ATTRACTIONS IN THE AREA

One of the most famous streets in the country and at the same time Poland's longest promenade is the city's showpiece. The tenements and palaces along Piotrkowska Street house stores, restaurants, cafes, gardens, pubs and music clubs. Piotrkowska is bustling with life all year round and the fairs and festivals held along it, including the Light Move Festival and Songwriter Festival, add to its unique charm. While strolling along Piotrkowska Street, it is also worth taking a look at its renovated courtyards, including the one housing OFF Piotrkowska. It's also worth poking your head upwards, as the facades of the buildings on Piotrkowska Street are as full of interesting eclectic architectural details - caryatids, bas-reliefs, bay windows.... Look under your feet, too, and you will see the Avenue of Stars referring to the cinematic heritage of Lodz and the Monument to Lodzians - a strip of roadway paved with nearly 17,000 cobblestones with a cast-iron plate with the names and surnames of the founders. By the way, visit the tenement house at 37 Piotrkowska Street that we renovated, whose courtyard is one of the most photographed!

A cultural, entertainment and shopping center. It is a unique project on a European scale for the revitalization of the 19th century Israel Poznański factory. In addition to stores, Manufaktura houses, among others, an entertainment and recreation center, including a Cinema City cinema, a bowling alley, an artificial climbing wall, a fitness club, billiards and a games arcade. There is also a cultural complex: a branch of the Art Museum, the Fairytale Labyrinth Entertainment Center, the Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, the Factory Museum, the Experimentarium - Science Center, and a complex of about 60 restaurants and cafes. The center was built on the grounds of the former factory of Israel Poznanski in Lodz, one of Lodz's largest factory owners. The plots were purchased by Poznański in 1871 on the western side of the "New Town", along Ogrodowa Street. The factory is also known from the movie "Promised Land."

Address: 58 Drewnowska Street

OFF Piotrkowska is a multifunctional complex located in the former cotton factory of Franciszek Ramisch, built at the turn of the 20th century. Today it is the most fashionable address in Lodz - here you can find studios of fashion and design designers, music clubs, restaurants, exhibition spaces, rehearsal rooms, showrooms, concept stores, club cafes and much more. The complex won a poll for the 7 Wonders of Poland according to National Geographic Traveler magazine. After nationalization, it housed the Lodz Cotton Industry Spinning Mill and later the Gen. Walter Cotton Industry Plant. Since 1999, the factory buildings have been used by various companies, and in late 2011, the new owner of the site launched the OFF Piotrkowska Center project.

Address: 138/140 Piotrkowska Street

The public cultural institution EC1 Lodz was established as the architectural heir to Lodz's first commercial power plant. The unique complex, thanks to its diverse offer based on symbiosis with the world of new technologies and innovations, makes a visit to the center of Lodz one of the most interesting attractions available in this part of Europe. EC1 Łódź - City of Culture - is a cultural institution co-managed by the city of Łódź and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. The complex is located in the immediate vicinity of the Łódź Fabryczna railway station. The former EC1 houses the Science and Technology Center, the EC1 Planetarium, the Comics and Interactive Narrative Center, the National Film Culture Center and the Łódź Film Commission.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The EC1 Lodz Planetarium is the most modern in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. Under the dome with a diameter of 18 meters there is a spherical screen with a diameter of 14 meters, an advanced projection system with 8K resolution and 110 comfortable seats. In the mornings, the Planetarium is mainly visited by schools, in the afternoons there are activities related to popular science topics, and in the evenings artistic events or special shows are held under the dome. The first show was held on September 12, 2015, and was organized as part of a nationwide event to promote science - SPiN-Day. It was the culmination of many years of reconstruction of the EC1 Lodz complex and months of work by the planetarium's technical team. Almost exactly 108 years after the commissioning of the first electric turbine at 1 Targowa Street (which happened in September 1907), EC1 once again enchanted Lodz residents.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The artist Joanna Rajkowska is the author of the project at 3 Piotrkowska Street. Passage of Roses is a unique and personal realization, which refers to the illness of the artist's daughter Rosa. The realization of the project was very labor-intensive, as it involved pasting all the walls in the tenement's courtyard with pieces of mirrors cut into small pieces. The enormous amount of light that flooded the dark courtyard made the place something extremely shimmering, especially in the evenings and at night. The light-reflecting mosaic brings the surroundings to life, and the mirror fragments give seemingly mismatched and distorted images. However, this will only be an illusion due to the shattering of the mirrors, which symbolize a diseased retina. It is up to passersby to make the effort to reassemble the fragments of reality.

Address: 3 Piotrkowska Street

Orientarium in Lodz is a modern complex presenting the fauna and flora of Southeast Asia. The largest Indian elephant in Europe, a record-size gavial crocodile, critically endangered Sumatran orangutans in the wild, and an underwater tunnel from which you can admire sharks and stingrays swimming overhead - these are just some of the attractions you can enjoy at the facility. The building, enclosures and aviaries cover an area of almost 10 football fields. The solutions used allow the animals to be kept in large spaces in combination with other species and in a varied environment. Visitors can observe the Orientarium's inhabitants from three perspectives: underwater, land and from above. The Orientarium and the rest of the zoo are open to the public all year round, and animals do not have to be moved to breeding facilities during the cold season.

Address: 8/10 Konstantynowska Street

In the oldest Park Źródliska I in Lodz we can find a place full of warmth and unusual exoticism, where, at least for a moment, we will move to warm climate zones. We can be sure that at any time of the year a walk through the Palm House will provide many pleasant impressions. The exotic collection of plants reflects the history of Lodz, and was started by Lodz factory owners. The oldest plants are more than 150-year-old palm trees. They are complemented by magnificent banana trees, araucarias, bamboos and fig trees. Under the magnificent crowns of dozens of plants a place has been found for orchids, bromeliads, begonias, ferns and crotons. Since late spring we can additionally get acquainted with dozens of species of plants growing in the didactic garden, which is considered the first Botanical Garden in Lodz.

Address: al. marsz. Jozef Pilsudski 61

The Avenue of Stars of the Lodz Walk of Fame - for that is the full name - currently has more than 90 stars, and the number is constantly growing. On the even (eastern) side of the avenue are stars of directors, cinematographers, film music creators - basically, filmmakers not appearing on screen, while on the odd side are stars commemorating actors. The avenue is located on Piotrkowska Street in the section between 6 Sierpnia and Traugutta streets and in the Rubinstein Passage.

Address: Piotrkowska Street - between 6 Sierpnia and Gen. Romuald Traugutta streets, and Arthur Rubinstein Passage and Stanislaw Moniuszko Street

Walking along Lodz's promenade, it's worth turning into Więckowskiego Street, where the sign above the gate at number 4 reads "NARODZINY DNIA". Stepping inside, you will be transported into a fairy-tale world of fantasy. An innovative technique, which cannot be found anywhere else in the world, was used to transfer the works to the facades. The paintings were placed on 260 custom-made stoneware tiles by Tubądzin Ceramics (Lodz Province). The largest of them measures 2 square meters, and the smallest measures 25 square centimeters. Meanwhile, the entire installation covers a total area of 350 square meters.

Address: 4 Więckowskiego Street

Arlekin was founded in 1948 by Henryk Ryle - a director, puppeteer, community activist and educator. At first it was located at 150 Piotrkowska Street, to move nine years later to a beautiful Art Nouveau building built in 1902 at the intersection of Wólczańska Street and 1 Maja Avenue. From the very beginning, Arlekin has strived to satisfy the expectations of lovers of puppet art to the fullest - the youngest ones, but also those of adults. The theater makes sure to introduce children to the fairy tale canon, and at the same time tries to talk about the reality around us in a contemporary way. Arlekin's repertoire also includes plays for adult audiences and shows performed in English, making it a foreigner-friendly venue. It specializes in performances using a variety of animation techniques. Here, the play of puppets (marionettes, javelinas, puppets, etc.) is combined with the play of actors in a live set.

Address: 5 Wólczanska Street

The walls of many Lodz buildings are decorated with murals, thus creating Poland's largest outdoor urban gallery. Its creators are well-known street art artists from Poland (including Proembrion, M-City, Etam), as well as abroad (including Osgemeos, Eduardo Kobra, Inti, Aryz, Remed). Murals have been created for years as part of the Urban Forms Gallery Festival and previously the International Graffiti Festival, among others. Contemporary outdoor urban gallery is not only graffiti, but also various installations on the walls of buildings - made of rods, car parts, fragments of mirrors and even moss. One of the first contemporary murals in Lodz, painted in 2001 by the Lodz art group Design Futura at 152 Piotrkowska Street, was entered in the Guinness Book of Records and for a time was the largest graffiti in the world.

Aquapark FALA is one of the largest water parks, which consists of a swimming pool area, sauna area and spa & wellness area. Outdoor and indoor pools, including a pool with an artificial wave, Poland's tallest water slide Kamikaze, as many as 8 types of saunas, pools and brine baths, jacuzzi, water massages, rope bridge, salt graduation tower, snow grotto, massages, playgrounds, naturist beach, drink bars, restaurants - all this is located in the heart of Lodz. FALA is a unique place, both in terms of architecture and available attractions.

The Saunarium features the following saunas: Finnish, Finnish with music therapy, Finnish with salt, small Finnish outdoor, large Finnish outdoor, infrared, steam with chromotherapy, crystal steam, snow grotto, salt graduation tower, outdoor Jacuzzi, large indoor Jacuzzi and tepidarium.

Address: al. Unii Lubelskiej 4

One of the most famous streets in the country and at the same time Poland's longest promenade is the city's showpiece. The tenements and palaces along Piotrkowska Street house stores, restaurants, cafes, gardens, pubs and music clubs. Piotrkowska is bustling with life all year round and the fairs and festivals held along it, including the Light Move Festival and Songwriter Festival, add to its unique charm. While strolling along Piotrkowska Street, it is also worth taking a look at its renovated courtyards, including the one housing OFF Piotrkowska. It's also worth poking your head upwards, as the facades of the buildings on Piotrkowska Street are as full of interesting eclectic architectural details - caryatids, bas-reliefs, bay windows.... Look under your feet, too, and you will see the Avenue of Stars referring to the cinematic heritage of Lodz and the Monument to Lodzians - a strip of roadway paved with nearly 17,000 cobblestones with a cast-iron plate with the names and surnames of the founders. By the way, visit the tenement house at 37 Piotrkowska Street that we renovated, whose courtyard is one of the most photographed!

A cultural, entertainment and shopping center. It is a unique project on a European scale for the revitalization of the 19th century Israel Poznański factory. In addition to stores, Manufaktura houses, among others, an entertainment and recreation center, including a Cinema City cinema, a bowling alley, an artificial climbing wall, a fitness club, billiards and a games arcade. There is also a cultural complex: a branch of the Art Museum, the Fairytale Labyrinth Entertainment Center, the Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, the Factory Museum, the Experimentarium - Science Center, and a complex of about 60 restaurants and cafes. The center was built on the grounds of the former factory of Israel Poznanski in Lodz, one of Lodz's largest factory owners. The plots were purchased by Poznański in 1871 on the western side of the "New Town", along Ogrodowa Street. The factory is also known from the movie "Promised Land."

Address: 58 Drewnowska Street

OFF Piotrkowska is a multifunctional complex located in the former cotton factory of Franciszek Ramisch, built at the turn of the 20th century. Today it is the most fashionable address in Lodz - here you can find studios of fashion and design designers, music clubs, restaurants, exhibition spaces, rehearsal rooms, showrooms, concept stores, club cafes and much more. The complex won a poll for the 7 Wonders of Poland according to National Geographic Traveler magazine. After nationalization, it housed the Lodz Cotton Industry Spinning Mill and later the Gen. Walter Cotton Industry Plant. Since 1999, the factory buildings have been used by various companies, and in late 2011, the new owner of the site launched the OFF Piotrkowska Center project.

Address: 138/140 Piotrkowska Street

The public cultural institution EC1 Lodz was established as the architectural heir to Lodz's first commercial power plant. The unique complex, thanks to its diverse offer based on symbiosis with the world of new technologies and innovations, makes a visit to the center of Lodz one of the most interesting attractions available in this part of Europe. EC1 Łódź - City of Culture - is a cultural institution co-managed by the city of Łódź and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. The complex is located in the immediate vicinity of the Łódź Fabryczna railway station. The former EC1 houses the Science and Technology Center, the EC1 Planetarium, the Comics and Interactive Narrative Center, the National Film Culture Center and the Łódź Film Commission.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The EC1 Lodz Planetarium is the most modern in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. Under the dome with a diameter of 18 meters there is a spherical screen with a diameter of 14 meters, an advanced projection system with 8K resolution and 110 comfortable seats. In the mornings, the Planetarium is mainly visited by schools, in the afternoons there are activities related to popular science topics, and in the evenings artistic events or special shows are held under the dome. The first show was held on September 12, 2015, and was organized as part of a nationwide event to promote science - SPiN-Day. It was the culmination of many years of reconstruction of the EC1 Lodz complex and months of work by the planetarium's technical team. Almost exactly 108 years after the commissioning of the first electric turbine at 1 Targowa Street (which happened in September 1907), EC1 once again enchanted Lodz residents.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The artist Joanna Rajkowska is the author of the project at 3 Piotrkowska Street. Passage of Roses is a unique and personal realization, which refers to the illness of the artist's daughter Rosa. The realization of the project was very labor-intensive, as it involved pasting all the walls in the tenement's courtyard with pieces of mirrors cut into small pieces. The enormous amount of light that flooded the dark courtyard made the place something extremely shimmering, especially in the evenings and at night. The light-reflecting mosaic brings the surroundings to life, and the mirror fragments give seemingly mismatched and distorted images. However, this will only be an illusion due to the shattering of the mirrors, which symbolize a diseased retina. It is up to passersby to make the effort to reassemble the fragments of reality.

Address: 3 Piotrkowska Street

Orientarium in Lodz is a modern complex presenting the fauna and flora of Southeast Asia. The largest Indian elephant in Europe, a record-size gavial crocodile, critically endangered Sumatran orangutans in the wild, and an underwater tunnel from which you can admire sharks and stingrays swimming overhead - these are just some of the attractions you can enjoy at the facility. The building, enclosures and aviaries cover an area of almost 10 football fields. The solutions used allow the animals to be kept in large spaces in combination with other species and in a varied environment. Visitors can observe the Orientarium's inhabitants from three perspectives: underwater, land and from above. The Orientarium and the rest of the zoo are open to the public all year round, and animals do not have to be moved to breeding facilities during the cold season.

