“I am Wroclaw! Get to know me and Love me even more” Free Summer Walks in Wroclaw: July.

This is the time of the year when you get to have some free evening time so think of doing something for yourself and explore the city you live in. There is enough daylight to complete the daily routine and enough time to go out and do the free summer walks around Wroclaw’s nicest places.

Wroclaw City Guides and the city Promotion department are inviting you to join their well organised, exciting and interesting walks down the streets of Wroclaw. Why? Because Wroclaw deserves to be talked about. 😉

Most of the walks are accompanied by a Polish guide, but there are a few tours for those special Expats who would like to get to know the city’s history and admire its hidden beauty.

Here are the walks run in foreign languages:

July 7, 2019, Sunday

Language: Russian
Duration: 2 hours
Meeting Time: 11am
Place: Barbara’s Infopoint ul. Swidnicka
Route: Streets and squares of the Old Town.
Cast: 1 guide

Old Town Promenade: defensive walls, a walking boulevard – what they have in common, culture and architecture of the nineteenth century Wroclaw.

July 14, 2019, Sunday

Language: English
Duration: 2 hours.
Meeting time: 11.00
Place: Barbara’s Infopoint.
Route: streets and squares of the Old Town: m.in. Market, around the University, District of Mutual Respect.
Cast: 1 guide

1000 years of Wroclaw’s history – a cross-sectional tour of the Old Town: Market Square, university area and the District of Mutual Respect.

21 JULY 2019, Sunday

Language: German
Duration: 2 hours.
Meeting time 11.00
Place: Barbara’s Infopoint.
Route: Streets and squares of the Old Town: m.in. Market, around the University, District of Mutual Respect.
Cast: 1 guide

1000 Years of Wrocław’s History” – a cross-sectional tour of the Old Town: the Market Square, the university area and the District of Mutual Respect. A trip in German.

Staromiejska Promenade 21 JULY 2019, Sunday

Language: Russian.
Meeting time: 11am
Place: at Barbara’s Infopoint.
Route: From the Old Town Park through Plac Wolności to pl. Jana Pawla II.
Cast: 1 guide

A walk through an unusual area in the city center, an oasis of greenery, surrounded by historic buildings with an extremely interesting genesis. The area of former fortifications. What do they have in common, culture and architecture of the nineteenth century Wroclaw.

28 JULY 2019, Sunday

Languages: Czech and Russian
Duration: 2 hours
Meeting time: 11.00
Place: at Barbara’s Infopoint.
Route: m.in. Market, around the University, District of Mutual Respect.
Cast: 2 guides

1000 years of Wrocław’s history – a cross-sectional tour of the Old Town: Market Square, the University area and the District of Mutual Respect.

If you don’t mind Polish speaking Guide, feel free to join the bicycle city tours, the most interesting seem to be the following:

Wroclaw, which is no longer there July 6, 2019, Saturday

Bicycle trip, duration 3 hours.

Journey through the neighbourhoods of the north-west part of Wrocław, which have changed dramatically in recent years. We will also visit places where life once lived, and today they have been completely forgotten.

Meeting with a guide at 10am on the corner of ul. Lotnicza / Milenijna- the “Pilka” square near Park Zachodni.
Route: West Park (square “Pilka” – corner of Lotnicza / Milenijna St.) – Pilczyce – Kozanów – Maślice – Janówek-Pracze Odrzanskie – Stabłowice – Pilczyce – Park Zachodni / square “Pilka” ul. Lotnicza /, Milenijna.

Cast: 2 guides

A loop of four rivers July 13, 2019, Saturday

Bicycle trip, duration 3 hours. (approximately 40 km)

A suggestion of a different view of the city. Going along the route along four rivers we will get to know its history from a different perspective, nature and landscape.

Meeting with a guide at 10.00, ul. John the Evangelist Purkyni at the Gondola Bay.
Route: Gondola Bay – ul. Na Grobli – Grobla Szczytnicko-Bartoszowicka – Grobla Łaniewska – Grobla Strachocińsko-Kowalska – Grobla Widawsko-Kłokoczycka – along the Odra-Widawa Odra Canal – Grobes Lesicka, Rędzińska, Osobowicka. The end of the route at the tram terminus in Osobowice.

Cast: 2 guides

Cycling into space July 20, 2019, Saturday

Bicycle trip, duration 3 hours.

Journey through the neighbourhoods of the south-western part of Wrocław, whose history is inseparably connected with aviation. We will pass through the area of the former airport and we will find out how it was possible to fly from Wroclaw to space.

Meeting with a guide at 10.00 at the corner of ul. Lotnicza / Milenijna – the “Pilka” square near Park Zachodni.
Route: Park Zachodni (square “Pilka” – the corner of Lotnicza / Milenijna Street) – Gądów Mały – Kuźniki – Żerniki (Dom Kosmonauty) – Railway Station Wrocław-Żerniki

Cast: 2 guides