Solo trips: Bałuty-Centrum

a former cotton mill turned into a town of shopping, culture and entertainment

an eclectic palace nicknamed the Łódź Louvre, now home to the city's museum

in Poznański's former spinning mill on the Manufaktura site, a permanent collection of 20th and 21st century art

an interactive science museum in Manufaktura with 70 exhibits, a Space Tunnel and VR games

on Manufaktura's upper floor, in a former fabric print house, the story of Poznański's factory-and-housing empire

a wooden church from the late 18th century, moved to its current site at the end of the 19th century

Łódź's oldest parish, its neo-Gothic interior holds a Gothic triptych in the main altar

a manufacturer's residence turned into a seat of learning with recreated stained glass

a three-nave basilica in Radogoszcz, its cornerstone blessed by John Paul II, upper church open since 2012

an 1912 coach house of the Biedermann palace, now a university gallery pairing art with academic research

a 36 by 8 metre Mikołaj Rejs mural on Manufaktura's facade, a fairy-tale underwater world painted in spray

a church built from 1927, destroyed by the Germans in 1942, rebuilt with an added tower in 1999-2000

an OTECKI mural on Rybna street, cubist forms blended with Slavic folklore and folk paper-cutting motifs

Łódź's only Polish Catholic parish, in a 1925 brick church originally built for a Baptist community

a cultural centre in Bałuty set in industrialist Samuel Brzeziński's interwar villa

the ROZGRYWKA branch focuses on board games, opening a garden with boule, badminton and XXL chess in summer

a mural on Spacerowa Street depicts Dawid Sierakowiak, a young chronicler of the Łódź ghetto

Poland's first poem-mural, in Polish and Hebrew, dedicated to a resident of a ghetto tenement

a mural on Franciszkańska 24 depicts Salek Berliński, a child deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau

a portrait of Zisele Świerc, called Zosia, the five-year-old daughter of a Bałuty shoemaker

a mural on Organizacji WiN Street honours the founder of Poland's first University of the Third Age

a portrait on Łagiewnicka 35 was painted for the 75th anniversary of deportations to the ghetto

another portrait of a Jewish ghetto boy, on Łagiewnicka 33, a few doors from its twin mural

a former Łódź brewer's estate from 1900, now a Bałuty neighbourhood park with a villa in need of repair