Rainy day: Stare Polesie

a Venetian-inspired Neo-Renaissance palace now home to contemporary art

children and youth theatre since 1945, repertoire ranging from infant shows to plays for teenagers

a 24-lane bowling alley in the Nowa Sukcesja mall, opened in 2015, with billiards and a VR simulator

a private dance and contemporary circus stage in the former 1929 Przedwiośnie cinema

an academic sports complex from 2017, with two Olympic pools and a hall seating 650

the first Łódź multiplex of the Helios chain, opened 2015, nine screens seating nearly 2,000

a club on the site of Poland's first postwar film studio, four concert and theatre halls with an industrial feel

built as a votive offering for the 1920 Battle of Warsaw, with a mosaic copy of an icon from St Peter's Basilica

a mall reopened in 2024 after four years shut, with a Helios cinema and the Hopa Lupa play zone

a former tsarist prison from 1883-1885, telling the story of over a century of Poland's independence struggle

an experimental art gallery runs in the cellars of Kindermann's 1902 Art Nouveau villa

a large dance club in Stare Polesie for around 2,000 people, two halls, four bars, house and disco music

a city ice rink in Stary Polesie with skate rental, named after coach Olszewska-Lelonkiewicz

an independent theatre since 2009, with three halls, a gallery and café, mixing shows with concerts

a compact exhibition in former barracks, dedicated to the regiment known as the Children of Łódź

a small magic collection upstairs in a historic brewer's villa

a neo-Gothic rectory church, stage of an amateur Catholic theatre since 1987

Poland's only museum combining civilian and military medicine, with a 1613 herbal and battlefield dioramas

around 30,000 volumes of children's literature from the 18th century to modern interactive editions

the Łódź Film School's own stage in an 1870 building, home to students' annual graduation shows

a single-level shopping centre in Polesie since 2000, with an Auchan hypermarket and Decathlon

the „Pod Babą Jagą” branch in Stare Polesie for children and teens, with computer stations and disability access

the region's main library in a 1949 building, with five reading rooms and over 900,000 items

a branch in Stare Polesie, formerly numbered 9, hosting the Book Discussion Club