Address: 8/10 Konstantynowska Street

In the oldest Park Źródliska I in Lodz we can find a place full of warmth and unusual exoticism, where, at least for a moment, we will move to warm climate zones. We can be sure that at any time of the year a walk through the Palm House will provide many pleasant impressions. The exotic collection of plants reflects the history of Lodz, and was started by Lodz factory owners. The oldest plants are more than 150-year-old palm trees. They are complemented by magnificent banana trees, araucarias, bamboos and fig trees. Under the magnificent crowns of dozens of plants a place has been found for orchids, bromeliads, begonias, ferns and crotons. Since late spring we can additionally get acquainted with dozens of species of plants growing in the didactic garden, which is considered the first Botanical Garden in Lodz.

Address: al. marsz. Jozef Pilsudski 61

The Avenue of Stars of the Lodz Walk of Fame - for that is the full name - currently has more than 90 stars, and the number is constantly growing. On the even (eastern) side of the avenue are stars of directors, cinematographers, film music creators - basically, filmmakers not appearing on screen, while on the odd side are stars commemorating actors. The avenue is located on Piotrkowska Street in the section between 6 Sierpnia and Traugutta streets and in the Rubinstein Passage.

Address: Piotrkowska Street - between 6 Sierpnia and Gen. Romuald Traugutta streets, and Arthur Rubinstein Passage and Stanislaw Moniuszko Street

Walking along Lodz's promenade, it's worth turning into Więckowskiego Street, where the sign above the gate at number 4 reads "NARODZINY DNIA". Stepping inside, you will be transported into a fairy-tale world of fantasy. An innovative technique, which cannot be found anywhere else in the world, was used to transfer the works to the facades. The paintings were placed on 260 custom-made stoneware tiles by Tubądzin Ceramics (Lodz Province). The largest of them measures 2 square meters, and the smallest measures 25 square centimeters. Meanwhile, the entire installation covers a total area of 350 square meters.

Address: 4 Więckowskiego Street

Arlekin was founded in 1948 by Henryk Ryle - a director, puppeteer, community activist and educator. At first it was located at 150 Piotrkowska Street, to move nine years later to a beautiful Art Nouveau building built in 1902 at the intersection of Wólczańska Street and 1 Maja Avenue. From the very beginning, Arlekin has strived to satisfy the expectations of lovers of puppet art to the fullest - the youngest ones, but also those of adults. The theater makes sure to introduce children to the fairy tale canon, and at the same time tries to talk about the reality around us in a contemporary way. Arlekin's repertoire also includes plays for adult audiences and shows performed in English, making it a foreigner-friendly venue. It specializes in performances using a variety of animation techniques. Here, the play of puppets (marionettes, javelinas, puppets, etc.) is combined with the play of actors in a live set.

Address: 5 Wólczanska Street

The walls of many Lodz buildings are decorated with murals, thus creating Poland's largest outdoor urban gallery. Its creators are well-known street art artists from Poland (including Proembrion, M-City, Etam), as well as abroad (including Osgemeos, Eduardo Kobra, Inti, Aryz, Remed). Murals have been created for years as part of the Urban Forms Gallery Festival and previously the International Graffiti Festival, among others. Contemporary outdoor urban gallery is not only graffiti, but also various installations on the walls of buildings - made of rods, car parts, fragments of mirrors and even moss. One of the first contemporary murals in Lodz, painted in 2001 by the Lodz art group Design Futura at 152 Piotrkowska Street, was entered in the Guinness Book of Records and for a time was the largest graffiti in the world.

Aquapark FALA is one of the largest water parks, which consists of a swimming pool area, sauna area and spa & wellness area. Outdoor and indoor pools, including a pool with an artificial wave, Poland's tallest water slide Kamikaze, as many as 8 types of saunas, pools and brine baths, jacuzzi, water massages, rope bridge, salt graduation tower, snow grotto, massages, playgrounds, naturist beach, drink bars, restaurants - all this is located in the heart of Lodz. FALA is a unique place, both in terms of architecture and available attractions.

The Saunarium features the following saunas: Finnish, Finnish with music therapy, Finnish with salt, small Finnish outdoor, large Finnish outdoor, infrared, steam with chromotherapy, crystal steam, snow grotto, salt graduation tower, outdoor Jacuzzi, large indoor Jacuzzi and tepidarium.

Address: al. Unii Lubelskiej 4

One of the most famous streets in the country and at the same time Poland's longest promenade is the city's showpiece. The tenements and palaces along Piotrkowska Street house stores, restaurants, cafes, gardens, pubs and music clubs. Piotrkowska is bustling with life all year round and the fairs and festivals held along it, including the Light Move Festival and Songwriter Festival, add to its unique charm. While strolling along Piotrkowska Street, it is also worth taking a look at its renovated courtyards, including the one housing OFF Piotrkowska. It's also worth poking your head upwards, as the facades of the buildings on Piotrkowska Street are as full of interesting eclectic architectural details - caryatids, bas-reliefs, bay windows.... Look under your feet, too, and you will see the Avenue of Stars referring to the cinematic heritage of Lodz and the Monument to Lodzians - a strip of roadway paved with nearly 17,000 cobblestones with a cast-iron plate with the names and surnames of the founders. By the way, visit the tenement house at 37 Piotrkowska Street that we renovated, whose courtyard is one of the most photographed!

A cultural, entertainment and shopping center. It is a unique project on a European scale for the revitalization of the 19th century Israel Poznański factory. In addition to stores, Manufaktura houses, among others, an entertainment and recreation center, including a Cinema City cinema, a bowling alley, an artificial climbing wall, a fitness club, billiards and a games arcade. There is also a cultural complex: a branch of the Art Museum, the Fairytale Labyrinth Entertainment Center, the Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, the Factory Museum, the Experimentarium - Science Center, and a complex of about 60 restaurants and cafes. The center was built on the grounds of the former factory of Israel Poznanski in Lodz, one of Lodz's largest factory owners. The plots were purchased by Poznański in 1871 on the western side of the "New Town", along Ogrodowa Street. The factory is also known from the movie "Promised Land."

Address: 58 Drewnowska Street

OFF Piotrkowska is a multifunctional complex located in the former cotton factory of Franciszek Ramisch, built at the turn of the 20th century. Today it is the most fashionable address in Lodz - here you can find studios of fashion and design designers, music clubs, restaurants, exhibition spaces, rehearsal rooms, showrooms, concept stores, club cafes and much more. The complex won a poll for the 7 Wonders of Poland according to National Geographic Traveler magazine. After nationalization, it housed the Lodz Cotton Industry Spinning Mill and later the Gen. Walter Cotton Industry Plant. Since 1999, the factory buildings have been used by various companies, and in late 2011, the new owner of the site launched the OFF Piotrkowska Center project.

Address: 138/140 Piotrkowska Street

The public cultural institution EC1 Lodz was established as the architectural heir to Lodz's first commercial power plant. The unique complex, thanks to its diverse offer based on symbiosis with the world of new technologies and innovations, makes a visit to the center of Lodz one of the most interesting attractions available in this part of Europe. EC1 Łódź - City of Culture - is a cultural institution co-managed by the city of Łódź and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. The complex is located in the immediate vicinity of the Łódź Fabryczna railway station. The former EC1 houses the Science and Technology Center, the EC1 Planetarium, the Comics and Interactive Narrative Center, the National Film Culture Center and the Łódź Film Commission.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The EC1 Lodz Planetarium is the most modern in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. Under the dome with a diameter of 18 meters there is a spherical screen with a diameter of 14 meters, an advanced projection system with 8K resolution and 110 comfortable seats. In the mornings, the Planetarium is mainly visited by schools, in the afternoons there are activities related to popular science topics, and in the evenings artistic events or special shows are held under the dome. The first show was held on September 12, 2015, and was organized as part of a nationwide event to promote science - SPiN-Day. It was the culmination of many years of reconstruction of the EC1 Lodz complex and months of work by the planetarium's technical team. Almost exactly 108 years after the commissioning of the first electric turbine at 1 Targowa Street (which happened in September 1907), EC1 once again enchanted Lodz residents.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The artist Joanna Rajkowska is the author of the project at 3 Piotrkowska Street. Passage of Roses is a unique and personal realization, which refers to the illness of the artist's daughter Rosa. The realization of the project was very labor-intensive, as it involved pasting all the walls in the tenement's courtyard with pieces of mirrors cut into small pieces. The enormous amount of light that flooded the dark courtyard made the place something extremely shimmering, especially in the evenings and at night. The light-reflecting mosaic brings the surroundings to life, and the mirror fragments give seemingly mismatched and distorted images. However, this will only be an illusion due to the shattering of the mirrors, which symbolize a diseased retina. It is up to passersby to make the effort to reassemble the fragments of reality.

Address: 3 Piotrkowska Street

Orientarium in Lodz is a modern complex presenting the fauna and flora of Southeast Asia. The largest Indian elephant in Europe, a record-size gavial crocodile, critically endangered Sumatran orangutans in the wild, and an underwater tunnel from which you can admire sharks and stingrays swimming overhead - these are just some of the attractions you can enjoy at the facility. The building, enclosures and aviaries cover an area of almost 10 football fields. The solutions used allow the animals to be kept in large spaces in combination with other species and in a varied environment. Visitors can observe the Orientarium's inhabitants from three perspectives: underwater, land and from above. The Orientarium and the rest of the zoo are open to the public all year round, and animals do not have to be moved to breeding facilities during the cold season.

Address: 8/10 Konstantynowska Street

In the oldest Park Źródliska I in Lodz we can find a place full of warmth and unusual exoticism, where, at least for a moment, we will move to warm climate zones. We can be sure that at any time of the year a walk through the Palm House will provide many pleasant impressions. The exotic collection of plants reflects the history of Lodz, and was started by Lodz factory owners. The oldest plants are more than 150-year-old palm trees. They are complemented by magnificent banana trees, araucarias, bamboos and fig trees. Under the magnificent crowns of dozens of plants a place has been found for orchids, bromeliads, begonias, ferns and crotons. Since late spring we can additionally get acquainted with dozens of species of plants growing in the didactic garden, which is considered the first Botanical Garden in Lodz.

Address: al. marsz. Jozef Pilsudski 61

The Avenue of Stars of the Lodz Walk of Fame - for that is the full name - currently has more than 90 stars, and the number is constantly growing. On the even (eastern) side of the avenue are stars of directors, cinematographers, film music creators - basically, filmmakers not appearing on screen, while on the odd side are stars commemorating actors. The avenue is located on Piotrkowska Street in the section between 6 Sierpnia and Traugutta streets and in the Rubinstein Passage.

Address: Piotrkowska Street - between 6 Sierpnia and Gen. Romuald Traugutta streets, and Arthur Rubinstein Passage and Stanislaw Moniuszko Street

Walking along Lodz's promenade, it's worth turning into Więckowskiego Street, where the sign above the gate at number 4 reads "NARODZINY DNIA". Stepping inside, you will be transported into a fairy-tale world of fantasy. An innovative technique, which cannot be found anywhere else in the world, was used to transfer the works to the facades. The paintings were placed on 260 custom-made stoneware tiles by Tubądzin Ceramics (Lodz Province). The largest of them measures 2 square meters, and the smallest measures 25 square centimeters. Meanwhile, the entire installation covers a total area of 350 square meters.

Address: 4 Więckowskiego Street

Arlekin was founded in 1948 by Henryk Ryle - a director, puppeteer, community activist and educator. At first it was located at 150 Piotrkowska Street, to move nine years later to a beautiful Art Nouveau building built in 1902 at the intersection of Wólczańska Street and 1 Maja Avenue. From the very beginning, Arlekin has strived to satisfy the expectations of lovers of puppet art to the fullest - the youngest ones, but also those of adults. The theater makes sure to introduce children to the fairy tale canon, and at the same time tries to talk about the reality around us in a contemporary way. Arlekin's repertoire also includes plays for adult audiences and shows performed in English, making it a foreigner-friendly venue. It specializes in performances using a variety of animation techniques. Here, the play of puppets (marionettes, javelinas, puppets, etc.) is combined with the play of actors in a live set.

Address: 5 Wólczanska Street

The walls of many Lodz buildings are decorated with murals, thus creating Poland's largest outdoor urban gallery. Its creators are well-known street art artists from Poland (including Proembrion, M-City, Etam), as well as abroad (including Osgemeos, Eduardo Kobra, Inti, Aryz, Remed). Murals have been created for years as part of the Urban Forms Gallery Festival and previously the International Graffiti Festival, among others. Contemporary outdoor urban gallery is not only graffiti, but also various installations on the walls of buildings - made of rods, car parts, fragments of mirrors and even moss. One of the first contemporary murals in Lodz, painted in 2001 by the Lodz art group Design Futura at 152 Piotrkowska Street, was entered in the Guinness Book of Records and for a time was the largest graffiti in the world.

Aquapark FALA is one of the largest water parks, which consists of a swimming pool area, sauna area and spa & wellness area. Outdoor and indoor pools, including a pool with an artificial wave, Poland's tallest water slide Kamikaze, as many as 8 types of saunas, pools and brine baths, jacuzzi, water massages, rope bridge, salt graduation tower, snow grotto, massages, playgrounds, naturist beach, drink bars, restaurants - all this is located in the heart of Lodz. FALA is a unique place, both in terms of architecture and available attractions.

The Saunarium features the following saunas: Finnish, Finnish with music therapy, Finnish with salt, small Finnish outdoor, large Finnish outdoor, infrared, steam with chromotherapy, crystal steam, snow grotto, salt graduation tower, outdoor Jacuzzi, large indoor Jacuzzi and tepidarium.

Address: al. Unii Lubelskiej 4

Park Źródliska I and Park Źródliska II are the oldest parks in Lodz. They used to form a single park called the Walking Garden, as well as the English Garden, which was established in 1840 and was the only city park until 1875. At that time, part of the forest of the government forestry of Laznów was incorporated into the boundaries of Lodz. "New District" was divided into building plots, an area was designated for a marketplace called Water Market (now Victory Square), and a section was also left for the establishment of a garden. At that time, the park had a forest character, overgrown with alders, hornbeams, oaks, lindens and spruces, only the sides were planted with fruit trees, the area abounded in springs, and its ground was muddy. Two main pedestrian avenues running diagonally, intersecting at the central point of the park, were laid out in its area. In the late 1840s, a dozen benches were erected in the park, several bridges and 2 gazebos were made, and a gardener was hired to take care of the park on a permanent basis.

