclaw was later nearly entirely re-populated and rebuilt by Poles in the post-war era and today embodies a complex and multi-layered European identity.
Three self-guided tours prepared by students will allow visitors to explore the following neighborhoods of Wroclaw:
Wroclaw's Rynek
The Quarter of Mutual Respect
Centennial Hall and the Exhibition Grounds
Cathedral Island
Read the Guides
Wroclaw's Rynek
- The Heart of The Meeting Place
Wroclaw's Rynek
- The Heart of The Meeting Place
Wroclaw's Rynek
- The Heart of The Meeting Place
Ostrow Tumski
and The Origins of Wroclaw
Ostrow Tumski
and The Origins of Wroclaw
Ostrow Tumski
and The Origins of Wroclaw
A Path Through
The Quarter of Mutual Respect
A Path Through
The Quarter of Mutual Respect
A Path Through
The Quarter of Mutual Respect
Centennial Hall
and The Exhibition Grounds
Centennial Hall
and The Exhibition Grounds
Centennial Hall
and The Exhibition Grounds
Download
Here you can download pdf versions of the guides to help you plan your trip to Wroclaw. The guides are also available for purchase at the tourist information offices in the Wroclaw Market Square.
Wroclaw on Your Own and the self-guided tours are a part of the ongoing project of action research in urban spaces conducted by the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education at the University of Lower Silesia (Międzynarodowy Instytut Studiów nad Kulturą i Edukacją Dolnośląskiej Szkoły Wyższej). For more information visit: www.iisce.org.
Or contact us at:
The International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education (IISCE)
University of Lower Silesia (DSW)
ul. Wagonowa 9, room 31
53-609 Wroclaw, Poland
tel./fax: +48 71 358 27 58
e-mail: iisce@dswe.pl
The summer school is organized by the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education of the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw in partnership with the State University of New York at Brockport.
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