Information about Wrocław
Wrocław – the heart of Lower Silesia – is one of the oldest and the most beautiful places in Poland. This metropolis with over 650 thousand inhabitants concentrates diversified cultural life and multi-domain academic societies. Wrocław is also an important economic centre which continuously develops tightening relations with Europe, successively meeting new challenges coming from the whole world. The most significant progress of the city has been visible for the last several years. Its intensive infrastructural development, recently stimulated by selection of Wrocław for hosting UEFA EURO 2012, includes, among others, the erection of
a modern football stadium with over
40 thousand seats, a 35-km-long motorway bypass of the city with the second largest cable-stayed bridge in Poland, a central ring road, a new airport terminal, several hotels as well as modernization of the main railway station and the urban communication system.
The most interesting places in Wrocław are concentrated around the Market Square with a splendid gothic Town Hall, Ostrów Tumski with Cathedral and archbishop's residence, islands of the Odra River or The Centennial Hall with its vicinities. The city centre is crossed with an extensive network of the Odra River channels and tributaries making Wrocław a city of 12 islands and over 300 bridges and footbridges.
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