Solo trips: Osiedle-Katedralna

a textile museum inside Łódź's first mechanised factory, with a wooden-architecture park

former scheibler mill turned into restaurants, cafes and a city square

a neo-Gothic church with a tower over 100 metres, Łódź's tallest building and episcopal seat since 1920

Łódź's oldest studio cinema, running since 1994, with five screens and its own film festivals

a drama theatre opened in 2016 inside an 1835 tenement, with seating for 372

nine wooden buildings from across Łódź gathered in one place

a cultural institution in revitalised 19th-century halls at Księży Młyn combining theatre, music and festivals

a neo-Romanesque Lutheran church known for its 1928 Rieger Orgelbau organ and regular concerts

the archdiocese's sacred art collection, also shown in Warsaw and Kraków, visits require prior booking

a grand tenement on Piotrkowska 258/260, home since 1996 to the European Institute, with stained-glass doors

an intimate Polesie park laid out in 1904 from the Richter family's factory-owner gardens

Poland's oldest continuously operating museum of its kind, with school archives on Wólczańska street

the "Silence" installation made of 1300 metal rods forming lettering on a Wólczańska Street facade

PENER's geometric abstraction in a gateway on 10 Lutego street, passed daily by residents

an 1895-1896 eclectic mansion for a dyer, its facade blends Baroque, rococo and Empire motifs

a neo-Renaissance seat of the Łódź Archdiocese from 1922-1924, viewable only from the outside

an 1909 palace on Piotrkowska, split into two independent wings for two factory-owner brothers

an eclectic residence of an iron founder from 1896-1898 on Piotrkowska, now home to the Polish Academy of Sciences

a manufacturer's grand 1910 palace with a portico, now home to the European Institute

a neo-Renaissance Scheibler family residence on Piotrkowska, rebuilt in the 1890s, now a university building

a 1903-1904 factory-owner's villa, now the Łódź University of Technology rectorate, rebuilt after a 2016 fire

a classicist building from 1828-1829, one of Łódź's oldest surviving industrial structures

an Italian Renaissance-style villa completed in 1894 for manufacturer Ludwik Grohman