Architecture: Śródmieście / Centrum

a nearly 4.2-kilometre spine of historicist and Art Nouveau buildings, one of Poland's longest pedestrian streets

a historic Orthodox church by a former orphanage from the late 19th century, with a golden onion dome

a manufacturer's tenement turned into a stage for young art

a courtyard covered in hand-cut mirrors by Joanna Rajkowska, an installation from 2014

the main altar and a 31-stop organ funded by Karol Scheibler, the interior holds six altars in total

an 1828 classicist church, originally Lutheran, recognisable by its orange dome

contemporary art gallery inside a historic Piotrkowska tenement house

an 1909 Art Nouveau fashion house, now Cafe Esplanada, open under that name since 1926

a church funded by industrialist Karol Scheibler, a red-brick neo-romanesque building now run by Jesuits

a neo-Renaissance building from 1878-1881, a former credit society seat, now a rented event venue

an 1896 eclectic tenement, its cellar houses the Przechowalnia art club

an 1882 factory owner's palace, now the city hall, where a bugle call has sounded at noon since 1998

a neo-Baroque palace from 1912-1913, home since 1959 to the Spatif club, a haunt of Łódź's film bohemia

a pastel tram shelter with a wavy stained-glass Art Nouveau roof, a popular photo spot

an eclectic villa from 1923-1925 by a Viennese architect, now a residents' service centre

one of Łódź's two active synagogues, set up in 1998 inside the Jewish community's headquarters

the only prewar Łódź synagogue that survived the occupation through a sham sale

an 1867 neo-Gothic steam brewery complex, one of Łódź's first modern breweries, still operating

the tenement stands on the site of the weaving settlement's first tavern, from 1827

an 1864 eclectic tenement, it hosted Reymont in 1897 gathering material for his novel

an 1898-1899 trading house with an Art Nouveau facade mural uncovered in 1996

an 1860s eclectic tenement, the Sachs family made paints, glues and matches under it

an eclectic facade blending Renaissance, Baroque and Empire styles, near plac Wolności

an 1893 tenement, right by it stands the popular Miś Uszatek bear statue