Solo trips: 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

one of Łódź's largest parks, listed as a monument, with a 1920s villa, tennis courts and a concert shell

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

a BOA MISTURA mural covering over 600 square metres, a quote from Jerzy Kosiński's novel, the first in Poland

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

a former garrison Orthodox church, its onion domes removed after 1919

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 DALeast mural on Łąkowa street, a deer built from thousands of branch-like lines with hidden birds

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

an Etam Crew mural on Aleja Politechniki, illustrating Tuwim's poem W aeroplanie, 16 by 12 metres

VHILS carves the image into plaster down to the brick with a drill, the first such mural in Poland, on Kopernika street

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

another ARYZ mural, 'Still Life' on Politechniki avenue, in the artist's pastel palette

an eclectic 1904 palace built for Poznański's son, now home to a public music academy

Chilean artist INTI painted a traveller in traditional Andean dress in Polesie

the mural Czas pożarł nas by LUMP on Wólczańska street, a black-and-white communist-era-style collage critiquing advertising

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