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Wrocław Dwarves or Wrocław Gnomes (Polish: Wrocławskie krasnale) are small figurines (20–30 cm) that have appeared in the streets of Wrocław, Poland since 2005. The dwarves are a major tourist attraction for the city, which is the third largest in Poland . [ 1 ]
The word krasnal ogrodowy is also used to describe garden gnomes. In the city of Wrocław, a bronze statue honoring the Orange Alternative, an anti-communist social movement whose mascot is a krasnoludek dwarf, has inspired hundreds of other dwarf statues around the city that have since become a popular tourist attraction, the Wrocław Dwarfs.
The beginnings of the Orange Alternative are in a student movement called the Movement for New Culture created in 1980 at the University of Wrocław. It is in that year that Waldemar "Major" Fydrych, one of the movement's founders, proclaims the Socialist Surrealism Manifesto, [5] which becomes the ideological backbone behind a gazette known as "The Orange Alternative".
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Islands in Wrocław, with the Cathedral Island on the right. The Cathedral Island (Polish: Ostrów Tumski, [ˈɔstruf ˈtumski], German: Dominsel, [ˈdoːmɪnzəl]) is the oldest part of the city of Wrocław in south-western Poland. It was formerly an island (Old Polish: ostrów) between branches of the Oder River. Today it is the city's ...
A British woman took to Facebook to try and solve a mystery that developed overnight outside her home -- who left 100 garden gnomes (107 to be exact) on her front walk and why? HuffPost UK reports ...
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