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   Centennial Hall

   Max Berg's hall of 1913, whose reinforced concrete dome of sixty-five metres was the largest in the world when built — a structural leap that made later domes possible. It was raised for the centenary of the war against Napoleon and became World Heritage in 2006.

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   Wrocław Cathedral

   The archcathedral of St John the Baptist on Cathedral Island, the fourth church raised on the spot and among the first Gothic buildings in Poland, begun in 1244. Burnt out in 1945 and rebuilt, it carries twin neo-Gothic spires, and a lift climbs one for the view over the Oder.

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   National Museum in Wrocław

   One of the main branches of the Polish national museum, holding medieval Silesian sculpture and a large collection of Polish art brought west from Lwów after 1945 — the museum's history is itself the history of Poland's shifted borders.

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   Racławice Panorama

   A cyclorama fifteen metres high and a hundred and fourteen round, painted in 1894, showing a battle in which Kościuszko's peasant scythemen beat Russian troops. Communist Poland kept it rolled up for decades because the enemy in it was Russia; it went on show in 1985.

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   Wrocław Zoological Garden

   The oldest zoo in Poland, opened in 1865, whose Afrykarium of 2014 is the only facility in Europe devoted solely to African aquatic habitats — the Nile, the Mozambique reef and the Congo, in a single building.

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   The Market Square

   A medieval market square, one of the largest in Europe, with the town hall standing free in the middle of it rather than on one side. The whole square was rebuilt after 1945 from a state of near-total ruin.

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   St. Elizabeth’s Church Wrocław

   A brick Gothic basilica in Wrocław, Poland, in the care of the Catholic Third Order of Saint Francis.

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   Wrocław Town Hall

   A town hall built and extended over two and a half centuries, so its east gable is late Gothic showpiece work and its west end is plain. The beer cellar beneath it has been serving since 1273 and claims to be the oldest restaurant in Europe.

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   Wrocław water tower

   A water tower of 1904 built as a castle keep in brick and stone, because German municipal engineering of the period thought utilities should look monumental. A restaurant occupies it now and the machinery is gone.

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    Church of St. Vincent

    A Gothic cathedral in Wroclaw's Old Town, now the seat of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy. Founded as a Franciscan church in the 13th century and later given to the Premonstratensians, it holds the burials of Silesian Piast dukes and is a listed Historic Monument of Poland.

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   Cathedral Island

   The oldest part of the city, on what was an island in the Oder until a branch was filled in — the name has stayed anyway. Its gas lamps are lit by hand every evening by a lamplighter in a cloak, which is not a reconstruction but an unbroken job.

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   Olympic Stadium in Wrocław

   A stadium of 1928 built by the Germans as a sports complex for Breslau, holding about eleven thousand, and now used for speedway and American football. Speedway is a serious sport in this city and fills it.

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   White Stork Synagogue

   A neoclassical synagogue of 1829 by Carl Ferdinand Langhans, which survived the war because burning it would have endangered the German buildings around it. It was restored over a decade and rededicated in 2010, and is now the centre of Jewish Wrocław.

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   Wrocław Medical University

   A medical university that separated from the older university's medical faculty, whose campus is the row of red-brick clinics along the Oder — built as the teaching hospitals of German Breslau and in continuous use since.

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   Iglica

   A needle-shaped monument in Wrocław in Poland. It stood 106 metres high when it was raised in 1948; ten metres were taken off the top during repairs, so it now stands at ninety.

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   Wrocław Palace

   The Prussian kings' town palace in Wrocław, built from 1717 and used by Frederick the Great. It now holds the city museum, and its baroque garden has been replanted; the rooms in which the Prussian king declared war on Napoleon in 1813 are shown.

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   St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wrocław

   A thirteenth-century Gothic church in Wrocław, Poland, standing between Szewska and Łaciarska streets near the main market square.

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   Wrocław Opera

   An opera house of 1841 in the old town, burned and rebuilt twice in the nineteenth century. It has become known for staging productions outdoors and in unlikely places — in the market square, on the island, and once on the river itself.

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   Monopol Hotel

   A historic five-star hotel on Helena Modrzejewska Street in Wrocław in Poland. It opened in 1892, and Picasso, Pablo Neruda and Marlene Dietrich all stayed in it.

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    Workplace and House Exhibition

    A housing estate built for the Dwelling and Workplace Exhibition held at Wrocław in 1929. The Silesian committee of the Deutscher Werkbund organised it and local architects took part.

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