The big sights are the ones visiting grandparents ask about, and these are the ones kids ask to do again: bronze dwarfs hiding all over the old town, a miniature Lower Silesia full of trains, and a whole city rebuilt in bricks. Here's what we checked, from the Wrocław Dwarfs Trail to Kolejkowo.
Hundreds of small dwarf statues sit on sidewalks, ledges and lampposts around the city, each with a name and a job. Pracz watches the river level by the Oder, Gazuś lights the lamps on Tumski Bridge, and Botanik plays a nasturtium like a saxophone. Kids run ahead to spot the next one.
The figures grew out of the Orange Alternative, a 1980s protest movement that painted dwarfs on city walls.
Kolejkowo is the largest model railway exhibition in Poland, filling 1,000 square meters on the first floor of the Sky Tower. Nineteen trains run on 720 meters of track past miniature Lower Silesian buildings, from Market Square townhouses to the Śnieżka weather observatory and Świebodzki station.
The lights cycle quickly between day and night, and 6,375 tiny figures act out scenes, from road works to a fleeing thief.
A permanent exhibition of large models built from LEGO bricks on the second floor of the Sky Tower. Themed sections cover Wrocław built in bricks, architecture, a prehistoric world, cartoons, the Seven Wonders of the World, Star Wars-inspired builds and a haunted room. Standouts include a Porsche 911-inspired car, a George Harrison guitar replica and a giant Tyragon dragon. A big play zone lets kids build their own creations.
The big sights are the ones visiting grandparents ask about, and these are the ones kids ask to do again: bronze dwarfs hiding all over the old town, a miniature Lower Silesia full of trains, and a whole city rebuilt in bricks. Here's what we checked, from the Wrocław Dwarfs Trail to Kolejkowo.
Hundreds of small dwarf statues sit on sidewalks, ledges and lampposts around the city, each with a name and a job. Pracz watches the river level by the Oder, Gazuś lights the lamps on Tumski Bridge, and Botanik plays a nasturtium like a saxophone. Kids run ahead to spot the next one.
The figures grew out of the Orange Alternative, a 1980s protest movement that painted dwarfs on city walls.
Kolejkowo is the largest model railway exhibition in Poland, filling 1,000 square meters on the first floor of the Sky Tower. Nineteen trains run on 720 meters of track past miniature Lower Silesian buildings, from Market Square townhouses to the Śnieżka weather observatory and Świebodzki station.
The lights cycle quickly between day and night, and 6,375 tiny figures act out scenes, from road works to a fleeing thief.
A permanent exhibition of large models built from LEGO bricks on the second floor of the Sky Tower. Themed sections cover Wrocław built in bricks, architecture, a prehistoric world, cartoons, the Seven Wonders of the World, Star Wars-inspired builds and a haunted room. Standouts include a Porsche 911-inspired car, a George Harrison guitar replica and a giant Tyragon dragon. A big play zone lets kids build their own creations.
