Architecture sights in Wrocław
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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.
The eastern façade reflects the stages of the town hall's development, split into three distinct elements. The segment to the right, with its austere early-Gothic features, is the oldest, while the delicate carving in the section to the left shows elements of the early Renaissance style. Prisoners' sentences were once read aloud from the little loggia. The central section dates from the 16th century and is topped by an ornamented triangular r…
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Centennial Hall
The Centennial 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. The unusual 96m-high steel Spire (Iglica) in front of the entrance was built in 1948 on the occasion of the Exhibition of the Regained Territories.
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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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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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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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