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Łódź’s Ruin and Rise: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

By VoiceMap Audio Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is $8 per adult
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Overview

Poland’s most dramatic story of urban transformation unfolds on Łódź’s streets. On this walking tour, you’ll get to know the city that exploded from a rural backwater to an industrial powerhouse in less than a century.

You’ll see everything from the restored grandeur of a textile magnate’s palace to the tragic site of Europe’s second-largest Jewish ghetto, and get a sense of how Łódź became a “bubbling cauldron” of ambition, suffering, and relentless reinvention.

You’ll find out how visionary entrepreneurs like Israel Poznański built empires that made Łódź wealthier than entire regions, only to see it all collapse and rise again. Along the way, you’ll hear stories of the Lost Quarter’s bustling markets which vanished during the Holocaust.

On this tour, you’ll meet a city where explosive growth, devastating tragedy, and remarkable resilience created Poland’s most unique urban story – and a place still ”impatient for the world to notice.”

Activity location

  • PURO Hotel Łódź Centrum
    • 16 Ogrodowa
    • 91-065, Łódź, Województwo łódzkie, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PURO Hotel Łódź Centrum
    • 16 Ogrodowa
    • 91-065, Łódź, Województwo łódzkie, Poland

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Łódź’s Ruin and Rise: A Self-Guided Audio Tour in English
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • Opening hours: Thu 12:00am-11:59pm
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
$7.99 x 1 Adult$7.99

Total
Price is $7.99

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Lifetime access to this tour in English
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Smartphone and headphones
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Transportation
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food and drink

Know before you book

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

PURO Hotel Łódź Centrum (Pass by)
This self-guided audio tour starts at the PURO Hotel Łódź Centrum.
Manufaktura (Pass by)
On this self-guided audio tour, you'll have a chance to enter the gates of Poznański’s textile empire, where 4,000 workers once labored 15-hour days, now transformed into Manufaktura, Poland’s largest regeneration project since Warsaw’s reconstruction.
Karol Poznanski Palace (Pass by)
On this self-guided audio tour, you'll have a chance to stand in Israel Poznański’s palace garden, called the “Louvre of Łódź,” and learn how a Jewish entrepreneur became one of Poland’s wealthiest men.
Park Staromiejski (Pass by)
On this self-guided audio tour, you'll have a chance to walk through Park Staromiejski, built over the former Łódź Ghetto’s no-man’s land.
Stary Rynek (Pass by)
On this self-guided audio tour, you'll discover the site of the medieval Old Town Market Square, where 200,000 Jews faced a horrific fate in World War II.
Łódka (Pass by)
On this self-guided audio tour, you'll have a chance to follow part of the hidden Łódka River, one of 18 rivers that powered the textile mills which transformed Poland’s industrial landscape.
Freedom Square (Plac Wolnosci) (Pass by)
The tour ends at Plac Wolności (Liberty Square), recently resurrected as the city’s beating heart.

Location

Activity location

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    PURO Hotel Łódź Centrum
    • 16 Ogrodowa
    • 91-065, Łódź, Województwo łódzkie, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    PURO Hotel Łódź Centrum
    • 16 Ogrodowa
    • 91-065, Łódź, Województwo łódzkie, Poland

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