Camerimage
The City of Lodz Office

The International Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage, known all over the world, is considered the milestone in the art of cinematography, every year gathering in Łódź many outstanding creators of the world

Arthur Rubinstein's Piano placed in front of the edifice where the famous musician used to live (78 Piootrkowska Street).

The biggest Poland's graffiti painted on the wall can be admired on the building at number 152 Piotrkowska Street.

Old postindustrial buildings, now culture-entertainment-trade center of Lodz.

The system of the monumental edifices located in ul. Ogrodowa is one of the most spectacular examples of the power of the Lodz industry of the 'steam-engine' era. A line of huge buildings opens up with the Poznański residence.

For lazy bones, some rickshaws offer rides along Piotrkowska Street. While riding along the street, you should admire beautifully restored edifices, which have been witnessing the history of Łódź for many years.

One of the most characteristic Łódź's monuments - so called Tuwim's Bench was built in honor of one of the Polish greatest poets, Julian Tuwim. It is located on Piotrkowska Street in front of the City of Lodz Office.

Łódź is home to one-of-a-kind Central Museum of Textiles seated in the Ludwig Geyer classicistic factory dating back to 1835-1837.

Piotrkowska Street is the longest shopping pedestrian street in Europe, has over 4 km long.

Old postindustrial buildings, now culture-entertainment-trade center of Lodz.

Its idea comes back to the memory of the dialogue taking place in Łódź for many successive years, the dialogue of four cultures that created Łódź: Polish, German, Jewish and Russian.

One of the largest 19th century weaving-houses of Europe can serve - next to the Poznañski factory - as the best example of a factory object of the times of the Łódź prosperity.

The monument of the Jews from the ghetto in Lodz.

One of the most popular spots in Lodz - Piotrkowska Street with many cafes, restaurants and shops is always full of life.

Łódź is a green city with more than 30 parks, Poland's largest botanical gardens (in the picture above) and the Łagiewnicki Woods.

Its idea comes back to the memory of the dialogue taking place in Łódź for many successive years, the dialogue of four cultures that created Łódź: Polish, German, Jewish and Russian.

The beach is on the market of the culture-entertainment-trade Centre - Manufaktura.

Łódź is home to one-of-a-kind Central Museum of Textiles seated in the Ludwig Geyer classicistic factory dating back to 1835-1837.

The Museum of Art - one of the oldest in Europe - boasts the grandest collection of modern art.

Old postindustrial buildings, now culture-entertainment-trade center of Lodz.

The Łódź Film School

For those who enjoy the cinema all over the world the name ‘Filmówka’ or Łódź Film School evokes a smile and words of respect. Among the hundreds of graduates of this school, world-famous directors, cameramen and actors there are Academy Award Laureates and winners of prestigious prizes in Cannes: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roman Polański, Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi. The Karol Wilhelm Scheibler palace contains the only Museum of Cinematography in Poland. It has a collection of exhibits relating to the history of film technology and production. Łódź is host to the most important festival of camera work in the world - Camerimage, where the most outstanding cameramen are awarded prizes. Other creators in cinema also have their festivals in Łódź Mediaschool - The International Festival of Film and Television Schools, Reanimacja - The Festival of Animation, The Festival of Nature films and the Forum of European Cinema. Cinema can also be found in the city landscape along the Alley of the Stars (Aleja Gwiazd) - the pavements of Piotrkowska Street - with plaques with the names of stars of Polish cinema inscribed on them.

Factory of trade and entertainment

The modern center of art, trade and entertainment, Manufaktura, has been created inside the former ‘factory empire’, built from characteristic red brick, once belonging to one of the most prominent owners of many industrial buildings, Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznañski. There are also plans to open a four-star hotel belonging to the Andels chain, in the five storey cotton factory (170 meters in length). The form and the quality of the adaptation of the building, the functionality program and the interior aesthetics are highly regarded and have been nominated for the international MIPIM award in the category of trade centers. Manufaktura contains an IMAX cinema, restaurants, bowling alleys, a climbing wall, a museum and a number of boutiques and shops of reputed brands. Just round the corner in Ogrodowa Street in the Pałacu Poznańskich (the Poznański family Palace), the biggest industrial residence in Europe, is the Museum of the History of the City of Łódź (Muzeum Historii Miasta Łodzi). Walking through the museum halls we can learn a great deal about the history of the city, the interiors of mansions arranged according to the tastes of those rich industrialist, and the history of outstanding citizens of Łódź. One of the ‘symbols’ of the city is the avantgarde artistic group, Łódź Kaliska, renowned for their sophisticated happenings and exploits rebelling against the artificiality of ‘elitist art’ and mass culture.

City street salon

Piotrkowska Street is the cultural center of Łódź, the axis of the development of the 19th century city and a contemporary representative salon. Among the street’s interesting points is Liberty Square (Plac Wolności), which is in the shape of a regular octagon. The Town Hall – one of the oldest historical buildings of industrial Lodz, stands on one side of the square, and next to it, on the opposite side of Piotrkowska Street, is the Catholic Church of the Holy Ghost, together with the Archeological and Ethnographical Museum. In the centre of the square stands the characteristic monument of Tadeusz Kościuszko, visible almost from any point on the 4 km long Piotrkowska Street. On both of its sides there are numerous restaurants, artistic basements and clubs and an endless gallery of shops and boutiques with clothes produced by well known Polish and European companies. Piotrkowska Street never falls asleep. When there’s no trade there’s entertainment, when there’s no singing there’s dancing. Many concerts, happenings, sports competitions and Fairs take place along this street - the cultural salon of the city. Piotrkowska Street is also a unique and rich gallery of urban architecture. The outstanding monuments are Hermana Konstadta’s palace (no. 53) with the characteristic atlases, the banking house of Maksymilian Goldfeder (no. 77), the tenement house of Jan Peterslige (stonemason) with the statue of Jan Guttenberg on its facade (no. 86), Juliusza Kindermanna’s house with the Venetian mosaic (no. 137) and the headquarters of the Krusche Ender company (no. 143), delightful for its floral decoration. The side wall of the tenement house at no. 152 is decorated with the biggest wall graffiti in Poland presenting Łódź city landscapes. At Piotrkowska (no. 265) stands the tallest church in the city, the St. Stanislaw Kostka’s Metropolitan Cathedral. Its towers exceed 100 m in height. Over the last few years Piotrkowska Street has started to play the role of a sculpture gallery with figural monuments incorporated into it and devoted to the people, events, and the monuments of three manufacturers; the statues of the writer Reymont’s strongbox, Jaracz’s Fotel, (distinguished director and actor), Rubinstein’s piano and the characteristic Tuwim bench. A special homage to the citizens of Łódź is the Monument of the People constructed at the turn of the millennia made from thirteen thousand bricks with the names of the donors cut into them.