Solo trips: Śródmieście / Centrum

an opera house opened in 1967, with one of Europe's largest stages, hosting opera and ballet

Poland's oldest continuously running cinema, open since 1907, still screening on 35mm film

a drama theatre running continuously since 1945, now with two stages and the Silver Gloria Artis Medal

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

a socially engaged theatre institution, successor to Teatr 77, in a restored former Hasidic synagogue

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

a colourful geometric portrait of pianist Artur Rubinstein facing the Łódź Philharmonic

an art gallery in Sienkiewicz Park since 1924, in an 1904 pavilion, focused on avant-garde art

the fresco 'Łódź w Pigułce' shows 31 notable citizens against a trompe-l'oeil facade

an art club and gallery on Piotrkowska, home to the Łódź Kaliska group, with concerts and alt cinema

the 2001 mural 'Łódka' covers almost a thousand square metres of a tenement facade

a drama theatre founded in 1949, with a main stage and an intimate studio stage on Zachodnia

a historic ring-shaped water reservoir deep beneath Plac Wolności, telling the story of Łódź's sewers

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

bookbinding and papermaking workshops let visitors craft their own sheet of paper

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

Łódź's Walk of Fame from 1996, over 90 stars of Polish film creators along the pedestrian street

a 2016 mural by Etam Cru and Robert Proch on a car park wall in Strefa OFF Piotrkowska

the mural Sentir by Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz on Kilińskiego street, a heart linked to a dragonfly and tree

a bar on Piotrkowska since 2015, a café by day and a stage for alternative music by night

a literary institution since 1982 in the neo-baroque Gesner tenement, hosting the Puls Literatury festival

contemporary art gallery inside a historic Piotrkowska tenement house

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