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Aula Leopoldinum
The Aula Leopoldinum is found on the 1st floor of the main edifice of the University of Wrocław. Embellished with elaborate stucco work, sculptures, paintings and a trompe l'œil ceiling fresco, it's the city's best Baroque interior. The more modest Oratorium Marianum, on the ground floor, is included in the admission fee. Classical music concerts are occasionally held here. You can also climb the Mathematical Tower.
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Centenary Hall
Centenary Hall, also called the People's Hall (Hala Ludowa), is a huge, round, 6000-seat auditorium, built in 1913 and added to Unesco's World Heritage list in 2007. Designed by German architect Max Berg and opened to mark the centenary of Napoleon's defeat by allied European forces in 1813, the hall is topped with a huge dome measuring 65m in diameter - a remarkable achievement in its day.
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Church of the Holy Name of Jesus
The Baroque-Rococo Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, the university church and arguably the city's most beautiful, was built in the 1690s on the site of the former Piast castle. Its spacious interior, crammed with ornate fittings and adorned with fine illusionist frescoes of the life of Jesus on its vaulting, is quite spectacular.
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Hansel and Gretel
Set in the northwestern corner of the Rynek are two charming houses called Hansel and Gretel, linked by a Baroque archway from 1728, which once led to the church cemetery. (The inscription in Latin reads 'Death is the gateway to life.') To the west of Hansel is a tiny bronze of a gnome taking a nap on his secret treasure; it's one of 15 such statues in the city.
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Mathematical Tower
The Mathematical Tower, in main edifice of the University of Wrocław, is topped with a sphere and decorated with allegorical figures.
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Passage Sculpture
About 500m south of the Franciscan Church of SS Stanislaus, Wenceslas and Dorothy, south of the Old Town, is a fascinating sculpture called Passage, which shows a group of seven bronze pedestrians literally being swallowed into the pavement, only to re-emerge on the other side of the street. It's by Jerzy Kalina and was unveiled in 2005 to mark the 24th anniversary of the declaration of martial law.
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Racławice Panorama
Wrocław's pride and joy is the Racławice Panorama. Housed in a cylindrical building in a park southwest of the National Museum (a ticket to the panorama also allows entry to the National Museum on the same day), it's a cyclorama, a giant canvas painting measuring 15m by 114m and wrapped around the internal walls of the rotunda.
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Rynek
Rynek, Wrocław's market square, is Poland's second biggest after the one in Kraków. The Rynek was laid out in the 1240s and lined with timber houses, which were later replaced with brick structures. They gradually changed over the centuries, adopting the architectural style of the day. The north and south sides were completely destroyed during WWII but have since been rebuilt; they offer an appealing amalgam of architectural styles from Gothic to Art Nouveau.
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Town Hall Complex
The central Town Hall Complex is so large that it incorporates three internal streets. The main structure took almost two centuries (1327-1504) to complete, and work on the 66m-high tower and decoration continued for another century.
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