BLOWN Away By Wroclaw! (Polands Best City?) 🇵🇱
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- Wroclaw is one of the lower key cities in Poland but in my opinion it is the most beautiful! Join me as I show you everything that Wroclaw Poland has to offer.
I visited the most beautiful city in Poland.
24 Hours In The Most BEAUTIFUL City In Poland 🇵🇱
Is This The Most BEAUTIFUL City In Poland? 🇵🇱
BLOWN Away By Wroclaw! (Polands Best City?) 🇵🇱
WOW, Why Didn't I Come To WROCLAW Sooner? 🇵🇱
ASIAN's FIRST TIME in Wroclaw!! 🇵🇱
ASIAN Visits Wroclaw For First Time!
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Wrocław is a weird place in terms of influences. It was originally a Polish city in the middle ages. Then it got robbed and burned during the Tatar invasion. Then the Polish king started inviting the German settlers here to repopulate the city. They basically built a new city, on the ruins of the old one. Then the area with Wrocław was sold to Chechia and later became part of Prussia (~Germany).
So since the middle ages up until WWII Wrocław was basically a German city with Polish history. But after WWII the borders changed again and this area became part of Poland again.
At that time 60% of Wrocław was in ruins so the Poles had to rebuild it, but they were purposefully trying to base the new architecture on the old Polish style, to make it feel less German. Plenty of people who came to inhabit Wrocław have been relocated from the Lwów area (then Poland, now Ukraine). So they also brought some influences from that region. And the rebuilts were happening under the Soviet rule so of course there's also a lot of the typical Soviet architecture.
It's like the history of the city has come full circle.
point was not "invitation" but fact that Łokietek did not manage to get Silesia back after fragmentation of the Realm even if Silesian dukes were from Piast dynasty.
Poles purposefully have rebuilt the market square in German style so I have no idea what are you talking about (check architecture in Lublin, Kazimierz Dolny or Kraków for example, totally different). Another buildings were rebuilt differently not because we wanted to make the feeling less German but because our country was totally devastated and we had to live somewhere so cheap block of flats has been established everywhere else. We didn't want them, we had to build them. Rebuilding the city centre in German style was a totally dumb idea as now a lot of Germans scream in social media about giving back their land and their nazi attitude is supported by some members of AfD
yeah, that is why Market is an exact copy of Market it was before siege of Breslau.
@@tomaszk9210 I live in Kraków, I know the difference.
The thing is that outside the market square or Ostrów Tumski etc. most of "German" Wrocław was hardly rebuilt at all. One reason is that Soviet-style blocks were cheaper, but when deciding which buildings to renovate, which to preserve, and which to demolish and replace with new ones, there was a lot of ideological thinking involved. For example, Baroque tenements were deliberately left unattended, to fall apart, because the Baroque period was already associated with German rule. In contrast, medieval Gothic buildings were being taken care of because they represented the times of the Piasts.
Yeah, I'm aware of some German nationalists who preach redrawing the borders. We also have them- they want to get Lwów back. They're all equally stupid and unimportant outside of their internet campaigns.
@@tomaszk9210 "the german style" is the only thing which make this city pretty. And as the "germans screem" about giving back the Wroclaw, we are screaming about getting back Lviv.
big Korean population is there due to all the Korean business facilities located in the area, there is a Korean business hub around Wroclaw, you can fly directly to Seul from Wroclaw
Exactly, the biggest one being LG Energy Solution - the biggest in Europe manufacturer of batteries to electric cars
I’m moving to Poland next weekend!
Are you coming from a non-EU country? How hard was the process of being able to move there? Also how do you like it there??
@@thadashley2911 it’s a long process. But the country is perfect! Everything is nice and respectful and the country is clean and very safe! Food is crazy good so many varieties. I think the bigger cities are where everyone is going. I’m not there but will visit soon.
@@curtishawkins717 That's great to hear! I want to move and get out of the US so badly. Glad to see the country lived up to its reputation for you.
@@thadashley2911 for sure man keep at it! Took me 10 years I never gave up!
Lviv is similar because it was polish city since 1387 to 1772, later on again polish since 1918 . So you can find similarities everywhere in poland because , poland is and was on the crossroads of cultures from west and east. Additional thing, Poland was huge country reaching smolensk, tallinn, kiev and many other places, so there was strong polish influence in this region as well.
