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Read more to learn where to stay, eat, drink coffee (or other beverages); where to buy souvenirs, what to see, and how to move around, during the CEEGS 2025 Conference in Wrocław!

Venue

Institute of English Philology, Kuźnicza 22, Wrocław

Conference opening will take place in Oratorium Marianum, a room in the main building of the University on Plac Uniwersytecki 1

Hotels (walking distance from the venue)

Eating

  • Vega (vegan milky bar on the ground floor, vegan restaurant above)
  • Cudo — vegan sushi (for all sushi and fusion lovers, not just vegans)
  • Iggy Pizza — Neapolitan pizza place famous for having their art taken away (the piece was a collage of Virgin Mary from Guadalupe and a Modigliani nude by Barrakuz; the police has arrived to take it away. You can still see tape on the wall)
  • VaffaNapoli — another Neapolitan pizza spot
  • Młoda Polska bistro & pianino — a restaurant by one of the Polish Masterchef winners. You might need to make a reservation call. Polish cuisine/fusion; options for vegetarians available.
  • AtoRamen — the best ramen in town. Vegetarian options available. Prepare for a standing in a queue (a true Polish experience, you are doing it right)
  • Chleboteka — for breakfasts and lunches
  • Giselle — for coffee and lunch
  • Woosabi — Asian/fusion
  • Hala Świebodzki — a foodcourt located in an old railway station in walking distance to the venue. Multiple food and drink options (alcohol included; recommendations — vegetarian Falla, asian Chingu). They have a small space designated for children.
  • Miś milky bar — true milky bar experience. If you don’t speak Polish, it makes sense to go with a Polish translator. It’s cheap, but the best food (best pierogi ruskie!) is gone before noon, so brace yourself, stand in a queue and don’t be afraid to sit with people you don’t know.
  • Lodziarnia Roma — one of the oldest (and best) ice-cream parlors in town (since 1946). Many flavors are their own inventions. If you order strawberry or lemon ice-cream you get the double portion for free.
  • Polish Lody — another famous ice-cream spot, a newer one; when it opened, a facebook site called „beka z kolejki do Polish lody” (LOL at the queue at Polish lody) was started as well. The name is a wordplay; ”Polish” in Polish sounds like ”poliż” (lick), and ”lody” is ”ice cream”… …the place is called ”Lick the ice-cream”.

Coffee/Tea

  • Enklawa (both spots, but the one in Hala Targowa has the vibe)
  • Rube’s Coffee (good Raf coffee)
  • Rozrusznik („pacemaker”)
  • El Gato
  • Vinyl Cafe
  • FC CAFFE (very close to the venue)
  • Gorąco Polecam (good sandwiches and sweets as well)
  • Etno (the nearest is here, but all the spots are the same)
  • Nero (the nearest, but likewise)
  • Herbaciarnia K2 — a pleasant and private spot for tea
  • Herbaciarnia Czajownia — a great tea and shisha place. Floor sitting, carpets, yard, life is good in general and maybe you can experience a little enlightenment as well? You might need to call for a reservation, though.
  • Still want your Starbucks? It’s okay

Beer/drinks

Souvenirs

You can find typical souvenir shops all over the city center, on the market square and in the surrounding districts.

If you would like to buy art, ceramics or other locally crafted objects, Nadodrze district is worth visiting (multiple shops on Łokietka street, Pomorska, Strzelecki, Jagiellończyka, MGart ceramics, NADO ceramics).
A shop with traditional Polish ceramics from Bolesławiec is here.

There is also a few of art shops on Jatki (old butcher’s street). Worth visiting even if you aren’t looking for souvenirs. Please don’t sit on animals from the monument of slaughter animals!

Sightseeing

  • The market square with the City Hall — a walk from out venue (don’t forget to visit Plac Solny nearby, a place famous for florists selling flowers in the middle of the night, also in the dead of winter, mostly to people leaving clubs)
  • Jaś and Małgosia — Polish for Hansel and Gretel — two tenement buildings at the corner of the market square. Actually, they weren’t tenement — in the 15th century, they belonged to altarists taking care of the altar in the church of St Elisabeth (behind the buildings). The yard between the buildings used to be a cemetery; the legend says it was for crooked fabric merchants.
  • Panorama Racławicka — an exposition with one painting only, but what painting that is! Read here
  • Neon gallery. Walk by when it’s dark. Don’t be tired, go see neons.
  • St Maria Magdalena — a church with a characteristic bridge between the towers called Mostek Pokutnic (the bringe of (female) penitents). You can go up for a small fee. Don’t recommend if you’re afraid of heights, though.
  • Ostrów Tumski — a cathedral island. When you are near the cathedral, look for a head of a screaming person between the bricks! It’s behind the right tower. Don’t give up.
  • Brama Kluskowa — there are multiple legends about this gate with a fossilized “dumpling” on it… …it does, however, kind of look like an artichoke.
  • Wrocław is famous for early 20th-century concrete structures — a spectacular Hala Stulecia designed by Max Berg (featuring a museum dedicated to its construction and history) and more modest Hala Targowa (worth stepping into, though, as it is very close to our venue and there is a traditional fruit, veg and flower market inside. You can also have a meal and coffee during the day in there and beer in the cellars by night)
  • Wrocławskie Zoo — especially worth visiting with children
  • University’s Botanical Garden
  • Sky Tower Viewpoint. Buy tickets here
  • Przejście (”The Passage”)— a replica of a famous street sculpture from 1977 by Jerzy Kalina, linked to Polish communist times. You can see the original sculpture in Pawilon Czterech Kopuł
  • Dwarfs! In multiple spots in Wrocław, you can find dwarf sculptures.
    They are a moderately new addition to the space. The first one on Świdnicka Street was made in connection to the Orange Alternative; the others followed. Read more here. You can find a map here. Taking photos of gnomes is a touristy thing to do. Seriously, be cool.
  • National Museum (traditional art)
  • Pawilon Czterech Kopuł (modern Polish art)
  • Hydropolis museum (paid excursion planned)
  • Museum of Games and Computers of the Past Era (free excursion planned)

Transportation

Wrocław has a pretty decent public transportation.

  • You can find routes of trams and buses here; the site is in Polish, but it is easy to navigate.
  • You can buy tickets inside trams and buses (with card or phone only, no cash payment available). You won’t get a paper ticket, just a notification on the screen saying that you have bought one; in case of ticket inspection, the inspector will ask for your card/phone.
  • A single-use ticket costs PLN 4,60; PLN 2,30 if you are a student (international and PhD students included; you’ll need a student ID to prove your status).
  • Uber and Bolt work; you can also order a taxi, e.g. Ryba taxi (713 067 067).

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