Address: The park has an area of 17.2 hectares, located within the boundaries of Przędzalniana, Fabryczna, Targowa and Pilsudski streets

The Stanislaw Moniuszko Park in Lodz (formerly Railway Park or Railway Garden; in Yiddish called Koligurtn), is the second oldest park in Lodz and was created in 1875 as a public square (later called Railway Park) for people using the Lodz Fabryczna railroad station, whose building was erected in 1868. There was a forest in the area of today's park, so there was a need to build paths leading to the station. The first plans for the park were made by city architect Hilary Majewski. It was the second park in Lodz (the first was the "Źródliska" park, established in 1840). In the park there is a natural monument: a common beech tree. In 2000, specialized maintenance was carried out on the oldest trees in this park, and in 2019-2020 the park underwent a revitalization, which included the renovation of alleys, new urban furniture, plantings, the construction of a playground and the enlargement of the park by about 600 m².

Address: The park with an area of 2.3 hectares, located within Składowa, Kilińskiego, Narutowicza and Polska Organizacja Wojskowa streets

Park named after Henryk Sienkiewicza was created as the third public park in Łódź in 1875. The park was opened to the inhabitants of Łódź in 1899 and was originally called the "Mikołajewski Municipal Garden", as indicated by a commemorative plaque mounted on a stone at the gate on the western side. Since 1916, the park has been named after Henryk Sienkiewicz, awarded to him after the writer's death. From the side of the street Sienkiewicza park has the character of a French park with symmetrical flower parters, facing the street. Kilińskiego street has a landscape character (English) with wide alleys among trees and bushes. In June 2009, the first place in the city was established in Sienkiewicz Park where you can freely express your views - including organizing rallies, debates and meetings of more than 15 people without obtaining special permits. The idea of the place is modeled on London's Hyde Park. On October 10, 2012, the Plastuś monument, the fifth sculpture created as part of the Łódź Bajkowa tourist trail, was unveiled in Sienkiewicz Park.

Address: Park with an area of 5.2 ha, located within Kilińskiego, Sienkiewicza and Tuwima streets

Stanislaw Staszic Park was established in 1901 as the fourth city park in Lodz. Initially, the park was referred to as the Garden on Dzielna Street or the City Park on Dzielna Street - it received its current name in 1918. In 1912, on the occasion of the Craft and Industrial Exhibition, the Labor Monument ("symbol of the city of labor") was erected in the park, and after the park was named after Stanislaw Staszic, a monument to the patron was erected there, financed by the Technicians Association - both monuments were destroyed during World War II. A new monument to Staszic by Kazimierz Karpinski was unveiled in 1984 during the Congress of Technicians of the Supreme Technical Organization. Stanislaw Staszic is considered by Lodz residents to be one of the "fathers of the city" - people who made a special contribution to the development of Lodz. In 1912 a concert shell was also built in the park - later converted into a summer theater (the building no longer exists). In the park there are four trees and two erratic boulders established as monuments of nature.

Address: The park has an area of 4.1 hectares, located within Narutowicza, Uniwersytecka, Jaracza and Wierzbowa streets

The history of Helens Park begins with three brothers, i.e. Ludwig, Zenon and Frederick, who, after the death of their father Karol Anstadt (1874) and taking over the management of the brewery existing right next door, decided to establish a park. Later Karol Anstadt junior also joined the originators. In 1881, all four obtained permission from the authorities to build the park, which was named Helenow after the wives of the brothers - Ludwig (Helena née Nestler) and Zenon (Helena née Lemm). Among the park's attractions were ponds with a boat landing, water features and a stone cascade on the escarpment, rose avenues, an animal sanctuary (arranged in March 1890, where one could see a pair of bears, a trained chimpanzee, deer, fallow deer, roe deer, wild boar and hares), a volcanic lava grotto, terraces, rich flowerbeds, a concert shell, a cycling track, tennis courts and a playground. An avenue planted with pear trees, later converted to red oaks and maples, led from the entrance to the park's interior.

Address: Park with an area of 12 hectares, located between North, Spring and Smug streets

Staromiejski Park (so-called Herring Park) - is colloquially called so by Lodz residents probably from the fish market located here before World War II. It was built between 1951 and 1953, designed by K. Chrabelski. The place where the park is located was a water reservoir almost until the end of the 19th century (the so-called Pond on the Łódka River). When the reservoir was drained and the river flowing there was included in the canal, the area was closely built up. The area was inhabited primarily by followers of Judaism. A large synagogue, the so-called Altstedt, stood at the northern edge of today's park. In 1941, the occupation authorities decided to demolish some of the buildings, intending to outline the southern boundary of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. After the war, it was decided to create a green area in this area. The park has a pond on the Łódka River, a sculpture by Henryk Burzec, a sculpture of the Year-round Sundial and a monument to the Decalogue (Moses), a fountain, a monument to Aleksander Kamiński and chess tables.

Address: Park with an area of 17 hectares, located between Zachodnia, Ogrodowa, Północna, Franciszkańska and Wolborska Streets, divided by Nowomiejska Street

Park na Zdrowiu, is a historic and the largest park in Lodz, extending over an area of 188.21 hectares. The park was created on land that once belonged to the city's forests. The first concept of developing the area as a park dates back to 1904 and belonged to Teodor Chrzanski (the creator of Poniatowski Park and Sienkiewicz Park), but it was never realized. All concepts sought to preserve the remnants of the remaining forest and designate areas for sports and recreation. The park has retained this character to this day. Initial work on developing the park began in the 1920s. By 1928, nearly 300,000 trees had been planted in the area, ponds had been dug and work on sports areas had begun. In the 1930s, a zoo was laid out, and construction of a stadium, a Jordanian garden, a shooting range and a parachute tower was completed.

Address: Park with an area of 188.2 hectares, located in the area of Union Lubelska Avenue and Srebrzynska, Krakowska, Krzemieniecka and Konstantynowska streets

The Prince Jozef Poniatowski Park was developed in 1904-1910 to a design by Teodor Chrzansky and Walerian Kornenberg, 1910 on the initiative of the city authorities, on the grounds of the former city forests, reaching much further north than the present park (it included, among other things, the grounds of the present hospital, church and film studio). It is one of the largest and most beautiful parks in Lodz. The former name was "Garden on Panska Street." Since 1917 the park has been named after Prince Poniatowski. The park has an original spatial plan, symmetrical and regular, with alleys, nooks, lawns. The park plan combined elements of a natural English park and a French park shaped by the hand of a gardener. The tree stand is very diverse. In the park there are 14 trees recognized as monuments of nature, and the entire park is listed in the register of monuments. Particularly noteworthy are: Japanese pearls, black hawthorn, Swedish rowan, savina juniper. A peculiarity is the triglycerium, which can be admired near Meadow Street.

Address: Park with an area of 41.6 hectares, located between Żeromskiego, Mickiewicza, Jana Pawła II and Parkowa streets

The 3 Maja Park is a historic park, which was established in 1915 the park is a remnant of the city forest, which was part of the Lodz Forest in the past. The former city forest occupied an area three times larger than today: from the south it reached as far as Rokicinskaya Street. During World War I, most of the trees located south of the railroad line, which was routed in 1864, fell victim to residents seeking firewood. After the war ended, the remnant of the forest lying north of the tracks was transformed into a park. Today, the park has similar functions as when it was established: numerous sports facilities (tennis courts, 4 football fields, a running track) and recreational facilities (including a traffic town), as well as walking alleys bustle with life, being a place of rest and recreation for local residents. Two trees recognized as monuments of nature grow there.

Address: The park has an area of 23.5 hectares, located in the area of Kopcińskiego and Malachowskiego streets.

Julianowski Park is a historic park located in a depression, stretching along the valley of the Sokolowka River. Probably in the Middle Ages there was a wooden fortified settlement here. Later the village belonged to a small noble estate. In the 1880s, the estate was purchased by the Lodz factory owner Julius Heinzel (the name of the park derives from his name) and around 1890 he built here for the sum of 60,000 rubles a palace inspired by the forms of the Italian Renaissance, overlooking the ponds. Next to the palace was a game preserve and orchard. The park was then reconstructed, including the construction of numerous stairs, fountains, cascades, bridges and the planting of many exotic trees. In Mickiewicz Park there are twenty trees listed as monuments of nature (such as the oak "Kosynier"). In the 1950s the existing ponds were rebuilt and regulated, giving them their present appearance. Their axis is the Sokolowka River. The concert shell, built by the Department of Culture of the City of Lodz, also dates from this period.

Address: A park with an area of 49.4 hectares, located in the Julianow estate, within Zgierska, Sowińskiego, Jaworowa, Folwarczna, al. Róż, Karłowicza streets

The history of Klepacz Park is linked to the history of the Richter family, Lodz factory owners. Built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the representative residences of the industrialists were surrounded by ornamental gardens, which today form a park. The date of its creation is considered to be 1904 - the date placed on the decorative entrance gate to the Rheinhold Richter residence from Skorupki Street. Of the trees growing in the park, as many as 24 have been declared monuments of nature, among them the 19th-century Fabrykant oak with powerful, spreading branches (trunk circumference of 455 cm, crown span of more than 30 m) - a rare tree of such shape and size. The biodiversity of the park is quite large - 70 taxa (species and varieties), including 46 trees and shrubs. A special peculiarity of the park is the Siberian onion, which in early spring covers the lawns with patches of azure-blue flowers. It is the only place in Poland among urban parks with such a large concentration of these plants. The park is home to two historic villas, Reinhold Richter and Jozef Richter.

Address: The park has an area of 3.3 hectares, located between Wólczanska, Skorupki and Politechniki avenues

Park Źródliska I and Park Źródliska II are the oldest parks in Lodz. They used to form a single park called the Walking Garden, as well as the English Garden, which was established in 1840 and was the only city park until 1875. At that time, part of the forest of the government forestry of Laznów was incorporated into the boundaries of Lodz. "New District" was divided into building plots, an area was designated for a marketplace called Water Market (now Victory Square), and a section was also left for the establishment of a garden. At that time, the park had a forest character, overgrown with alders, hornbeams, oaks, lindens and spruces, only the sides were planted with fruit trees, the area abounded in springs, and its ground was muddy. Two main pedestrian avenues running diagonally, intersecting at the central point of the park, were laid out in its area. In the late 1840s, a dozen benches were erected in the park, several bridges and 2 gazebos were made, and a gardener was hired to take care of the park on a permanent basis.

Address: The park has an area of 17.2 hectares, located within the boundaries of Przędzalniana, Fabryczna, Targowa and Pilsudski streets

The Stanislaw Moniuszko Park in Lodz (formerly Railway Park or Railway Garden; in Yiddish called Koligurtn), is the second oldest park in Lodz and was created in 1875 as a public square (later called Railway Park) for people using the Lodz Fabryczna railroad station, whose building was erected in 1868. There was a forest in the area of today's park, so there was a need to build paths leading to the station. The first plans for the park were made by city architect Hilary Majewski. It was the second park in Lodz (the first was the "Źródliska" park, established in 1840). In the park there is a natural monument: a common beech tree. In 2000, specialized maintenance was carried out on the oldest trees in this park, and in 2019-2020 the park underwent a revitalization, which included the renovation of alleys, new urban furniture, plantings, the construction of a playground and the enlargement of the park by about 600 m².

Address: The park with an area of 2.3 hectares, located within Składowa, Kilińskiego, Narutowicza and Polska Organizacja Wojskowa streets

Park named after Henryk Sienkiewicza was created as the third public park in Łódź in 1875. The park was opened to the inhabitants of Łódź in 1899 and was originally called the "Mikołajewski Municipal Garden", as indicated by a commemorative plaque mounted on a stone at the gate on the western side. Since 1916, the park has been named after Henryk Sienkiewicz, awarded to him after the writer's death. From the side of the street Sienkiewicza park has the character of a French park with symmetrical flower parters, facing the street. Kilińskiego street has a landscape character (English) with wide alleys among trees and bushes. In June 2009, the first place in the city was established in Sienkiewicz Park where you can freely express your views - including organizing rallies, debates and meetings of more than 15 people without obtaining special permits. The idea of the place is modeled on London's Hyde Park. On October 10, 2012, the Plastuś monument, the fifth sculpture created as part of the Łódź Bajkowa tourist trail, was unveiled in Sienkiewicz Park.

Address: Park with an area of 5.2 ha, located within Kilińskiego, Sienkiewicza and Tuwima streets

Stanislaw Staszic Park was established in 1901 as the fourth city park in Lodz. Initially, the park was referred to as the Garden on Dzielna Street or the City Park on Dzielna Street - it received its current name in 1918. In 1912, on the occasion of the Craft and Industrial Exhibition, the Labor Monument ("symbol of the city of labor") was erected in the park, and after the park was named after Stanislaw Staszic, a monument to the patron was erected there, financed by the Technicians Association - both monuments were destroyed during World War II. A new monument to Staszic by Kazimierz Karpinski was unveiled in 1984 during the Congress of Technicians of the Supreme Technical Organization. Stanislaw Staszic is considered by Lodz residents to be one of the "fathers of the city" - people who made a special contribution to the development of Lodz. In 1912 a concert shell was also built in the park - later converted into a summer theater (the building no longer exists). In the park there are four trees and two erratic boulders established as monuments of nature.

Address: The park has an area of 4.1 hectares, located within Narutowicza, Uniwersytecka, Jaracza and Wierzbowa streets

The history of Helens Park begins with three brothers, i.e. Ludwig, Zenon and Frederick, who, after the death of their father Karol Anstadt (1874) and taking over the management of the brewery existing right next door, decided to establish a park. Later Karol Anstadt junior also joined the originators. In 1881, all four obtained permission from the authorities to build the park, which was named Helenow after the wives of the brothers - Ludwig (Helena née Nestler) and Zenon (Helena née Lemm). Among the park's attractions were ponds with a boat landing, water features and a stone cascade on the escarpment, rose avenues, an animal sanctuary (arranged in March 1890, where one could see a pair of bears, a trained chimpanzee, deer, fallow deer, roe deer, wild boar and hares), a volcanic lava grotto, terraces, rich flowerbeds, a concert shell, a cycling track, tennis courts and a playground. An avenue planted with pear trees, later converted to red oaks and maples, led from the entrance to the park's interior.

Address: Park with an area of 12 hectares, located between North, Spring and Smug streets

Staromiejski Park (so-called Herring Park) - is colloquially called so by Lodz residents probably from the fish market located here before World War II. It was built between 1951 and 1953, designed by K. Chrabelski. The place where the park is located was a water reservoir almost until the end of the 19th century (the so-called Pond on the Łódka River). When the reservoir was drained and the river flowing there was included in the canal, the area was closely built up. The area was inhabited primarily by followers of Judaism. A large synagogue, the so-called Altstedt, stood at the northern edge of today's park. In 1941, the occupation authorities decided to demolish some of the buildings, intending to outline the southern boundary of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. After the war, it was decided to create a green area in this area. The park has a pond on the Łódka River, a sculpture by Henryk Burzec, a sculpture of the Year-round Sundial and a monument to the Decalogue (Moses), a fountain, a monument to Aleksander Kamiński and chess tables.

