Loads of churches in the old town. I visited several of them, but the most beautiful inside was The Jesuit Church of the Holy Name of Jesus. Apparently Baroque in style, complete with frescos on the ceiling.

Wroclaw has heaps of brass gnomes all around the old city. We have spotted lots of them and I snapped a few. Pick the ones that aren’t gnomes (not including Michael).

Actually the last photo was taken in the ‘shambles’ – where the old butcher shops were situated and these bronze statues represent the animals killed by the butchers.

PIWNICA SWIDNICKA

This is the oldest inn in Europe (operating since 1275). It comprises nine different underground rooms and depending on what your social cast was, you could enter one or more of them. Chopin himself played here, and tonight we are off to a Chopin concert followed by a dinner – like we did in Wroclaw for about $40AU each. We are really looking forward to it.

The Raclawice Panorama

This is the most important attraction in Wroclaw. We tried to get in on Saturday and the line up was too big, so we got up early on Sunday and walked back, to make it into the 9 am session. It was amazing. The first photo shows the building in which the 360degree panorama is displayed. I could give you the dimensions, but just trust me it is huge. It tells a story in 30 mins.(with visitors using headsets in their language) of how brave the Polish were on a particular day in the late 18thC (4/4/1794) when the peasants and soldiers, led by the country’s hero Koścuiszko, fought off the Russians. The story holds the same significance for the Polish as ANZAC Day does for Aussies and Kiwis. The foreground of the paintings is made up of real objects and it is very hard to tell where the display stops and the painting starts. This was painted in 9 months.

The price of our ticket also got us into the Wroclaw National Museum. But we were too early for that one. Note Michael on the seat on the right waiting patiently for 10am so he could go in.

Our earlier conclusions and observations of Polish museum and gallery staff still holds. They are definitely the least friendly. And, the contemporary art is drab, pessimistic and unsophisticated. The abstract art, to us, was woeful. We could not get out quickly enough.

This is a photo of me leaving the national museum. Note the door is closed. Unsure if they really wanted any visitors.

Finally, not a famous Wroclaw sight, but I did spot a pair of Aussies here too. We thought we would have been the only ones in our age groups in this city. But we were wrong. His Akubra and RM Williams’ boots were a dead giveaway before I heard his accent.