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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] Tourists often walk around the city with a map trying to find all of them.
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 .
Wrocław is home to the Wroclaw Feature Film Studio (Wytwórnia Filmów Fabularnych), the Film Stuntman School, ATM Grupa, Grupa 13, and Polot Media (formerly Tako Media). [226] Film directors Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Sylwester Chęciński, among others, made their film debuts in Wrocław.
Medieval arms from castle Lauf, around 1360 - the only surviving example of this design.. In the centre is the severed head of John the Baptist, the city's patron saint.The crowned lion rampant in the first (upper left) quarter represents the Kingdom of Bohemia, which Wrocław became part of upon the death of Duke Henry VI of Silesia in 1335.
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.
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".
The Market Square (Polish: Rynek, German: Großer Ring) is a medieval market square located in Wrocław, Poland.The square is rectangular with the dimensions 213 by 178 metres (699 ft × 584 ft) and serves as a pedestrian zone.
The Old Town in Wrocław (Polish: Stare Miasto we Wrocławiu) is the oldest part of the left-bank Wrocław, originating from the thirteenth century.It is surrounded by the City Moat, a remnant of the complex system of fortifications, largely based on natural and artificial sections of the Oder River and the Oława River flowing into it.