Address: Park with an area of 17 hectares, located between Zachodnia, Ogrodowa, Północna, Franciszkańska and Wolborska Streets, divided by Nowomiejska Street

Park na Zdrowiu, is a historic and the largest park in Lodz, extending over an area of 188.21 hectares. The park was created on land that once belonged to the city's forests. The first concept of developing the area as a park dates back to 1904 and belonged to Teodor Chrzanski (the creator of Poniatowski Park and Sienkiewicz Park), but it was never realized. All concepts sought to preserve the remnants of the remaining forest and designate areas for sports and recreation. The park has retained this character to this day. Initial work on developing the park began in the 1920s. By 1928, nearly 300,000 trees had been planted in the area, ponds had been dug and work on sports areas had begun. In the 1930s, a zoo was laid out, and construction of a stadium, a Jordanian garden, a shooting range and a parachute tower was completed.

Address: Park with an area of 188.2 hectares, located in the area of Union Lubelska Avenue and Srebrzynska, Krakowska, Krzemieniecka and Konstantynowska streets

The Prince Jozef Poniatowski Park was developed in 1904-1910 to a design by Teodor Chrzansky and Walerian Kornenberg, 1910 on the initiative of the city authorities, on the grounds of the former city forests, reaching much further north than the present park (it included, among other things, the grounds of the present hospital, church and film studio). It is one of the largest and most beautiful parks in Lodz. The former name was "Garden on Panska Street." Since 1917 the park has been named after Prince Poniatowski. The park has an original spatial plan, symmetrical and regular, with alleys, nooks, lawns. The park plan combined elements of a natural English park and a French park shaped by the hand of a gardener. The tree stand is very diverse. In the park there are 14 trees recognized as monuments of nature, and the entire park is listed in the register of monuments. Particularly noteworthy are: Japanese pearls, black hawthorn, Swedish rowan, savina juniper. A peculiarity is the triglycerium, which can be admired near Meadow Street.

Address: Park with an area of 41.6 hectares, located between Żeromskiego, Mickiewicza, Jana Pawła II and Parkowa streets

The 3 Maja Park is a historic park, which was established in 1915 the park is a remnant of the city forest, which was part of the Lodz Forest in the past. The former city forest occupied an area three times larger than today: from the south it reached as far as Rokicinskaya Street. During World War I, most of the trees located south of the railroad line, which was routed in 1864, fell victim to residents seeking firewood. After the war ended, the remnant of the forest lying north of the tracks was transformed into a park. Today, the park has similar functions as when it was established: numerous sports facilities (tennis courts, 4 football fields, a running track) and recreational facilities (including a traffic town), as well as walking alleys bustle with life, being a place of rest and recreation for local residents. Two trees recognized as monuments of nature grow there.

Address: The park has an area of 23.5 hectares, located in the area of Kopcińskiego and Malachowskiego streets.

Julianowski Park is a historic park located in a depression, stretching along the valley of the Sokolowka River. Probably in the Middle Ages there was a wooden fortified settlement here. Later the village belonged to a small noble estate. In the 1880s, the estate was purchased by the Lodz factory owner Julius Heinzel (the name of the park derives from his name) and around 1890 he built here for the sum of 60,000 rubles a palace inspired by the forms of the Italian Renaissance, overlooking the ponds. Next to the palace was a game preserve and orchard. The park was then reconstructed, including the construction of numerous stairs, fountains, cascades, bridges and the planting of many exotic trees. In Mickiewicz Park there are twenty trees listed as monuments of nature (such as the oak "Kosynier"). In the 1950s the existing ponds were rebuilt and regulated, giving them their present appearance. Their axis is the Sokolowka River. The concert shell, built by the Department of Culture of the City of Lodz, also dates from this period.

Address: A park with an area of 49.4 hectares, located in the Julianow estate, within Zgierska, Sowińskiego, Jaworowa, Folwarczna, al. Róż, Karłowicza streets

The history of Klepacz Park is linked to the history of the Richter family, Lodz factory owners. Built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the representative residences of the industrialists were surrounded by ornamental gardens, which today form a park. The date of its creation is considered to be 1904 - the date placed on the decorative entrance gate to the Rheinhold Richter residence from Skorupki Street. Of the trees growing in the park, as many as 24 have been declared monuments of nature, among them the 19th-century Fabrykant oak with powerful, spreading branches (trunk circumference of 455 cm, crown span of more than 30 m) - a rare tree of such shape and size. The biodiversity of the park is quite large - 70 taxa (species and varieties), including 46 trees and shrubs. A special peculiarity of the park is the Siberian onion, which in early spring covers the lawns with patches of azure-blue flowers. It is the only place in Poland among urban parks with such a large concentration of these plants. The park is home to two historic villas, Reinhold Richter and Jozef Richter.

Address: The park has an area of 3.3 hectares, located between Wólczanska, Skorupki and Politechniki avenues

Park Źródliska I and Park Źródliska II are the oldest parks in Lodz. They used to form a single park called the Walking Garden, as well as the English Garden, which was established in 1840 and was the only city park until 1875. At that time, part of the forest of the government forestry of Laznów was incorporated into the boundaries of Lodz. "New District" was divided into building plots, an area was designated for a marketplace called Water Market (now Victory Square), and a section was also left for the establishment of a garden. At that time, the park had a forest character, overgrown with alders, hornbeams, oaks, lindens and spruces, only the sides were planted with fruit trees, the area abounded in springs, and its ground was muddy. Two main pedestrian avenues running diagonally, intersecting at the central point of the park, were laid out in its area. In the late 1840s, a dozen benches were erected in the park, several bridges and 2 gazebos were made, and a gardener was hired to take care of the park on a permanent basis.

Address: The park has an area of 17.2 hectares, located within the boundaries of Przędzalniana, Fabryczna, Targowa and Pilsudski streets

The Stanislaw Moniuszko Park in Lodz (formerly Railway Park or Railway Garden; in Yiddish called Koligurtn), is the second oldest park in Lodz and was created in 1875 as a public square (later called Railway Park) for people using the Lodz Fabryczna railroad station, whose building was erected in 1868. There was a forest in the area of today's park, so there was a need to build paths leading to the station. The first plans for the park were made by city architect Hilary Majewski. It was the second park in Lodz (the first was the "Źródliska" park, established in 1840). In the park there is a natural monument: a common beech tree. In 2000, specialized maintenance was carried out on the oldest trees in this park, and in 2019-2020 the park underwent a revitalization, which included the renovation of alleys, new urban furniture, plantings, the construction of a playground and the enlargement of the park by about 600 m².

Address: The park with an area of 2.3 hectares, located within Składowa, Kilińskiego, Narutowicza and Polska Organizacja Wojskowa streets

Park named after Henryk Sienkiewicza was created as the third public park in Łódź in 1875. The park was opened to the inhabitants of Łódź in 1899 and was originally called the "Mikołajewski Municipal Garden", as indicated by a commemorative plaque mounted on a stone at the gate on the western side. Since 1916, the park has been named after Henryk Sienkiewicz, awarded to him after the writer's death. From the side of the street Sienkiewicza park has the character of a French park with symmetrical flower parters, facing the street. Kilińskiego street has a landscape character (English) with wide alleys among trees and bushes. In June 2009, the first place in the city was established in Sienkiewicz Park where you can freely express your views - including organizing rallies, debates and meetings of more than 15 people without obtaining special permits. The idea of the place is modeled on London's Hyde Park. On October 10, 2012, the Plastuś monument, the fifth sculpture created as part of the Łódź Bajkowa tourist trail, was unveiled in Sienkiewicz Park.

Address: Park with an area of 5.2 ha, located within Kilińskiego, Sienkiewicza and Tuwima streets

Stanislaw Staszic Park was established in 1901 as the fourth city park in Lodz. Initially, the park was referred to as the Garden on Dzielna Street or the City Park on Dzielna Street - it received its current name in 1918. In 1912, on the occasion of the Craft and Industrial Exhibition, the Labor Monument ("symbol of the city of labor") was erected in the park, and after the park was named after Stanislaw Staszic, a monument to the patron was erected there, financed by the Technicians Association - both monuments were destroyed during World War II. A new monument to Staszic by Kazimierz Karpinski was unveiled in 1984 during the Congress of Technicians of the Supreme Technical Organization. Stanislaw Staszic is considered by Lodz residents to be one of the "fathers of the city" - people who made a special contribution to the development of Lodz. In 1912 a concert shell was also built in the park - later converted into a summer theater (the building no longer exists). In the park there are four trees and two erratic boulders established as monuments of nature.

Address: The park has an area of 4.1 hectares, located within Narutowicza, Uniwersytecka, Jaracza and Wierzbowa streets

The history of Helens Park begins with three brothers, i.e. Ludwig, Zenon and Frederick, who, after the death of their father Karol Anstadt (1874) and taking over the management of the brewery existing right next door, decided to establish a park. Later Karol Anstadt junior also joined the originators. In 1881, all four obtained permission from the authorities to build the park, which was named Helenow after the wives of the brothers - Ludwig (Helena née Nestler) and Zenon (Helena née Lemm). Among the park's attractions were ponds with a boat landing, water features and a stone cascade on the escarpment, rose avenues, an animal sanctuary (arranged in March 1890, where one could see a pair of bears, a trained chimpanzee, deer, fallow deer, roe deer, wild boar and hares), a volcanic lava grotto, terraces, rich flowerbeds, a concert shell, a cycling track, tennis courts and a playground. An avenue planted with pear trees, later converted to red oaks and maples, led from the entrance to the park's interior.

Address: Park with an area of 12 hectares, located between North, Spring and Smug streets

Staromiejski Park (so-called Herring Park) - is colloquially called so by Lodz residents probably from the fish market located here before World War II. It was built between 1951 and 1953, designed by K. Chrabelski. The place where the park is located was a water reservoir almost until the end of the 19th century (the so-called Pond on the Łódka River). When the reservoir was drained and the river flowing there was included in the canal, the area was closely built up. The area was inhabited primarily by followers of Judaism. A large synagogue, the so-called Altstedt, stood at the northern edge of today's park. In 1941, the occupation authorities decided to demolish some of the buildings, intending to outline the southern boundary of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. After the war, it was decided to create a green area in this area. The park has a pond on the Łódka River, a sculpture by Henryk Burzec, a sculpture of the Year-round Sundial and a monument to the Decalogue (Moses), a fountain, a monument to Aleksander Kamiński and chess tables.

Address: Park with an area of 17 hectares, located between Zachodnia, Ogrodowa, Północna, Franciszkańska and Wolborska Streets, divided by Nowomiejska Street

Park na Zdrowiu, is a historic and the largest park in Lodz, extending over an area of 188.21 hectares. The park was created on land that once belonged to the city's forests. The first concept of developing the area as a park dates back to 1904 and belonged to Teodor Chrzanski (the creator of Poniatowski Park and Sienkiewicz Park), but it was never realized. All concepts sought to preserve the remnants of the remaining forest and designate areas for sports and recreation. The park has retained this character to this day. Initial work on developing the park began in the 1920s. By 1928, nearly 300,000 trees had been planted in the area, ponds had been dug and work on sports areas had begun. In the 1930s, a zoo was laid out, and construction of a stadium, a Jordanian garden, a shooting range and a parachute tower was completed.

Address: Park with an area of 188.2 hectares, located in the area of Union Lubelska Avenue and Srebrzynska, Krakowska, Krzemieniecka and Konstantynowska streets

The Prince Jozef Poniatowski Park was developed in 1904-1910 to a design by Teodor Chrzansky and Walerian Kornenberg, 1910 on the initiative of the city authorities, on the grounds of the former city forests, reaching much further north than the present park (it included, among other things, the grounds of the present hospital, church and film studio). It is one of the largest and most beautiful parks in Lodz. The former name was "Garden on Panska Street." Since 1917 the park has been named after Prince Poniatowski. The park has an original spatial plan, symmetrical and regular, with alleys, nooks, lawns. The park plan combined elements of a natural English park and a French park shaped by the hand of a gardener. The tree stand is very diverse. In the park there are 14 trees recognized as monuments of nature, and the entire park is listed in the register of monuments. Particularly noteworthy are: Japanese pearls, black hawthorn, Swedish rowan, savina juniper. A peculiarity is the triglycerium, which can be admired near Meadow Street.

Address: Park with an area of 41.6 hectares, located between Żeromskiego, Mickiewicza, Jana Pawła II and Parkowa streets

The 3 Maja Park is a historic park, which was established in 1915 the park is a remnant of the city forest, which was part of the Lodz Forest in the past. The former city forest occupied an area three times larger than today: from the south it reached as far as Rokicinskaya Street. During World War I, most of the trees located south of the railroad line, which was routed in 1864, fell victim to residents seeking firewood. After the war ended, the remnant of the forest lying north of the tracks was transformed into a park. Today, the park has similar functions as when it was established: numerous sports facilities (tennis courts, 4 football fields, a running track) and recreational facilities (including a traffic town), as well as walking alleys bustle with life, being a place of rest and recreation for local residents. Two trees recognized as monuments of nature grow there.

Address: The park has an area of 23.5 hectares, located in the area of Kopcińskiego and Malachowskiego streets.

Julianowski Park is a historic park located in a depression, stretching along the valley of the Sokolowka River. Probably in the Middle Ages there was a wooden fortified settlement here. Later the village belonged to a small noble estate. In the 1880s, the estate was purchased by the Lodz factory owner Julius Heinzel (the name of the park derives from his name) and around 1890 he built here for the sum of 60,000 rubles a palace inspired by the forms of the Italian Renaissance, overlooking the ponds. Next to the palace was a game preserve and orchard. The park was then reconstructed, including the construction of numerous stairs, fountains, cascades, bridges and the planting of many exotic trees. In Mickiewicz Park there are twenty trees listed as monuments of nature (such as the oak "Kosynier"). In the 1950s the existing ponds were rebuilt and regulated, giving them their present appearance. Their axis is the Sokolowka River. The concert shell, built by the Department of Culture of the City of Lodz, also dates from this period.