So many cultures here was exchanging styles of architecture among themselves, that's why every polish city and other countries in central europe looks familiar somehow but in the same time so different.
So don't be surprise by Gdansk or Poznan or even Lublin if you will find something familiar again :)
Since 1945*
Gdansk is definately worth visiting. It's my favourite city in Poland
Will be going there too
@@WheresWes Try to visit Hel peninsula very close Gdansk, places like Jurata. Best natural sandy beaches in Poland, no hotels on beach, just forest, nature and fresh breeze from Baltic Sea. You can catch a train from Gdynia, sister city to Gdańsk.
03:50 - this type of building is called "Kamienica" in polish. Wrocław spent centuries under polish, czech, austrian and german rule respectively, and it certainly shows in it's architecture.
its so weird to see another persons perspective on a city you live in !! very good video❤
"feel like a Germany and Lviv had a baby" 🤣👏🤣🤣🤣 omg more true that you could imagine.
You should definitely visit the Tricity "Trójmiasto" during the summer.
I am glad you enjoyed my city!❤
Some similarities between Wroclaw and Lwów can be derived from the common history of these cities. After WW2 when Poland lost Lwów, yet gained Wroclaw, the elites from Lwów University were moved to Wroclaw to set university here. Wroclaw (or back then actually Breslau as that’s how Germans called it) was fortified during WW2 and hence mostly destroyed. Therefore, I believe, the influence of Germans (not everything was destroyed) and eastern Poland (Lwów etc) can be found (since the elites that were moved probably influenced greatly the style of Wroclaw while it was being rebuilt.
The reason Wroclaw feels like a combo of Lviv and Germany is because Wroclaw used to be German and Lviv used to be Polish.
Most of the Polish population of Lviv and institutions (Ossolineum library and printing house, University & Polytechnic staff etc.) moved to Wrocław after WWII, so culturally Wroclaw is a continuation of prewar Lwów. I'm a citizen I'm aware of that but hearing that from a visiting foreigner without that background knowledge is amazing.
Really great vlog Wes! I did also pronounce Wro Claw in the English way too! My Gf and I also like Wroclaw more and the small sushi shop before the river bridge is really good! - Somehow Califonia rolls in Poland are really good standard! I heard the Korean population our age do IT here - as I have been mistaken it! I also seen a Japanese garden in Gdansk, Oliwski Park- Very clean- defo worth a visit! Look forward watching your next video!
Thanks for the video! Wroclaw has quite lots of Korean companies such as LG and LG's partner companies. That's why there are many Korean people. That city has Korean school as well for those Korean people's chlidren.
Excellent video, great content. Very interesting, hola from Madrid
Saludos parcero
I've been living in Wrocław since 2017 and there's still something to do and explore here. Aside from Park Szczytnicki there are more beautiful parks such as Park Grabiszyński or Park Wschodni. I can show you around if you ever come back haha
Great video 🎉 subscribed and going to watch all of them
I'm a Warsawer but paid many visits to Wrocław, and perceive it as one of the most attractive Polish cities. The city is as diverse and widespread as I really needed many visits to see the most of its attractions. A good guide is recommended there! Wrocław is an academic city with several Universities, making the city full of young people. There was a huge Greek immigration to Wrocław in 1970s, and it still shows even nowadays (the abundance of Greek restaurants!)
Next to the Wrocław you have very large battery production plant LG Chem so a lot of Koreans live here. So many that Wrocław has direct flights to Seoul and you have "Korean" town with Korean restaurants, shops, etc. near Wrocław.
Hurry up with visiting Gdansk. July is a peak season - try to visit in July in the weekend - it should be fun then! Gdansk is connected with 2 other great spots: Sopot and Gdynia. We call it tri - city (these 3 cities connected with each others). Sopot is a must visit!! Main Street in Sopot „Monte Cassino street” full of restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs. Down the street there is a cool beach and pier. Saturday during the summertime is the best day to spend in Sopot - many locals and tourists hit on Sopot that time and it’s intensive, full of life, fun! I live in Gdansk so I know what I’m saying. Enjoy.
Wow, and your apartment was in my neighborhood where i grew up and lived for most of my life :D Great video, take care !
