Wroclaw is one of the oldest cities in Poland with a long and turbulent history that is manifest on every corner. Throughout the ages, the city has been passed from hand to hand in many different circumstances. The city has belonged to thePoles, the Czechs, the Hungarians and the Germans. Althoughalmost seventy percent of its urban fabric was destroyed inthe Second World War, Wroclaw managed to rise from the ruins and now boasts many an architectural monument. The city currently features nearly eight thousand tenements - one of the largest complexes of this type found in Poland and, furthermore, in Europe. The oldest tenements originated in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and are surrounded by Baroque,Classicist, Art Nouveau and modernis- architecture.
Thispublication comprises a compelling selection of more than 150 buildings - from avantgarde residential blocks dating from the sixties and seventies via the Centennial Hall - recognised by the American Getty Foundation as one of the ten mostimportant examples of twentieth century modernism - to modern buildings and the Ozeaneum in the Zoo.
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