Address: A park with an area of 49.4 hectares, located in the Julianow estate, within Zgierska, Sowińskiego, Jaworowa, Folwarczna, al. Róż, Karłowicza streets

The history of Klepacz Park is linked to the history of the Richter family, Lodz factory owners. Built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the representative residences of the industrialists were surrounded by ornamental gardens, which today form a park. The date of its creation is considered to be 1904 - the date placed on the decorative entrance gate to the Rheinhold Richter residence from Skorupki Street. Of the trees growing in the park, as many as 24 have been declared monuments of nature, among them the 19th-century Fabrykant oak with powerful, spreading branches (trunk circumference of 455 cm, crown span of more than 30 m) - a rare tree of such shape and size. The biodiversity of the park is quite large - 70 taxa (species and varieties), including 46 trees and shrubs. A special peculiarity of the park is the Siberian onion, which in early spring covers the lawns with patches of azure-blue flowers. It is the only place in Poland among urban parks with such a large concentration of these plants. The park is home to two historic villas, Reinhold Richter and Jozef Richter.

Address: The park has an area of 3.3 hectares, located between Wólczanska, Skorupki and Politechniki avenues

The factory and residential complex on the Jasien River was built in the 19th century by Karol Scheibler, Lodz's richest industrialist. It was built on the site of a former mill settlement. It constituted a self-sufficient city within a city modeled on English industrial settlements. There were factory buildings, including a huge, castle-like spinning mill, warehouses, familias (workers' houses), a school, a fire station, a hospital, a gasworks, a factory club, consommes (stores), the owners' residences, and a railroad siding. The decline of the textile industry forced a change in the settlement's function. Today Księży Młyn is a magnet for tourists, artists and photographers, and is a place where one can feel the atmosphere of old Lodz. The estate is systematically renovated, and its great asset is a large amount of greenery. Periodic picnics, fairs and concerts are organized here.

Address: 25C Tymienieckiego Street

In the 1870s, Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański, owner of an industrial complex on Ogrodowa Street, began construction of a factory at the intersection of Ogrodowa and Zachodnia Streets. The rapid growth of the company and favorable prosperity resulted in the erection of one of the largest factory buildings in the city - the spinning mill on Ogrodowa Street. The Izrael Poznański Palace, distinguished by its sumptuously decorated facade and rich interiors, also stood nearby. The empire also included workers' houses and palaces of descendants: Maurycy and Karol Poznanski. After World War II, the Poznański factory came under state management and operated under the name "Poltex" until the 1990s. Today, the grounds of the main industrial complex are occupied by the Manufaktura shopping, entertainment and cultural center. The palace of Izrael Poznanski houses the Museum of the City of Lodz, the palace of Karol Poznanski is the seat of the Academy of Music, and the palace of Maurycy Poznanski houses the Museum of Art.

Address: 58 Drewnowska Street

The White Factory is one of the most important symbols of old Lodz and its textile history. It was here that the first mechanized cotton spinning and weaving mill in Lodz was established. The first steam engine in the city was put into operation at the White Factory, and consequently the first factory chimney also stood here. The complex got its name from its distinctive light-colored plaster, which significantly distinguished it from other later, generally unplastered factory buildings. The three-story factory building at 282 Piotrkowska St. was constructed by Ludwik Geyer and was built between 1835 and 1838. A little later (1847) the south wing was added, and in 1886 the development was supplemented with the east wing. The four-winged factory with the Old Boiler House building in the middle of the courtyard, with a tall chimney, two dust towers and two water towers, is a unique solution of industrial architecture, unparalleled in other factories. The complex currently houses exhibition halls, offices, conference rooms and warehouses.

Address: 282/284 Piotrkowska Street

Construction of the power plant on Targowa Street began on May 26, 1906; the second largest in the Kingdom of Poland, it was eminently "forceful" - about 90% of the energy sold in its first years of operation was used to power engines in industrial plants. At the time, it was an investment that improved air quality in the factory town, as state-of-the-art plants abandoned local boiler plants. After World War II, EC-1 mainly produced process steam for Lodz industry. Its decommissioning took place in 2005. After the revitalization of the former power plant building, which has been going on since 2006, the institution "EC1 Łódź - City of Culture" was established. Within the walls of the former power plant are the Science and Technology Center, the Planetarium, the Comics and Interactive Narrative Center, the National Film Culture Center and the Łódź Film Commission.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The bottling plant of the Vodka Monopoly was established in 1902. The building was designed by Franciszek Chelminski, a well-known architect in Lodz. From 1927 alcohol and denatured alcohol were produced here. After the war, the plant resumed operations by increasing production, and from 1963 it functioned as Lodz Spirits Factory POLMOS. Production declined in the 1990s, and in April 2007 the last bottle of vodka came off the line, and on June 1, 2008 the plant ceased its previous operations. In 2013, thanks to revitalization, a new era began for one of Lodz's most valuable monuments - a modern post-factory space was created, combining commercial, office, cultural and recreational functions. Today it is a multifunctional space with atmospheric streets, a string of restaurants forming a culinary arcade, a museum space and a theater and concert stage.

Address: 62 Kopcińskiego Street

The factory hall was designed by Edward Creutzburg - when it was in operation it produced ribbons, lace and coconut buttons. At the height of its glory, that is, the first decade of the 20th century, about 420 people worked at the plant. In 1930, after the death of the owner, the building was taken over by one of the directors, who created the company "E. Wever, tenant Gustav Patberg and Company" in the building, producing ribbons, ribbons and lace. During the Nazi occupation, Gustav Triebe stayed at the factory alongside Patberg, who bought out most of the minor plants housed in the factory. After the war, the United Tapestry and Ribbon Factories of Patberg and Triebe were established, followed by the State Haberdashery Factory Lodz-South. Until the end of the last century, the building belonged to the "Lenora" haberdashery factory. Currently the building is privately owned, a new investor is changing the factory halls into office space.

Address: 83 Wólczańska Street

The factory was built in 1898 on what was then Dzika Street, designed by Leon Lubotynowicz, for Jozef Balle, a factory owner from Lodz. In 1908 the transmission belt factory, was bought by Goldman Luzer and Michal Nutkiewicz. After a year, Michal Nutkiewicz was left alone, changing the company's profile from a wigon spinning mill to the production of technical fabrics, filter cloths and sleds for oil presses. From 1918 to 1922 the factory was owned by Ida Raschig. In 1984 the building was entered in the register of historical monuments. At the time it housed a book warehouse, owned by the House of Books. In March 1998, the building was bought by Agora S.A. for use by the Lodz-based Gazeta Wyborcza, whose editorial staff moved into the new premises in September 2000. In 2004, the Radio Zlote Przeboje (Golden Hits) studio in Lodz was opened in the building. During the two-year renovation, a two-story fan-shaped element was added to the historic wall. It, along with part of the old factory on the Pilsudski Avenue side, was paved with granite.

Address: 72 Sienkiewicza Street

In 1875, Karol Kretschmer began producing corten and woolen goods in a new steam weaving mill. The factory had 62 handlooms in operation in 1910 and employed more than 300 workers. The company's regression was brought by World War I. In 1925, Kretschmer's factory complex caught fire and in the same year it was taken over by the State Tobacco Monopoly, which moved to this location from 58/60 Kopcińskiego St. The new owners in 1926 expanded the factory with buildings in modernist style, designed by architect Milauer. The company operated at the site until the end of the 20th century, by the end of its operation it was known as the "Lodz Cigarette Factory," producing cigarette brands such as Flat, Egyptian and Popular. After the factory closed in 2001, it was bought by the Arche group in 2007. In 2010, this company revitalized the buildings, partially converting them into apartments and the Tobaco Hotel. Since then, the entire complex after the former tobacco factory is known as Tobaco Park.

Address: 64 Kopernika Street

The factory and residential complex on the Jasien River was built in the 19th century by Karol Scheibler, Lodz's richest industrialist. It was built on the site of a former mill settlement. It constituted a self-sufficient city within a city modeled on English industrial settlements. There were factory buildings, including a huge, castle-like spinning mill, warehouses, familias (workers' houses), a school, a fire station, a hospital, a gasworks, a factory club, consommes (stores), the owners' residences, and a railroad siding. The decline of the textile industry forced a change in the settlement's function. Today Księży Młyn is a magnet for tourists, artists and photographers, and is a place where one can feel the atmosphere of old Lodz. The estate is systematically renovated, and its great asset is a large amount of greenery. Periodic picnics, fairs and concerts are organized here.

Address: 25C Tymienieckiego Street

In the 1870s, Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański, owner of an industrial complex on Ogrodowa Street, began construction of a factory at the intersection of Ogrodowa and Zachodnia Streets. The rapid growth of the company and favorable prosperity resulted in the erection of one of the largest factory buildings in the city - the spinning mill on Ogrodowa Street. The Izrael Poznański Palace, distinguished by its sumptuously decorated facade and rich interiors, also stood nearby. The empire also included workers' houses and palaces of descendants: Maurycy and Karol Poznanski. After World War II, the Poznański factory came under state management and operated under the name "Poltex" until the 1990s. Today, the grounds of the main industrial complex are occupied by the Manufaktura shopping, entertainment and cultural center. The palace of Izrael Poznanski houses the Museum of the City of Lodz, the palace of Karol Poznanski is the seat of the Academy of Music, and the palace of Maurycy Poznanski houses the Museum of Art.

Address: 58 Drewnowska Street

The White Factory is one of the most important symbols of old Lodz and its textile history. It was here that the first mechanized cotton spinning and weaving mill in Lodz was established. The first steam engine in the city was put into operation at the White Factory, and consequently the first factory chimney also stood here. The complex got its name from its distinctive light-colored plaster, which significantly distinguished it from other later, generally unplastered factory buildings. The three-story factory building at 282 Piotrkowska St. was constructed by Ludwik Geyer and was built between 1835 and 1838. A little later (1847) the south wing was added, and in 1886 the development was supplemented with the east wing. The four-winged factory with the Old Boiler House building in the middle of the courtyard, with a tall chimney, two dust towers and two water towers, is a unique solution of industrial architecture, unparalleled in other factories. The complex currently houses exhibition halls, offices, conference rooms and warehouses.

Address: 282/284 Piotrkowska Street

Construction of the power plant on Targowa Street began on May 26, 1906; the second largest in the Kingdom of Poland, it was eminently "forceful" - about 90% of the energy sold in its first years of operation was used to power engines in industrial plants. At the time, it was an investment that improved air quality in the factory town, as state-of-the-art plants abandoned local boiler plants. After World War II, EC-1 mainly produced process steam for Lodz industry. Its decommissioning took place in 2005. After the revitalization of the former power plant building, which has been going on since 2006, the institution "EC1 Łódź - City of Culture" was established. Within the walls of the former power plant are the Science and Technology Center, the Planetarium, the Comics and Interactive Narrative Center, the National Film Culture Center and the Łódź Film Commission.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The bottling plant of the Vodka Monopoly was established in 1902. The building was designed by Franciszek Chelminski, a well-known architect in Lodz. From 1927 alcohol and denatured alcohol were produced here. After the war, the plant resumed operations by increasing production, and from 1963 it functioned as Lodz Spirits Factory POLMOS. Production declined in the 1990s, and in April 2007 the last bottle of vodka came off the line, and on June 1, 2008 the plant ceased its previous operations. In 2013, thanks to revitalization, a new era began for one of Lodz's most valuable monuments - a modern post-factory space was created, combining commercial, office, cultural and recreational functions. Today it is a multifunctional space with atmospheric streets, a string of restaurants forming a culinary arcade, a museum space and a theater and concert stage.

Address: 62 Kopcińskiego Street

The factory hall was designed by Edward Creutzburg - when it was in operation it produced ribbons, lace and coconut buttons. At the height of its glory, that is, the first decade of the 20th century, about 420 people worked at the plant. In 1930, after the death of the owner, the building was taken over by one of the directors, who created the company "E. Wever, tenant Gustav Patberg and Company" in the building, producing ribbons, ribbons and lace. During the Nazi occupation, Gustav Triebe stayed at the factory alongside Patberg, who bought out most of the minor plants housed in the factory. After the war, the United Tapestry and Ribbon Factories of Patberg and Triebe were established, followed by the State Haberdashery Factory Lodz-South. Until the end of the last century, the building belonged to the "Lenora" haberdashery factory. Currently the building is privately owned, a new investor is changing the factory halls into office space.

Address: 83 Wólczańska Street

The factory was built in 1898 on what was then Dzika Street, designed by Leon Lubotynowicz, for Jozef Balle, a factory owner from Lodz. In 1908 the transmission belt factory, was bought by Goldman Luzer and Michal Nutkiewicz. After a year, Michal Nutkiewicz was left alone, changing the company's profile from a wigon spinning mill to the production of technical fabrics, filter cloths and sleds for oil presses. From 1918 to 1922 the factory was owned by Ida Raschig. In 1984 the building was entered in the register of historical monuments. At the time it housed a book warehouse, owned by the House of Books. In March 1998, the building was bought by Agora S.A. for use by the Lodz-based Gazeta Wyborcza, whose editorial staff moved into the new premises in September 2000. In 2004, the Radio Zlote Przeboje (Golden Hits) studio in Lodz was opened in the building. During the two-year renovation, a two-story fan-shaped element was added to the historic wall. It, along with part of the old factory on the Pilsudski Avenue side, was paved with granite.

Address: 72 Sienkiewicza Street

In 1875, Karol Kretschmer began producing corten and woolen goods in a new steam weaving mill. The factory had 62 handlooms in operation in 1910 and employed more than 300 workers. The company's regression was brought by World War I. In 1925, Kretschmer's factory complex caught fire and in the same year it was taken over by the State Tobacco Monopoly, which moved to this location from 58/60 Kopcińskiego St. The new owners in 1926 expanded the factory with buildings in modernist style, designed by architect Milauer. The company operated at the site until the end of the 20th century, by the end of its operation it was known as the "Lodz Cigarette Factory," producing cigarette brands such as Flat, Egyptian and Popular. After the factory closed in 2001, it was bought by the Arche group in 2007. In 2010, this company revitalized the buildings, partially converting them into apartments and the Tobaco Hotel. Since then, the entire complex after the former tobacco factory is known as Tobaco Park.

Address: 64 Kopernika Street

The factory and residential complex on the Jasien River was built in the 19th century by Karol Scheibler, Lodz's richest industrialist. It was built on the site of a former mill settlement. It constituted a self-sufficient city within a city modeled on English industrial settlements. There were factory buildings, including a huge, castle-like spinning mill, warehouses, familias (workers' houses), a school, a fire station, a hospital, a gasworks, a factory club, consommes (stores), the owners' residences, and a railroad siding. The decline of the textile industry forced a change in the settlement's function. Today Księży Młyn is a magnet for tourists, artists and photographers, and is a place where one can feel the atmosphere of old Lodz. The estate is systematically renovated, and its great asset is a large amount of greenery. Periodic picnics, fairs and concerts are organized here.

