Łódź
Attractions in Łódź
Łódź's main attractions sit in a walkable core shaped by its textile history. In a single day you can see Manufaktura, a former mill complex turned shopping and culture site, walk the long shopping and cafe strip of Piotrkowska Street, and visit EC1 Łódź, an old power plant reborn as a science and film centre. Use this list to group nearby sights and plan your route before you set out. Weekends bring more people to Piotrkowska and Manufaktura, so start early if you prefer quieter streets.
All Attractions in Łódź
Attraction
Piotrkowska Street
One of the longest commercial streets in Europe, the four-kilometre spine of Łódź, lined with the facades of its textile-era barons.
Attraction
Manufaktura
A vast nineteenth-century textile mill converted into a cultural, dining and shopping quarter around a huge public square.
Attraction
EC1 Łódź
The city's first power station, converted into a hands-on science centre and one of Central Europe's most advanced planetariums.
Attraction
Księży Młyn
A preserved 19th-century factory district built as a city within a city, with red-brick mills, workers' terraces and the Scheibler palace.
Attraction
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
A Polish Orthodox cathedral in central Łódź, built in the 1880s in a Neo-Byzantine style and known for its colourful onion domes and a richly decorated iconostasis made in St. Petersburg.
Attraction
Archcathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus Kostka
A neo-Gothic cathedral at the southern end of ul. Piotrkowska, and at 104.5 metres the tallest building in Łódź.
Attraction
St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church
A large Lutheran church on Łódź's Piotrkowska Street, known for its domed architecture, marble altar and the organ concerts held here since 1996.
Attraction
Herbst Palace Museum
A restored neo-Renaissance villa in Łódź's Księży Młyn district, once home to the Herbst family, now a branch of the Muzeum Sztuki with period interiors and 19th-century art.
Attraction
Museum of Cinematography (Scheibler Palace)
Poland's only museum devoted to film history, set inside the opulent Karl Scheibler Palace in Łódź, the city nicknamed the Polish Hollywood.
Attraction
New Jewish Cemetery (Łódź)
A vast 19th-century Jewish cemetery in the Bałuty district of Łódź, holding monumental industrialists' tombs and the mass graves of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto.
Attraction
Radegast Station Memorial
A preserved railway station in northern Łódź that served as the main deportation point from the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, now a museum and memorial to the tens of thousands sent from here to Nazi extermination camps.
Attraction
Dętka Canal Museum
A short museum inside a 1926 brick sewer tank beneath Freedom Square in Łódź, where a 142-metre corridor tells the story of the city's early waterworks.
Attraction
Survivors' Park and Marek Edelman Dialogue Center
An 8.5-hectare memorial park in northern Łódź that honours those who survived the Łódź Ghetto, with 418 trees planted by survivors and a dialogue centre devoted to the city's wartime memory.
Attraction
Botanical Garden and Palm House (Palmiarnia), Łódź
Łódź's Botanical Garden is one of the largest in Poland, pairing 67 hectares of themed outdoor plantings with a modern Palm House that holds the country's tallest palms.
Attraction
Freedom Square (Plac Wolności)
Freedom Square is Łódź's octagonal historic plaza at the top of Piotrkowska Street, centred on a monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko and framed by the city's oldest civic buildings.
Attraction
Łódź Murals (Urban Forms Gallery)
Łódź holds the largest open-air mural gallery in Poland, with big-scale artworks painted across the walls of more than 170 buildings by Polish and international artists.
Attraction
Se-ma-for Animation Museum
A museum in central Łódź devoted to the Se-ma-for studio, home to original puppets, sets and props from classic Polish stop-motion films and the Oscar-winning Peter and the Wolf.