As born & bread Wroclaw-ian, I must agree with all. Thank you for kind words and you’re always more than welcome to pop back in :)
it's not often that I can see my company office building on yt video but here it is
Hey I would highly recommend you Split, Croatia for summer vacation. One of the most beautiful cities in Europe
3:58 not suprising that in very popular city in this part of Europe there are a lot of tourists from nearby countries..
Wrocław the longest belonged to Poland and Czech Republic, then Austria, Prussen and Germany
After WW2 most of the Lwów's polish population was deported to the Wrocław. That's why it may be influenced by that. Also Germans were deported from Wrocław in that time.
Oh, that's a good point! It's like Lwów has the remanants of Poland in it while Wrocław has the vibe that Lwowians (no idea how they should be called) brought. I also thought that it might be because most of Wrocław was destroyed so it had to be rebuilt under the Soviet rule and obviously with some Soviet influences- that are very tangible in Lwów as well.
@@leno_o17Lwowiacy or more formal Lwowianie
@@bogna8877 thank you!
And yeahh they put colorful lights in night in fountains near hala stulecia!! It’s so beautiful and I recommend to see it!
0:30 my grandma lives behind that big skyskraper thing i name it "klocek"
I came to visit my family that lived in Wrocław and stayed for good - for me it is the best city to live in Poland :) Plus you stayed in an apartment so close to me, I was shocked ;)
Hah probably my kieds were playing near this fountain when you have recorded it :D
The reason Wroclaw looks like Lviv (Lwow jn Polish) is because many of the Polish people and most of the Polish intellectuals who were thrown out of Lviv ( which before 1939 was part of Poland) by the Soviets moved to Wroclaw after WWII.
I know I'm late, but if you'll ever come across Wro again hit me up. I'll show you more of the gems then standard tourist places.
I like Wrocław, I feel more relaxed than in Kraków. Wrocław is an academic city, there are many students and when the academic year begins, Wrocław grows significantly in population. And it is not as crowded as in Kraków, which is besieged by tourists.😄
I would love to see you visit my hometown in poland, Bydgoszcz :) it has become quite a meme, but I think it has some beautiful places to visit
Silesia was mixing pot of Polish, Czech, Jewish and German influence. Modern Wrocław population stands from students from around the Poland (and World). The local population is mostly from people forcefully moved by Soviets from Lviv when it was Polish Lwów. So all of your comments are on point. If anyone watching want to visit one Town in Poland I highly recommend Wrocław.
Blown away by Wrocław? Quite rightly so, it's beautiful. But wait till you see Gdańsk and Sopot :-)
You should definitely visit Poznań or Gdańsk!! Very beautiful cities :3
It might be similar to Lviv because many people were forced to move here from there and as Wrocław was rebuilt they probably based it on what they knew.
If we are not talking about architecture, then it is not a German influence, there are many Ukrainian entrepreneurs who made the city more comfortable in many aspects, compared to other cities in Poland, where the percentage of Ukrainians is smaller.
its funny becouse you live next to me XDD
You said Wrocław was a German city. Ok, it was, but have you ever seen Wrocław just right after the WWII? Who rebuilt the city? Germans? No? :|
Sorry for my ignorance, but I didn't see your vids about Lviv/Ukraine (tried to find it, but cos lack of time I haven't). Did you mentioned there that was a Polish city?
take it easy dude, German past of Wrocław is part of the Wrocław's definition. In terms of XIX century architecture Wrocław looks like Berlin. Actually Wrocław played at least once Berlin in a movie.
1. All cities in central-east Europe: Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Transylvania , Baltics in middle ages untill middle 1800's were mostly German.
2. Wroclaw was establish by Czech king Vratislaw ( Wroclaw get name after him ) , in 990 became part of Poland , in 1340 became part of Czech again. Then Czechia and Wroclaw became part of Habsburg Austria. In 1744 Prussia grabbed Wroclaw from Austria and in1871 Wroclaw became a part of German Empire untill 1945.
Bullshit. you cannot say "all cities in central-east europe were mostly german", thats the biggest lie ive ever heard
❤moje miasto Wrocław 🇵🇱
great vlog
0:00 it is not bus station, but train station
Lviv was a native Polish city until after the WW2 when Stalin decided otherwise. This may be why you see the resemblance.