Address: 25C Tymienieckiego Street

In the 1870s, Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański, owner of an industrial complex on Ogrodowa Street, began construction of a factory at the intersection of Ogrodowa and Zachodnia Streets. The rapid growth of the company and favorable prosperity resulted in the erection of one of the largest factory buildings in the city - the spinning mill on Ogrodowa Street. The Izrael Poznański Palace, distinguished by its sumptuously decorated facade and rich interiors, also stood nearby. The empire also included workers' houses and palaces of descendants: Maurycy and Karol Poznanski. After World War II, the Poznański factory came under state management and operated under the name "Poltex" until the 1990s. Today, the grounds of the main industrial complex are occupied by the Manufaktura shopping, entertainment and cultural center. The palace of Izrael Poznanski houses the Museum of the City of Lodz, the palace of Karol Poznanski is the seat of the Academy of Music, and the palace of Maurycy Poznanski houses the Museum of Art.

Address: 58 Drewnowska Street

The White Factory is one of the most important symbols of old Lodz and its textile history. It was here that the first mechanized cotton spinning and weaving mill in Lodz was established. The first steam engine in the city was put into operation at the White Factory, and consequently the first factory chimney also stood here. The complex got its name from its distinctive light-colored plaster, which significantly distinguished it from other later, generally unplastered factory buildings. The three-story factory building at 282 Piotrkowska St. was constructed by Ludwik Geyer and was built between 1835 and 1838. A little later (1847) the south wing was added, and in 1886 the development was supplemented with the east wing. The four-winged factory with the Old Boiler House building in the middle of the courtyard, with a tall chimney, two dust towers and two water towers, is a unique solution of industrial architecture, unparalleled in other factories. The complex currently houses exhibition halls, offices, conference rooms and warehouses.

Address: 282/284 Piotrkowska Street

Construction of the power plant on Targowa Street began on May 26, 1906; the second largest in the Kingdom of Poland, it was eminently "forceful" - about 90% of the energy sold in its first years of operation was used to power engines in industrial plants. At the time, it was an investment that improved air quality in the factory town, as state-of-the-art plants abandoned local boiler plants. After World War II, EC-1 mainly produced process steam for Lodz industry. Its decommissioning took place in 2005. After the revitalization of the former power plant building, which has been going on since 2006, the institution "EC1 Łódź - City of Culture" was established. Within the walls of the former power plant are the Science and Technology Center, the Planetarium, the Comics and Interactive Narrative Center, the National Film Culture Center and the Łódź Film Commission.

Address: 1/3 Targowa Street

The bottling plant of the Vodka Monopoly was established in 1902. The building was designed by Franciszek Chelminski, a well-known architect in Lodz. From 1927 alcohol and denatured alcohol were produced here. After the war, the plant resumed operations by increasing production, and from 1963 it functioned as Lodz Spirits Factory POLMOS. Production declined in the 1990s, and in April 2007 the last bottle of vodka came off the line, and on June 1, 2008 the plant ceased its previous operations. In 2013, thanks to revitalization, a new era began for one of Lodz's most valuable monuments - a modern post-factory space was created, combining commercial, office, cultural and recreational functions. Today it is a multifunctional space with atmospheric streets, a string of restaurants forming a culinary arcade, a museum space and a theater and concert stage.

Address: 62 Kopcińskiego Street

The factory hall was designed by Edward Creutzburg - when it was in operation it produced ribbons, lace and coconut buttons. At the height of its glory, that is, the first decade of the 20th century, about 420 people worked at the plant. In 1930, after the death of the owner, the building was taken over by one of the directors, who created the company "E. Wever, tenant Gustav Patberg and Company" in the building, producing ribbons, ribbons and lace. During the Nazi occupation, Gustav Triebe stayed at the factory alongside Patberg, who bought out most of the minor plants housed in the factory. After the war, the United Tapestry and Ribbon Factories of Patberg and Triebe were established, followed by the State Haberdashery Factory Lodz-South. Until the end of the last century, the building belonged to the "Lenora" haberdashery factory. Currently the building is privately owned, a new investor is changing the factory halls into office space.

Address: 83 Wólczańska Street

The factory was built in 1898 on what was then Dzika Street, designed by Leon Lubotynowicz, for Jozef Balle, a factory owner from Lodz. In 1908 the transmission belt factory, was bought by Goldman Luzer and Michal Nutkiewicz. After a year, Michal Nutkiewicz was left alone, changing the company's profile from a wigon spinning mill to the production of technical fabrics, filter cloths and sleds for oil presses. From 1918 to 1922 the factory was owned by Ida Raschig. In 1984 the building was entered in the register of historical monuments. At the time it housed a book warehouse, owned by the House of Books. In March 1998, the building was bought by Agora S.A. for use by the Lodz-based Gazeta Wyborcza, whose editorial staff moved into the new premises in September 2000. In 2004, the Radio Zlote Przeboje (Golden Hits) studio in Lodz was opened in the building. During the two-year renovation, a two-story fan-shaped element was added to the historic wall. It, along with part of the old factory on the Pilsudski Avenue side, was paved with granite.

Address: 72 Sienkiewicza Street

In 1875, Karol Kretschmer began producing corten and woolen goods in a new steam weaving mill. The factory had 62 handlooms in operation in 1910 and employed more than 300 workers. The company's regression was brought by World War I. In 1925, Kretschmer's factory complex caught fire and in the same year it was taken over by the State Tobacco Monopoly, which moved to this location from 58/60 Kopcińskiego St. The new owners in 1926 expanded the factory with buildings in modernist style, designed by architect Milauer. The company operated at the site until the end of the 20th century, by the end of its operation it was known as the "Lodz Cigarette Factory," producing cigarette brands such as Flat, Egyptian and Popular. After the factory closed in 2001, it was bought by the Arche group in 2007. In 2010, this company revitalized the buildings, partially converting them into apartments and the Tobaco Hotel. Since then, the entire complex after the former tobacco factory is known as Tobaco Park.

Address: 64 Kopernika Street

One of the best examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Poland and Europe. It was designed around 1901 by Gustav Landau-Gutenteger, and was built in 1902-1903. Since 1975, the villa has housed a branch of the Municipal Art Gallery (Willa Gallery). The facade of the building is richly decorated with floral elements. The villa is approached through an entrance with a portico supported by sculptures of two apple trees. Hence its other name - "villa under the apple trees". Particularly rich is the framing of one of the first floor windows depicting two trees with lush crowns and tangled roots, in which a fox hides. The first floor consists of a study and two exhibition rooms, the interiors of which are decorated in the Art Nouveau style with stucco decoration in the form of chestnut leaves, rose blossoms, apple blossoms, poppies, and a music corner with smaller multicolored stained glass windows. The original stained glass windows have also been preserved: in the staircase window, depicting a barefoot woman in a green tunic and with flowers in her hair, as a representation of the goddess of mornings - Dawn. The windows of the villa, in accordance with the principles of Art Nouveau architecture, have different shapes, no two are identical, some are shielded by decorative grilles with wavy arches.

Address: 31 Wólczanska Street

The villa of Edward Herbst - a pearl of Lodz residences, impressive interiors of the villa presenting the lifestyle of a wealthy factory owner family, and now a branch of the Museum of Art in Lodz - this is how the Herbst Palace Museum can be described in a nutshell. The villa was built in 1876, designed by urban architect Hilary Majewski, who gave it the unique form of a Neo-Renaissance residence. The aesthetic qualities of the villa are largely emphasized by the surrounding garden, giving the whole establishment the character of a country residence. The residence was meticulously renovated in 2011-2013. The interior is complemented by the exhibition "Herbsts. Unfinished Stories" describing the fate of two generations of the Herbst family living in the villa. In turn, a collection of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries is exhibited in the former stable.

Address: 72 Przędzalniana Street

The villa was built according to a design by architect Ignacy Stebelski in 1903-1904 on what was then Placowa Street. The building was designed on German and English patterns of "irregular architecture" for Reinhold Richter. Adjacent to it was the villa of his brother Joseph Richter, built a few years earlier, with which it was connected by a park. A magnificent example of architecture combining elements of Art Nouveau, Neo-Renaissance and Mannerism in the body of a factory owner's villa from the early 20th century. Currently, the historic Reinhold Richter building serves the rector of the Lodz University of Technology. After several years of restoration (fire in 2016), it has regained its former splendor. The place deserves special attention in early spring, when the bulbs are in bloom. It is beautiful!

Address: 6/8 Skorupki Street

The summer house of Theodor Steigert is a wooden summer villa, built around 1900 The building is a representative of Swiss-style architecture, referring to architecture from Alpine resorts The building has typical rich carving, columns and friezes. The building itself was made of wood and placed on a foundation. Decorative as well as utilitarian functions are performed by balconies, galleries and verandas. The Teodor Steigert House is one of the few buildings of this type that have survived to the present day in Lodz. One more building in this style is the villa of Ludwig Meyer, as well as former outbuildings that once also belonged to the entrepreneur Ludwig Meyer.

Address: 49/51 Popioły Street

This classicist villa was built in 1882, constructed as the home of French factory owner Léon Allart and his family. The entrepreneur built it opposite his factory. The villa represents the Classicist style of architecture. The building has a distinctive front elevation with a substantial balcony, supported by brackets, and having pillars topped with balls and vases. The building's façade, moreover, has cornices, rustication, as well as pilasters with capitals in the Ionic order. The building is also distinguished by a facade with an attic and a wolf's-eye. On the side of the courtyard, the villa has a risalite topped by a terrace, as well as a facade with a window in the form of a trillium. The ornament of the residence is not only an exquisitely preserved hall with a staircase - with stained glass windows, stucco and wall paintings, but also.... a porcelain double washbasin from the 19th century, located in the upstairs bathroom.

Address: 38 Wróblewskiego Street

The building at 17 Tuwima Street is a pearl of Lodz architecture, although it was not entered in the Register of Historic Places until 2006. It was built in 1883 as a result of the expansion of a simple weaver's house into a small but richly decorated residence. This small building has a rich, unique and varied interior design of great historical and artistic value. There is very valuable stucco, polychrome, stained glass and decorative window woodwork. The architectural details are also unusual for Lodz, as they represent the Neo-Mannerist style, a rare example in Lodz architecture of decor with forms of German Renaissance and Dutch Mannerism. The renovated building was made available to the consulates of the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Albania.

Address: 17 Tuwima Street

Lodz Park of Urban Culture (formerly Skansen Lodzkiej Architektury Drewnianej) - on its territory there are eight historical buildings, typical of the buildings of Lodz in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The buildings were relocated from various places in and around Lodz. They were selected to best and most fully represent the old wooden architecture of the city. The buildings have been carefully restored, partially reconstructed and thermally modernized. The park includes 5 wooden houses relocated from Wólczańska, Żeromskiego, Kopernika and Mazowiecka Streets, a villa relocated from Scaleniowa Street in Ruda Pabianicka, a wooden St. Andrew Bobola Church translocated from Nowosolna, and a wooden streetcar waiting room from Zgierz's terminus at Jana Kilińskiego Square.

Address: 282 Piotrkowska Street

The residence was built in 1895-1896 to a design by Piotr Brukalski. The building was constructed for Eugeniusz Geyer (son of Ludwik) and his wife Jadwiga. In 1903 it was slightly rebuilt. The building belonged to the Geyer family until 1945, when it was nationalized. After 1945 it was, among other things, a dental clinic of the University of Lodz. In 1956, the villa was expanded with a northeast wing. Later it was taken over by the State Sanitary Inspectorate and houses the headquarters of the District Sanitary and Epidemiological Station. The building was erected on a plan similar to a square. Its architecture is kept in the historical architectural trend and refers to the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism. The building has decorative portals around the entrances, triangular pediments with cartouche motifs, located above the windows. Historically, on the northwest side of the villa there was a terrace with a descent to the garden, which over time was walled and transformed into a veranda. Inside, the building features ornate woodwork and neo-Renaissance floral ceiling stucco.

Address: 10 Stanislaw Przybyszewski Street

This is an eclectic villa built for Ludwik Geyer's son and located in close proximity to the Geyer factories stretching along Piotrkowska Street. It is surrounded by a garden, originally extending from Piotrkowska Street to Wólczańska Street, later greatly reduced. The villa is set on a near-square plan with risalits. The first floor is decorated with boniae, on the first floor the windows are framed with decorative aediculae, on the south side there is a tripartite Venetian window. A main entrance preceded by a small staircase and shielded by an iron openwork glazed canopy is located to the east. The interior uses a three-tract layout. The vestibule to the east, with a single flight staircase framed by oak balustrades, leads through a wide opening framed by columns to a centrally located hall with a Neo-Renaissance design.

Address: 3 Czerwona Street

The villa was incorporated into a factory complex built slightly earlier and located in the southwestern part of the quarter enclosed by Tylna Street. Adjacent to the spinning mill, in 1881, Ludwik Grohman erected a magnificent residence with a courtyard enclosed by an outbuilding and adjacent orangery, surrounded by a garden. The villa, maintained in the Italian Renaissance style, was built according to a design by Hilary Majewski. The first floor, unlike most villas, had an irregular interior layout, as there were both formal and residential rooms. The interior utility program was basically traditional, with a dining room, cupboard room, library, living room, study rooms, ballroom, etc. Particularly interesting are the study with a fireplace, the concert hall and the ballroom with original chandeliers preserved in it. Internal communication was supplemented by elevators - a passenger one and three utility elevators, made by a Berlin company. The interiors were decorated with great splendor and luxury, with rich stucco and decorations with allegorical paintings and sculptural representations.

Address: 9/11 Tylna Street

Like a castle from a fairy tale, surrounded by greenery.... this is how the historic villa at 243 Wólczańska St. was built in 1903-1905 for the Lodz factory owner Karol Bennisch (son of Wilhelm and Helena née Bennich Hüffer). Brothers Wilhelm and Teodor Hüffer had their tricot factory (nationalized after World War II. Famous "Wólczanka") near the villa, and probably for this reason ownership of the villa was attributed to the Hüffers. Over the years the building changed owners. In 1933 it housed a hostel for elderly Jewish intelligentsia "Zacisze". During World War II, the NSDAP had its headquarters there. After the end of hostilities, the villa passed to the state treasury and a company nursery and kindergarten were placed there. In 1961, the Medical Training College became the new user. Then in 1968, offices of the "Wólczanka" factory (former Hüffer factory) were located inside the historic villa.

