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Wrocław In Your Pocket

Wrocław In Your PocketWroclaw Old Town
Could you have picked a more epic, exciting time to be in Wrocław? Probably not.

The city of Wrocław has been anticipating this summer since 2007, when it helped Poland and Ukraine win its underdog bid to host Europe’s biggest football tournament, and has been steadily building momentum since. The airport just opened a snazzy new terminal. The train station has been fully modernised while retaining the glory of its original castle-like design, and is set to open at the end of May. A sparkling new, almost incandescent stadium has been built in Maślice, where it awaits sports glory. In the last few years Centennial Hall, Wrocław’s UNESCO-laurelled landmark, has been renovated, re-polished, and had an amazing multimedia fountain added to its picturesque pergola. As if the awe-inspiring and free hourly performances weren’t enough, this winter the Hall opened yet another attraction called Centrum Poznawcze (Discovery Centre) which, in addition to bringing the history and importance of this innovative architectural edifice to your fingertips, includes a spectacular light and sound show pulsing across the Hall’s inner dome. With all the hype surrounding Euro 2012 – which as you may have anticipated we have ably covered by giving it its own section – let’s spare a few lines for the other festivals on tap, literally, starting with May’s Fine Beer Festival and Jewish Festival (otherwise known as Simcha), followed by July’s Brave Festival celebrating forgotten cultures and the world-class New Horizons Film Festival (more on all of which you’ll find in our Events section). Have we even mentioned yet that its summer – the season of beautiful girls in beer gardens?

Clearly Wrocław is at the peak of its powers, which will no doubt be on full display during your very timely visit. Fortunately for you, we here at IYP are in our prime as well and have performed all the heavy lifting, happy hour heroics and dance hall hair whips (industry term: ‘research’) necessary to put the best guide to this game-on city into your hands. If you’re here for Euro 2012, make sure you check put our separate special edition Wrocław Euro 2012 Guide for Football Fans available in print (in English, Greek and Czech), online and mobile application for even more tips about the tournament. As always, let us know what you think by leaving comments about all the places you visit on our website and send us some love at editor_poland@inyourpocket.com. Enjoy Wrocław.

EURO 2012

With the EURO 2012 Football Championships coming up in June there has never been a better time to check out In Your Pocket's guides to the host cities. With over 20 years of experience in writing guides to the rapidly changing central European region we have all the most important information you might need to plan your trip. As the tournament approaches we will be continually updating all our information and keeping you up to date on what’s happening in each of the host cities – Warsaw, Gdańsk, Poznań and Wrocław in Poland and Kiev, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Lviv in Ukraine via our colleagues there.

The tournament promises to be a landmark event in the history of both nations while the visiting fan is promised a fascinating experience quite different from those you may have had at previous tournaments. In Your Pocket knows these countries like no other travel guide publisher. Let us help to make your visit as simple to organise and as enjoyable as possible once you are here.

The full Wrocław In Your Pocket city guide can be downloaded in PDF format for free and there is also an iPhone app available in the AppStore.

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A Bit About Wrocław to Begin:

With Kraków now confirmed as The New Prague the hunt is on for The New Kraków, and fingers are pointing towards Wrocław. Long regarded by those 'in the know' as Poland’s hidden gem the boom of the budget flight has meant that the secret has finally slipped out, and Wrocław has been well-and-truly discovered by the latter-day European traveller.

This is a city with a particularly enticing storyline: through the course of history it has gone under five names, been passed between four countries and seen the naughty end of both fascism and communism. Only sixty-odd years ago the city was a smoking ruin, flattened during one of the most savage sieges in modern history. You wouldn’t know it: this is one of the most engaging towns in Central Europe, and it’s not rare to find it compared to a condensed version of Prague. Gothic spires soar into the skyline and only three other European cities can boast more bridges. Dominated by canals and twisting cobbled streets Wrocław stands out as one of the undisputed highlights of Poland.

This is primarily a university town, and some 10% of the population pretend to study at some institute or other. The student body add a defiantly youthful streak to the city, and the blooming cultural scene and nightlife are direct results. But Wrocław’s appeal stretches beyond atmospheric bars and classical opera houses; the local government have shown an aggressive desire to return the city to its pre-war heyday, and an extensive program of restoration and regeneration have seen the town emerge as Poland’s most exciting city. Which probably goes some way to explaining why it has been selected as both a venue for Euro 2012 and as European Capital of Culture 2016. Find out more about the sights, the hotels, restaurants, bars & clubs and things to do all within these pages.

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