About Lodz
Briefly about Lodz
Lodz is the second largest city in Poland (after Warsaw) with about 800,000 inhabitants. Lodz lies 135 kilometres away from Warsaw (the journey by train takes about one hour and a half, or two hours when you take the Polski Express bus). The city is the main centre of textile industry (one of the most important in the world). Other branches developed here including clothing and chemical industries.
Lodz is also a significant cultural and scientific centre with numerous public and private universities, a research centre of the Polish Academy of Science, radio broadcasting stations and a TV centre. Our city is the biggest film making centre in Poland, with the National Film, Television and Theatre School and film production companies.
Now Lodz is one of the most modern centres of commerce, business and science. The landmarks of the city history are such monuments as: a baroque church and a Franciscan cloister from the 18th century in Lagiewniki, a neoclassical town-hall (1827), enormous old factories and residencies of the celebrated Jewish and German industrialist families the Poznanskis, the Hertzs and the Scheiblers, the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe and Piotrkowska street the longest shopping precinct in Europe with Art Nouveau buildings. In the city there are many cinemas, theatres, the Lodz Philharmony named after Artur Rubinstein and The Lodz Opera House.
More information about Lodz in English may be found at: http://en.uml.lodz.pl/
Lodz is the second largest city in Poland (after Warsaw) with about 800,000 inhabitants. Lodz lies 135 kilometres away from Warsaw (the journey by train takes about one hour and a half, or two hours when you take the Polski Express bus). The city is the main centre of textile industry (one of the most important in the world). Other branches developed here including clothing and chemical industries.
Lodz is also a significant cultural and scientific centre with numerous public and private universities, a research centre of the Polish Academy of Science, radio broadcasting stations and a TV centre. Our city is the biggest film making centre in Poland, with the National Film, Television and Theatre School and film production companies.
Now Lodz is one of the most modern centres of commerce, business and science. The landmarks of the city history are such monuments as: a baroque church and a Franciscan cloister from the 18th century in Lagiewniki, a neoclassical town-hall (1827), enormous old factories and residencies of the celebrated Jewish and German industrialist families the Poznanskis, the Hertzs and the Scheiblers, the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe and Piotrkowska street the longest shopping precinct in Europe with Art Nouveau buildings. In the city there are many cinemas, theatres, the Lodz Philharmony named after Artur Rubinstein and The Lodz Opera House.
More information about Lodz in English may be found at: http://en.uml.lodz.pl/