Address: 243 Wólczańska Street

Jakub Icek Kestenberg purchased a plot of land at the intersection of Cegielniana (now Jaracza) and Nowo Targowa (now Sterling) Streets in 1893, on which he erected a woolen goods factory by 1900. Franciszek Chelminski designed the residence in 1902, and it was completed a year later. The villa is a two-story building with a varied interior layout on both floors - due to its functions. The first floor housed commercial and administrative premises, the floor above - residential and administrative. The residence is covered with a mansard roof (it was expanded 50 years later). The elevation of the residence from the side of Jaracza Street has a villa character, and from the side of Sterling Street a palace one. It is varied with balconies, bay windows and terraces. It is covered with quite rich ornamentation of Viennese Art Nouveau, where floral decoration prevails. One can also see elements of classical origin, such as pilasters topped with capitals of stylized acanthus leaves, teardrop motifs, cube frieze, volute flows. On the garden side, a columned porch with a polygonal tower, housing a staircase.

Address: 26 Seweryna Sterlinga Street

The villa was built between 1923-1928 to the order of Jezajasz Kestenberg, son of Jakub Kestenberg. The author of the building's design was Jerzy Münz. It is mistakenly believed that the first owner of the building was Maria Lange. In fact, on July 27, 1922 she sold the property to the Kestenberg couple, on which the villa, which still exists today, was subsequently built. It is possible that another house was previously located on the same site, but elements of which have not survived to the present day. Due to financial problems, in 1938 Jezajasz Kestenberg began to negotiate with the city authorities about the possibility of renting the villa to establish a tourist hostel in it. However, it was eventually sold at auction on June 19, 1939 to the Chamber of Agriculture, which moved its headquarters to the building from 92 Piotrkowska Street.

Address: 59 prez. Gabriela Narutowicza Street

It was built in 1904-1905 for Lodz entrepreneur Leon Rappaport. The design of the building is attributed to architects David Landy and Gustav Landau-Gutenteger, according to whose plans several other Art Nouveau buildings in the city were built. The two-story, basement building, built of dark red brick, was covered with smooth plaster with rich light stucco decorations with floral motifs, enriched with dark rustication and dark rough plaster, mainly covering the cusps of the window arches. A characteristic element of the villa is a square staircase in the shape of a tower, covered with a sloping roof. Its interiors still have richly decorated stucco.

Address: 44 Revolution of 1905 Street

Neo-Renaissance villa from 1887 designed by Julius Jung for Ludwig Meyer. The villa was designed in the Neo-Renaissance style. The building was horseshoe-shaped. Originally it had 2 impressive risalits, balconies, as well as a portico with a terrace, pilasters between the windows and columns with heads with acanthus leaves. Among the architectural details, the rustications on the facade of the first floor have been preserved. The "Trianon" villa is one of six villas built in the 1880s by Ludwig Meyer on Moniuszki Street (formerly Meyer Passage). The investor expected the capital of the guberniya to be moved from Piotrkow Trybunalski to the rapidly developing Lodz, and therefore hoped that officials and dignitaries would become residents of his villa. However, the relocation of the guberniya's capital did not materialize, and the investor was left with substantial loans to repay, so he desperately sought tenants. Among them was Bronislaw Wilkoszewski, who occupied an apartment and atelier, located in a glassed-in veranda between the wings of the mansion.

Address: 5 Moniuszki Street

Ludwik Heinzl's summer villa, built in 1896. The building was completed in 1896 for Ludwik Heinzl, heir to Arturówek and Lagiewniki estates. It served as the summer residence of the Heinzl family. After World War II, the building housed a dormitory and an outpost of the Citizen's Voluntary Reserve Militia (ORMO). In 1976 the villa was taken over by the Provincial Sports and Recreation Center, which in 1982 sold it to a private investor, who then created the "Daria" Hotel in it. The building appeared in the 2001 film "Reich" by Wladyslaw Pasikowski. The building is a representative of historicizing - eclectic architecture. It was built on a rectangular plan, and in its western corner there is a turret on a square plan. The villa has 2 stories and a high mansard, gabled roof, having dormers on both slopes. Historic stables, belonging to the villa, are also located on the property.

Address: 2/4 Studencka Street in the Arturówek area of Lodz

One of the best examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Poland and Europe. It was designed around 1901 by Gustav Landau-Gutenteger, and was built in 1902-1903. Since 1975, the villa has housed a branch of the Municipal Art Gallery (Willa Gallery). The facade of the building is richly decorated with floral elements. The villa is approached through an entrance with a portico supported by sculptures of two apple trees. Hence its other name - "villa under the apple trees". Particularly rich is the framing of one of the first floor windows depicting two trees with lush crowns and tangled roots, in which a fox hides. The first floor consists of a study and two exhibition rooms, the interiors of which are decorated in the Art Nouveau style with stucco decoration in the form of chestnut leaves, rose blossoms, apple blossoms, poppies, and a music corner with smaller multicolored stained glass windows. The original stained glass windows have also been preserved: in the staircase window, depicting a barefoot woman in a green tunic and with flowers in her hair, as a representation of the goddess of mornings - Dawn. The windows of the villa, in accordance with the principles of Art Nouveau architecture, have different shapes, no two are identical, some are shielded by decorative grilles with wavy arches.

Address: 31 Wólczanska Street

The villa of Edward Herbst - a pearl of Lodz residences, impressive interiors of the villa presenting the lifestyle of a wealthy factory owner family, and now a branch of the Museum of Art in Lodz - this is how the Herbst Palace Museum can be described in a nutshell. The villa was built in 1876, designed by urban architect Hilary Majewski, who gave it the unique form of a Neo-Renaissance residence. The aesthetic qualities of the villa are largely emphasized by the surrounding garden, giving the whole establishment the character of a country residence. The residence was meticulously renovated in 2011-2013. The interior is complemented by the exhibition "Herbsts. Unfinished Stories" describing the fate of two generations of the Herbst family living in the villa. In turn, a collection of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries is exhibited in the former stable.

Address: 72 Przędzalniana Street

The villa was built according to a design by architect Ignacy Stebelski in 1903-1904 on what was then Placowa Street. The building was designed on German and English patterns of "irregular architecture" for Reinhold Richter. Adjacent to it was the villa of his brother Joseph Richter, built a few years earlier, with which it was connected by a park. A magnificent example of architecture combining elements of Art Nouveau, Neo-Renaissance and Mannerism in the body of a factory owner's villa from the early 20th century. Currently, the historic Reinhold Richter building serves the rector of the Lodz University of Technology. After several years of restoration (fire in 2016), it has regained its former splendor. The place deserves special attention in early spring, when the bulbs are in bloom. It is beautiful!

Address: 6/8 Skorupki Street

The summer house of Theodor Steigert is a wooden summer villa, built around 1900 The building is a representative of Swiss-style architecture, referring to architecture from Alpine resorts The building has typical rich carving, columns and friezes. The building itself was made of wood and placed on a foundation. Decorative as well as utilitarian functions are performed by balconies, galleries and verandas. The Teodor Steigert House is one of the few buildings of this type that have survived to the present day in Lodz. One more building in this style is the villa of Ludwig Meyer, as well as former outbuildings that once also belonged to the entrepreneur Ludwig Meyer.

Address: 49/51 Popioły Street

This classicist villa was built in 1882, constructed as the home of French factory owner Léon Allart and his family. The entrepreneur built it opposite his factory. The villa represents the Classicist style of architecture. The building has a distinctive front elevation with a substantial balcony, supported by brackets, and having pillars topped with balls and vases. The building's façade, moreover, has cornices, rustication, as well as pilasters with capitals in the Ionic order. The building is also distinguished by a facade with an attic and a wolf's-eye. On the side of the courtyard, the villa has a risalite topped by a terrace, as well as a facade with a window in the form of a trillium. The ornament of the residence is not only an exquisitely preserved hall with a staircase - with stained glass windows, stucco and wall paintings, but also.... a porcelain double washbasin from the 19th century, located in the upstairs bathroom.

Address: 38 Wróblewskiego Street

The building at 17 Tuwima Street is a pearl of Lodz architecture, although it was not entered in the Register of Historic Places until 2006. It was built in 1883 as a result of the expansion of a simple weaver's house into a small but richly decorated residence. This small building has a rich, unique and varied interior design of great historical and artistic value. There is very valuable stucco, polychrome, stained glass and decorative window woodwork. The architectural details are also unusual for Lodz, as they represent the Neo-Mannerist style, a rare example in Lodz architecture of decor with forms of German Renaissance and Dutch Mannerism. The renovated building was made available to the consulates of the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Albania.

Address: 17 Tuwima Street

Lodz Park of Urban Culture (formerly Skansen Lodzkiej Architektury Drewnianej) - on its territory there are eight historical buildings, typical of the buildings of Lodz in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The buildings were relocated from various places in and around Lodz. They were selected to best and most fully represent the old wooden architecture of the city. The buildings have been carefully restored, partially reconstructed and thermally modernized. The park includes 5 wooden houses relocated from Wólczańska, Żeromskiego, Kopernika and Mazowiecka Streets, a villa relocated from Scaleniowa Street in Ruda Pabianicka, a wooden St. Andrew Bobola Church translocated from Nowosolna, and a wooden streetcar waiting room from Zgierz's terminus at Jana Kilińskiego Square.

Address: 282 Piotrkowska Street

The residence was built in 1895-1896 to a design by Piotr Brukalski. The building was constructed for Eugeniusz Geyer (son of Ludwik) and his wife Jadwiga. In 1903 it was slightly rebuilt. The building belonged to the Geyer family until 1945, when it was nationalized. After 1945 it was, among other things, a dental clinic of the University of Lodz. In 1956, the villa was expanded with a northeast wing. Later it was taken over by the State Sanitary Inspectorate and houses the headquarters of the District Sanitary and Epidemiological Station. The building was erected on a plan similar to a square. Its architecture is kept in the historical architectural trend and refers to the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism. The building has decorative portals around the entrances, triangular pediments with cartouche motifs, located above the windows. Historically, on the northwest side of the villa there was a terrace with a descent to the garden, which over time was walled and transformed into a veranda. Inside, the building features ornate woodwork and neo-Renaissance floral ceiling stucco.

Address: 10 Stanislaw Przybyszewski Street

This is an eclectic villa built for Ludwik Geyer's son and located in close proximity to the Geyer factories stretching along Piotrkowska Street. It is surrounded by a garden, originally extending from Piotrkowska Street to Wólczańska Street, later greatly reduced. The villa is set on a near-square plan with risalits. The first floor is decorated with boniae, on the first floor the windows are framed with decorative aediculae, on the south side there is a tripartite Venetian window. A main entrance preceded by a small staircase and shielded by an iron openwork glazed canopy is located to the east. The interior uses a three-tract layout. The vestibule to the east, with a single flight staircase framed by oak balustrades, leads through a wide opening framed by columns to a centrally located hall with a Neo-Renaissance design.

Address: 3 Czerwona Street

The villa was incorporated into a factory complex built slightly earlier and located in the southwestern part of the quarter enclosed by Tylna Street. Adjacent to the spinning mill, in 1881, Ludwik Grohman erected a magnificent residence with a courtyard enclosed by an outbuilding and adjacent orangery, surrounded by a garden. The villa, maintained in the Italian Renaissance style, was built according to a design by Hilary Majewski. The first floor, unlike most villas, had an irregular interior layout, as there were both formal and residential rooms. The interior utility program was basically traditional, with a dining room, cupboard room, library, living room, study rooms, ballroom, etc. Particularly interesting are the study with a fireplace, the concert hall and the ballroom with original chandeliers preserved in it. Internal communication was supplemented by elevators - a passenger one and three utility elevators, made by a Berlin company. The interiors were decorated with great splendor and luxury, with rich stucco and decorations with allegorical paintings and sculptural representations.

Address: 9/11 Tylna Street

Like a castle from a fairy tale, surrounded by greenery.... this is how the historic villa at 243 Wólczańska St. was built in 1903-1905 for the Lodz factory owner Karol Bennisch (son of Wilhelm and Helena née Bennich Hüffer). Brothers Wilhelm and Teodor Hüffer had their tricot factory (nationalized after World War II. Famous "Wólczanka") near the villa, and probably for this reason ownership of the villa was attributed to the Hüffers. Over the years the building changed owners. In 1933 it housed a hostel for elderly Jewish intelligentsia "Zacisze". During World War II, the NSDAP had its headquarters there. After the end of hostilities, the villa passed to the state treasury and a company nursery and kindergarten were placed there. In 1961, the Medical Training College became the new user. Then in 1968, offices of the "Wólczanka" factory (former Hüffer factory) were located inside the historic villa.

Address: 243 Wólczańska Street

Jakub Icek Kestenberg purchased a plot of land at the intersection of Cegielniana (now Jaracza) and Nowo Targowa (now Sterling) Streets in 1893, on which he erected a woolen goods factory by 1900. Franciszek Chelminski designed the residence in 1902, and it was completed a year later. The villa is a two-story building with a varied interior layout on both floors - due to its functions. The first floor housed commercial and administrative premises, the floor above - residential and administrative. The residence is covered with a mansard roof (it was expanded 50 years later). The elevation of the residence from the side of Jaracza Street has a villa character, and from the side of Sterling Street a palace one. It is varied with balconies, bay windows and terraces. It is covered with quite rich ornamentation of Viennese Art Nouveau, where floral decoration prevails. One can also see elements of classical origin, such as pilasters topped with capitals of stylized acanthus leaves, teardrop motifs, cube frieze, volute flows. On the garden side, a columned porch with a polygonal tower, housing a staircase.

Address: 26 Seweryna Sterlinga Street

The villa was built between 1923-1928 to the order of Jezajasz Kestenberg, son of Jakub Kestenberg. The author of the building's design was Jerzy Münz. It is mistakenly believed that the first owner of the building was Maria Lange. In fact, on July 27, 1922 she sold the property to the Kestenberg couple, on which the villa, which still exists today, was subsequently built. It is possible that another house was previously located on the same site, but elements of which have not survived to the present day. Due to financial problems, in 1938 Jezajasz Kestenberg began to negotiate with the city authorities about the possibility of renting the villa to establish a tourist hostel in it. However, it was eventually sold at auction on June 19, 1939 to the Chamber of Agriculture, which moved its headquarters to the building from 92 Piotrkowska Street.

Address: 59 prez. Gabriela Narutowicza Street

It was built in 1904-1905 for Lodz entrepreneur Leon Rappaport. The design of the building is attributed to architects David Landy and Gustav Landau-Gutenteger, according to whose plans several other Art Nouveau buildings in the city were built. The two-story, basement building, built of dark red brick, was covered with smooth plaster with rich light stucco decorations with floral motifs, enriched with dark rustication and dark rough plaster, mainly covering the cusps of the window arches. A characteristic element of the villa is a square staircase in the shape of a tower, covered with a sloping roof. Its interiors still have richly decorated stucco.

