Our Łódź

Łódź in a nutshell

Geografy:

The center of Poland and Europe, located at the intersection of the most important European highways A1 and A2

Area – 283.2 square kilometers

The fourth agglomeration in Poland, 660 thousand inhabitants in Łódź, and over 1.1 million in the Łódź agglomeration

Education:

21 universities (19 public), including the University of Technology and the largest Polish medical university - the Medical University, providing investors with comprehensively educated employees

The most important in Poland and famous worldwide Film School (Łódź is one of the 64 cities in the world admitted to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a City of Film)

Attractions:

Piotrkowska Street - the historic axis of Łódź, 4.2 km long, with numerous revitalized Art Nouveau tenement houses and former factories, monuments and historical souvenirs. Many of these facilities are now bustling places of culture, trade and entertainment

Revitalized 19th century factory owners' palaces and tenement houses, including those at Włókiennicza Street

Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Cinematography - the only one in Poland

Textile Museum – the most important in Central Europe

EC-1 Science and Technology Center

Dialogue Center named after Marek Edelman - a modern institution that deals with the memory, history and identity of Łódź - a city of four cultures

An old historic Jewish cemetery - the largest in Poland and one of the largest in Europe with the mausoleum of the manufacturer Izrael Poznański 

Księży Młyn (Priest Mill) – a revitalized industrial estate from the 19th century

Poznański Palace and the revitalized Manufaktura - formerly the largest textile factory in Łódź, where Andrzej Wajda shot his most famous film - an Oscar candidate - The Promised Land

Sport and Recreation:

Aquapark Fala with recreational and park facilities

Atlas Arena - a modern sports and entertainment hall for several thousand spectators, with regular sports and cultural events, as well as concerts of world stars

Over 30 beautiful city parks plus Łagiewnicki Forest - the largest urban forest in Poland