Lviv was built by Poles, it was a Polish city and part of Poland.
You should visit toruń
Korean population is because of large Korean invesment near Wroclaw. You can event fly to Seoul from Wroclaw.
Every Major Polish city have a different vibe. Gdansk for example will feel more Dutch/Northern German. Warsaw will feel more like a mix between Poland and America. Lublin will have an Eastern Feel to it, Poznan is a mix of Polish and German.
Polish cities like Wroclaw, Krakow and Poznan were granted "Magdeburg rights" in 13th century, it was a set of urban planning like square market and city privileges in Europe (economical and custom reliefs). I think the most similar looking city to Wroclaw is Leipzig in east germany. Also similar laws were granted to Lviv and Kyiew, Minsk, Vilnus, Praga etc. Apart from german ancestors and being part of Bohemian Crown we also have an impact of jewish architects, around 1850 jews were 7-8% of city population.
Are you planning on going to Warsaw at some point in the future?
End of the month!
@@WheresWesI found the food scene in Wroclaw is better than Warsaw-at least for the Asian food!
"big spire that looks like a wafer cookie" - that's it. From this point forward I am calling all industrial chimneys "wafer spires".
Some time ago Wroclaw was the most dangerous cities in PL. As You mentioned, some time ago it was in hands of Germans, that's why it's so well build. If it would be Polish... well... probably it would look like more like Siedlce or other Polands eastern cities. And as it ususally is in PL cities, one step outside downtown and it's a completley different world, more Polish i would say - ugliness, poverty, grime.
Oh, and another fund fact. There is no "central europe". Europe was divided to two blocks (western and eastern) by Berlin Wall. Everything east of the wall is considered as eastern europe, everything else, western. "Central europe" is an "invention" of Poles and other ex soviet union countries in order to not be identified with Russia in any matter.
AndrwTravel podróżnik lepszy
They are not gnomes, but dwarves ;)
Hey buddy! How did you manage to stay longer than 90 days?
YOU WERE SO CLOSE TO MY SCHOOL OMG
Did you feel like in Ukraine? It is estimated that over 80,000 Ukrainians live in Wroclaw due to the war. It is also the city with the largest number of Koreans in Poland. Interesting mix. 😎 Great trip!
The city isn't dirty and has a genuinely amazing atmosphere..why would he ever feel like in Ukraine?? Lmao
@@ronin36963 you can't hear rockets flying over your head, either. Definitely not like Ukraine
@@leno_o17 even before the war, without rockets flying over your head.
Ukraine is also very clean and safe, separate from the war of course @@ronin36963
@@WheresWes lol, not where I've been. Garbage everywhere, crazy amounts of stray dogs, and food was poor yet expensive.
yep, Wroclaw is nicer than Krakow, hands down.
This city is named not "Wrocław" but Breslau!
3:50 - You said you feel like you're closer to Western Europe than to Easter Europe that's because it's a German city, not polish.
Breslau at this moment is under polish occupation, but one day Germans will get it back.
To make things funnier, Japan was the only country against which Poland declared war in the 20th century - on December 11, 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Great Britain's declaration of support for the USA. However, Japan did not accept the war declaration (before World War II, both countries were friends as anti-Russian), formally the "war" lasted until 1957, when peace was signed and diplomatic relations were re-established. During this "war" there were no direct clashes between Polish and Japanese military formations, individual Polish soldiers, such as pilot Witold Urbanowicz, hero of the Battle of Britain, took part in the fighting, but as part of American or British units.
Nothing to be proud of British battle, poles were cheap shield meat like always nation of losers 😂
It's interesting that you mention Lviv. Lviv was actually Polish and build by the Poles hence the Polish looking architecture. Then the Soviets took it from Poland and moved all it's Polish citizens to... Yes, You guesed it: Wroclaw! (They took Wroclaw from the Germans and gave it to the Poles.) Many of the great grand parents of today 's Wroclawians were actually born in Lviv.
great u visited our city but i lived in Kraków and Wrocław is much better:) ps. and yes here live many Koreans becouse we have many Koreans Factories and my niece got married by Korean guy:)
Lwów na zawsze Polski! A Wrocław tak samo z resztą jak Berlin założyli Słowianie 😊
czyli chcesz aby Berlin sobie wzięli Łużyczanie?