Address: 44 Revolution of 1905 Street

Neo-Renaissance villa from 1887 designed by Julius Jung for Ludwig Meyer. The villa was designed in the Neo-Renaissance style. The building was horseshoe-shaped. Originally it had 2 impressive risalits, balconies, as well as a portico with a terrace, pilasters between the windows and columns with heads with acanthus leaves. Among the architectural details, the rustications on the facade of the first floor have been preserved. The "Trianon" villa is one of six villas built in the 1880s by Ludwig Meyer on Moniuszki Street (formerly Meyer Passage). The investor expected the capital of the guberniya to be moved from Piotrkow Trybunalski to the rapidly developing Lodz, and therefore hoped that officials and dignitaries would become residents of his villa. However, the relocation of the guberniya's capital did not materialize, and the investor was left with substantial loans to repay, so he desperately sought tenants. Among them was Bronislaw Wilkoszewski, who occupied an apartment and atelier, located in a glassed-in veranda between the wings of the mansion.

Address: 5 Moniuszki Street

Ludwik Heinzl's summer villa, built in 1896. The building was completed in 1896 for Ludwik Heinzl, heir to Arturówek and Lagiewniki estates. It served as the summer residence of the Heinzl family. After World War II, the building housed a dormitory and an outpost of the Citizen's Voluntary Reserve Militia (ORMO). In 1976 the villa was taken over by the Provincial Sports and Recreation Center, which in 1982 sold it to a private investor, who then created the "Daria" Hotel in it. The building appeared in the 2001 film "Reich" by Wladyslaw Pasikowski. The building is a representative of historicizing - eclectic architecture. It was built on a rectangular plan, and in its western corner there is a turret on a square plan. The villa has 2 stories and a high mansard, gabled roof, having dormers on both slopes. Historic stables, belonging to the villa, are also located on the property.

Address: 2/4 Studencka Street in the Arturówek area of Lodz

One of the best examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Poland and Europe. It was designed around 1901 by Gustav Landau-Gutenteger, and was built in 1902-1903. Since 1975, the villa has housed a branch of the Municipal Art Gallery (Willa Gallery). The facade of the building is richly decorated with floral elements. The villa is approached through an entrance with a portico supported by sculptures of two apple trees. Hence its other name - "villa under the apple trees". Particularly rich is the framing of one of the first floor windows depicting two trees with lush crowns and tangled roots, in which a fox hides. The first floor consists of a study and two exhibition rooms, the interiors of which are decorated in the Art Nouveau style with stucco decoration in the form of chestnut leaves, rose blossoms, apple blossoms, poppies, and a music corner with smaller multicolored stained glass windows. The original stained glass windows have also been preserved: in the staircase window, depicting a barefoot woman in a green tunic and with flowers in her hair, as a representation of the goddess of mornings - Dawn. The windows of the villa, in accordance with the principles of Art Nouveau architecture, have different shapes, no two are identical, some are shielded by decorative grilles with wavy arches.

Address: 31 Wólczanska Street

The villa of Edward Herbst - a pearl of Lodz residences, impressive interiors of the villa presenting the lifestyle of a wealthy factory owner family, and now a branch of the Museum of Art in Lodz - this is how the Herbst Palace Museum can be described in a nutshell. The villa was built in 1876, designed by urban architect Hilary Majewski, who gave it the unique form of a Neo-Renaissance residence. The aesthetic qualities of the villa are largely emphasized by the surrounding garden, giving the whole establishment the character of a country residence. The residence was meticulously renovated in 2011-2013. The interior is complemented by the exhibition "Herbsts. Unfinished Stories" describing the fate of two generations of the Herbst family living in the villa. In turn, a collection of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries is exhibited in the former stable.

Address: 72 Przędzalniana Street

The villa was built according to a design by architect Ignacy Stebelski in 1903-1904 on what was then Placowa Street. The building was designed on German and English patterns of "irregular architecture" for Reinhold Richter. Adjacent to it was the villa of his brother Joseph Richter, built a few years earlier, with which it was connected by a park. A magnificent example of architecture combining elements of Art Nouveau, Neo-Renaissance and Mannerism in the body of a factory owner's villa from the early 20th century. Currently, the historic Reinhold Richter building serves the rector of the Lodz University of Technology. After several years of restoration (fire in 2016), it has regained its former splendor. The place deserves special attention in early spring, when the bulbs are in bloom. It is beautiful!

Address: 6/8 Skorupki Street

The summer house of Theodor Steigert is a wooden summer villa, built around 1900 The building is a representative of Swiss-style architecture, referring to architecture from Alpine resorts The building has typical rich carving, columns and friezes. The building itself was made of wood and placed on a foundation. Decorative as well as utilitarian functions are performed by balconies, galleries and verandas. The Teodor Steigert House is one of the few buildings of this type that have survived to the present day in Lodz. One more building in this style is the villa of Ludwig Meyer, as well as former outbuildings that once also belonged to the entrepreneur Ludwig Meyer.

Address: 49/51 Popioły Street

This classicist villa was built in 1882, constructed as the home of French factory owner Léon Allart and his family. The entrepreneur built it opposite his factory. The villa represents the Classicist style of architecture. The building has a distinctive front elevation with a substantial balcony, supported by brackets, and having pillars topped with balls and vases. The building's façade, moreover, has cornices, rustication, as well as pilasters with capitals in the Ionic order. The building is also distinguished by a facade with an attic and a wolf's-eye. On the side of the courtyard, the villa has a risalite topped by a terrace, as well as a facade with a window in the form of a trillium. The ornament of the residence is not only an exquisitely preserved hall with a staircase - with stained glass windows, stucco and wall paintings, but also.... a porcelain double washbasin from the 19th century, located in the upstairs bathroom.

Address: 38 Wróblewskiego Street

The building at 17 Tuwima Street is a pearl of Lodz architecture, although it was not entered in the Register of Historic Places until 2006. It was built in 1883 as a result of the expansion of a simple weaver's house into a small but richly decorated residence. This small building has a rich, unique and varied interior design of great historical and artistic value. There is very valuable stucco, polychrome, stained glass and decorative window woodwork. The architectural details are also unusual for Lodz, as they represent the Neo-Mannerist style, a rare example in Lodz architecture of decor with forms of German Renaissance and Dutch Mannerism. The renovated building was made available to the consulates of the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Albania.

Address: 17 Tuwima Street

Lodz Park of Urban Culture (formerly Skansen Lodzkiej Architektury Drewnianej) - on its territory there are eight historical buildings, typical of the buildings of Lodz in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The buildings were relocated from various places in and around Lodz. They were selected to best and most fully represent the old wooden architecture of the city. The buildings have been carefully restored, partially reconstructed and thermally modernized. The park includes 5 wooden houses relocated from Wólczańska, Żeromskiego, Kopernika and Mazowiecka Streets, a villa relocated from Scaleniowa Street in Ruda Pabianicka, a wooden St. Andrew Bobola Church translocated from Nowosolna, and a wooden streetcar waiting room from Zgierz's terminus at Jana Kilińskiego Square.

Address: 282 Piotrkowska Street

The residence was built in 1895-1896 to a design by Piotr Brukalski. The building was constructed for Eugeniusz Geyer (son of Ludwik) and his wife Jadwiga. In 1903 it was slightly rebuilt. The building belonged to the Geyer family until 1945, when it was nationalized. After 1945 it was, among other things, a dental clinic of the University of Lodz. In 1956, the villa was expanded with a northeast wing. Later it was taken over by the State Sanitary Inspectorate and houses the headquarters of the District Sanitary and Epidemiological Station. The building was erected on a plan similar to a square. Its architecture is kept in the historical architectural trend and refers to the Italian Renaissance and Mannerism. The building has decorative portals around the entrances, triangular pediments with cartouche motifs, located above the windows. Historically, on the northwest side of the villa there was a terrace with a descent to the garden, which over time was walled and transformed into a veranda. Inside, the building features ornate woodwork and neo-Renaissance floral ceiling stucco.

Address: 10 Stanislaw Przybyszewski Street

This is an eclectic villa built for Ludwik Geyer's son and located in close proximity to the Geyer factories stretching along Piotrkowska Street. It is surrounded by a garden, originally extending from Piotrkowska Street to Wólczańska Street, later greatly reduced. The villa is set on a near-square plan with risalits. The first floor is decorated with boniae, on the first floor the windows are framed with decorative aediculae, on the south side there is a tripartite Venetian window. A main entrance preceded by a small staircase and shielded by an iron openwork glazed canopy is located to the east. The interior uses a three-tract layout. The vestibule to the east, with a single flight staircase framed by oak balustrades, leads through a wide opening framed by columns to a centrally located hall with a Neo-Renaissance design.

Address: 3 Czerwona Street

The villa was incorporated into a factory complex built slightly earlier and located in the southwestern part of the quarter enclosed by Tylna Street. Adjacent to the spinning mill, in 1881, Ludwik Grohman erected a magnificent residence with a courtyard enclosed by an outbuilding and adjacent orangery, surrounded by a garden. The villa, maintained in the Italian Renaissance style, was built according to a design by Hilary Majewski. The first floor, unlike most villas, had an irregular interior layout, as there were both formal and residential rooms. The interior utility program was basically traditional, with a dining room, cupboard room, library, living room, study rooms, ballroom, etc. Particularly interesting are the study with a fireplace, the concert hall and the ballroom with original chandeliers preserved in it. Internal communication was supplemented by elevators - a passenger one and three utility elevators, made by a Berlin company. The interiors were decorated with great splendor and luxury, with rich stucco and decorations with allegorical paintings and sculptural representations.

Address: 9/11 Tylna Street

Like a castle from a fairy tale, surrounded by greenery.... this is how the historic villa at 243 Wólczańska St. was built in 1903-1905 for the Lodz factory owner Karol Bennisch (son of Wilhelm and Helena née Bennich Hüffer). Brothers Wilhelm and Teodor Hüffer had their tricot factory (nationalized after World War II. Famous "Wólczanka") near the villa, and probably for this reason ownership of the villa was attributed to the Hüffers. Over the years the building changed owners. In 1933 it housed a hostel for elderly Jewish intelligentsia "Zacisze". During World War II, the NSDAP had its headquarters there. After the end of hostilities, the villa passed to the state treasury and a company nursery and kindergarten were placed there. In 1961, the Medical Training College became the new user. Then in 1968, offices of the "Wólczanka" factory (former Hüffer factory) were located inside the historic villa.

Address: 243 Wólczańska Street

Jakub Icek Kestenberg purchased a plot of land at the intersection of Cegielniana (now Jaracza) and Nowo Targowa (now Sterling) Streets in 1893, on which he erected a woolen goods factory by 1900. Franciszek Chelminski designed the residence in 1902, and it was completed a year later. The villa is a two-story building with a varied interior layout on both floors - due to its functions. The first floor housed commercial and administrative premises, the floor above - residential and administrative. The residence is covered with a mansard roof (it was expanded 50 years later). The elevation of the residence from the side of Jaracza Street has a villa character, and from the side of Sterling Street a palace one. It is varied with balconies, bay windows and terraces. It is covered with quite rich ornamentation of Viennese Art Nouveau, where floral decoration prevails. One can also see elements of classical origin, such as pilasters topped with capitals of stylized acanthus leaves, teardrop motifs, cube frieze, volute flows. On the garden side, a columned porch with a polygonal tower, housing a staircase.

Address: 26 Seweryna Sterlinga Street

The villa was built between 1923-1928 to the order of Jezajasz Kestenberg, son of Jakub Kestenberg. The author of the building's design was Jerzy Münz. It is mistakenly believed that the first owner of the building was Maria Lange. In fact, on July 27, 1922 she sold the property to the Kestenberg couple, on which the villa, which still exists today, was subsequently built. It is possible that another house was previously located on the same site, but elements of which have not survived to the present day. Due to financial problems, in 1938 Jezajasz Kestenberg began to negotiate with the city authorities about the possibility of renting the villa to establish a tourist hostel in it. However, it was eventually sold at auction on June 19, 1939 to the Chamber of Agriculture, which moved its headquarters to the building from 92 Piotrkowska Street.

Address: 59 prez. Gabriela Narutowicza Street

It was built in 1904-1905 for Lodz entrepreneur Leon Rappaport. The design of the building is attributed to architects David Landy and Gustav Landau-Gutenteger, according to whose plans several other Art Nouveau buildings in the city were built. The two-story, basement building, built of dark red brick, was covered with smooth plaster with rich light stucco decorations with floral motifs, enriched with dark rustication and dark rough plaster, mainly covering the cusps of the window arches. A characteristic element of the villa is a square staircase in the shape of a tower, covered with a sloping roof. Its interiors still have richly decorated stucco.

Address: 44 Revolution of 1905 Street

Neo-Renaissance villa from 1887 designed by Julius Jung for Ludwig Meyer. The villa was designed in the Neo-Renaissance style. The building was horseshoe-shaped. Originally it had 2 impressive risalits, balconies, as well as a portico with a terrace, pilasters between the windows and columns with heads with acanthus leaves. Among the architectural details, the rustications on the facade of the first floor have been preserved. The "Trianon" villa is one of six villas built in the 1880s by Ludwig Meyer on Moniuszki Street (formerly Meyer Passage). The investor expected the capital of the guberniya to be moved from Piotrkow Trybunalski to the rapidly developing Lodz, and therefore hoped that officials and dignitaries would become residents of his villa. However, the relocation of the guberniya's capital did not materialize, and the investor was left with substantial loans to repay, so he desperately sought tenants. Among them was Bronislaw Wilkoszewski, who occupied an apartment and atelier, located in a glassed-in veranda between the wings of the mansion.

Address: 5 Moniuszki Street

Ludwik Heinzl's summer villa, built in 1896. The building was completed in 1896 for Ludwik Heinzl, heir to Arturówek and Lagiewniki estates. It served as the summer residence of the Heinzl family. After World War II, the building housed a dormitory and an outpost of the Citizen's Voluntary Reserve Militia (ORMO). In 1976 the villa was taken over by the Provincial Sports and Recreation Center, which in 1982 sold it to a private investor, who then created the "Daria" Hotel in it. The building appeared in the 2001 film "Reich" by Wladyslaw Pasikowski. The building is a representative of historicizing - eclectic architecture. It was built on a rectangular plan, and in its western corner there is a turret on a square plan. The villa has 2 stories and a high mansard, gabled roof, having dormers on both slopes. Historic stables, belonging to the villa, are also located on the property.

Address: 2/4 Studencka Street in the Arturówek area of Lodz