Wroclaw na zawsze niemiecki! Ukraincy to tez slowianie. Pozdrawiam cieplutko😊
@@antoni-ic7td Wrocław nie może być na zawsze niemiecki bo jest przecież teraz polski.
@@michastepien8326 lwow nie moze byc na zawsze polski bo jest przeciez teraz ukrainski
@@antoni-ic7td tak to właśnie działa
At Fukudenkai, Japan rescued 760 Polish orphans during 1920-21 Soviet-Polish war. Japan is awesome
That's interesting that you'd call the outskirts of Wrocław "less developed". Like, how would you define development, then? There are some older buildings, some post-industrial stuff, the buildings may be a bit run down if they are empty for one reason or another, so I get that they may not be the most attractive (just like the outskirts of literally any other big city), but "less developed? Weird. There are roads, water, electricity, internet connection, gps signal and roadsigns and all the good stuff that the developed world is known for. So would you care to explain what you meant, exactly?
Oh, and the buildings you didn't know the proper name of are just townhouses.
moze chodziło po prostu o mniejszą ilość budynków?
Hala Stulecia is a UNESCO world.heritage site. One of 14 in Poland
And there is a possibility to visit it. Moreover, it was one of locations of the latest "The Hunger Games"
It is a baby of German and Lviv :)
I don't know how in Poland, but here in Czechia, most of "chinese" and "korean" restaurants are run by Vietnamese people, but maybe they have real Koreans in Poland, I don't know. 😀
I visited many places in Poland, but Wroclaw feels the most as home for me as Czech, you can see all those influences, it was ours before 1742 and Czech lion is still even in city coat of arms.
Poles are really good in combining old and modern architecture, we can't do that here properly and it mostly ends terribly. But after I visited Vienna, I realized that it's still pretty good here in Czechia in this case, in Vienna, they just do random stuff like building completely different building next to gothic church and stuff like that, everything totally random, no care about history. Our post communist countries are for some reason better in this.
We have a lot of Vietnamese people in Warsaw.
Warsaw next?
Yup coming next week
@@WheresWes Visit towarowa 22 in Warsaw...........
After II world war, Wrocław (Breslau) was left by Germans i populated by Poles, deported form east part of Polend incorporated to Soviet Union, a lot of them was form polish before war Lwów :). So todays Wrocław is real child of german Breslau and polish Lwów. But at first is old Silesian city with rich an multicultural history.
Hate Airbnb, with a passion. Taking away nice apartments and bringing up prices for buying property 🤬 Wrocław is beautiful city though, let's hope they follow Barcelona and get rid of them.
Polish airbnb prices are absurd 😂 cost like New York lmao freaking expensive for some communism standard
@@kurrwa dude, have you ever been in New York 😂. It's not even close
I felt like they were improving some areas of Wroclaw but others no so nice. Putting money into every town
"back in Ukraine? " Wroclaw really looks like that? Omg 😢
there is the diffrence beetwen eastern and western poland. Eastern one looks more like ukraine in case of architecture (and sometimes pepole). And the western one more like wetern europe. Pepole also say that the western part is way more richer and developed, but im not sure if thats true. I personnally like western part more beacose i grew up in it and i like the western architecture more.
You can’t get anything good and value for free
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO KRAKÓW IS SUPERIOR !!!!
Kraków is shit cuz theres nothing except churches
@@pioter33 Some Churches are still very beautiful lol
whos the girl, we want to see!
she doesn't want to be on camera.
I HATE Wrocław. One big god damn traffic jam all the time
Wrocław is a city of secrets, hidden gardens and parks, and the mixed history of different nations. Wrocław is also famous for its number of bridges - it has the largest number of bridges in Poland and the surrounding area - only Venice has a comparable number of bridges. You should visit Wrocław again with a good guide. Regards! :)
yea wroclaw is 1000% best polish city
"polish"
tak wszystko porównujesz do Niewmiec i tak sie nimi zachwycasz wiec mysle ze chyba pomyliłes kierunki, jedz do Niemiec prosta sprawa! nie obraz sie ale to dla ciebie nie to miejsce gdzie powinienes sie znalezc! pozdrawiam