12 November 2008
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8 October 2008
£ód¼, Be³chatów, Kleszczów, Uniejów and Poddźbice are some of the cities in £ód¼ Region that are hoping to secure a slice of the Euro 2012 pie. This is after Poland's parliament last September passed a law to speed up the construction of stadiums, sports infrastructure and roads for the Euro 2012 European soccer championships to be hosted by Poland and Ukraine. |
8 October 2008
The so-called White Factory (Bia³a Fabryka) is the oldest part of a 19th-century cotton mill once owned by £ód¼ industrialist Ludwik Geyer. It is one of the most beautiful examples of industrial architecture in £ód¼. The White Factory, whose buildings enclose a quadrangle, makes for a stunning sight from both a landscaping and architectural point of view since it is sited by a lake on the edge of the W³adys³aw Reymont Park. |
25 June 2008
The £ód¼ Region, located in the very heart of Poland, is inhabited by 2,6 million people and occupies an area of 18.000 square km. City of £ód¼, the third biggest city in Poland, is capital of the region. Together with neighbouring cities, it creates an agglomeration with nearly one million inhabitants- a big economic, commercial, scientific, academic and cultural center. |
25 June 2008
£ód¼ is one of those irresistible places that will lure you back again and again. The city is packed with galleries and pubs tucked away in quaint little nooks and crannies and abounds in all sorts of festivals and cultural events. |
25 June 2008
W³odzimierz Fisiak, the chief executive of the £ód¼ provincial government assembly, talks to Maria Sondej. |
25 June 2008
The new Horse Riding Route being created in £ód¼ will take tourists from town to town and from one historic site to another. |
7 May 2008
Does £ód¼ stand a chance of being named by the EU as a European Capital of Culture of 2016? Danuta Gruszczyńska asked a number of prominent figures linked with the city. All said £ód¼ would gain measurable benefits if it gains such status, and argued the city's multicultural history makes it an ideal choice for a Capital of Culture. |
7 May 2008
The city of £ód¼ in the center of Poland has a short but fascinating history. Although the city's population today is mainly of Polish origin, in the past the £ód¼ region was influenced by four different cultures-Polish, Jewish, German and Russian. |
7 May 2008
Jerzy Kropiwnicki, mayor of £ód¼, speaks with Maria Sondej and Urszula Imienińska. |
7 May 2008
£ód¼, once a center of the textile industry, has now become a city of festivals, film and art. In 2016, it aspires to become European Culture Capital. The city stages over 60 festivals and attracts visitors all year round. |
7 May 2008
Poland's central city of £ód¼ won the Golden City Gate Award in this year's international competition for films about regions, cities and tourism during the ITB Berlin, the world's largest travel trade fair, held in Germany. The fair attracted participants from 180 countries and the film competition some 80 entrants. £ód¼ Mayor Jerzy Kropiwnicki said that he was happy "to have fairly and squarely beaten the other contestants" on March 7, with his city's film, entitled £ód¼, A City of Culture. |
7 May 2008
Andrzej Cie¶lik, director of the Fala Aqua Park in £ód¼, talks to Maria Sondej. |
7 May 2008
Frederic Faroche, vice-chairman of Dalkia £ód¼, talks to Agnieszka Ostapowicz. |
7 May 2008
The Beauty of Nudity exhibition at £ód¼'s City History Museum features some 140 pieces of work that the exhibition organizers borrowed from both other museums and private collections. The exhibition has work by 65 Polish artists, including W³adys³aw Podkowiński, Leon Wyczó³kowski, Józef Pankiewicz, Wojciech Weiss, Tymon Niesio³owski and Jerzy Nowosielski. |
28 November 2007
Księży Młyn (Priest's Mill) in Łódź is a factory, palace and residential complex developed by industrialist Karol Wilhelm Scheibler. The city's largest manufacturer moved to Łódź from western Rhineland in Germany in the mid-19th century to become one of those who built the industrial power of the city. |
28 November 2007
Krzysztof Krawczyk, 61, is one of the most popular Polish singers but also a controversial one. Some say he is the Polish Elvis Presley, a singer with a cult following. Others regard him as synonymous with kitsch. |
28 November 2007
In December, £ód¼'s cultural life will be dominated by visual art exhibitions. |
28 November 2007
The Marina Apartments development is located in north £ód¼ in the Soko³ówka river valley, opposite the Julianowski Park and near the Las £agiewnicki park area with bike routes, walking paths, ponds and tennis courts. At the same time, you will find city amenities nearby, including schools, nurseries, markets, shopping malls and sports centers such as Manufaktura or Nowa Gdynia. |
7 November 2007
November in £ód¼ is a month rich in cultural events large and small. Undoubtedly, the most important of them will be the Plus Camerimage. |
7 November 2007
Alongside large factory complexes, the city of £ód¼ is home to many lavish mansions and villas that were built by factory owners and other industrialists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The size and design of the buildings were aimed at displaying their owners' social status. Many of these luxury houses, especially those located outside the city center, had large yards around them. Around 50 such villas were built in £ód¼ at the turn of the 20th century. They did not form a residential quarter, though, but were usually located in the vicinity of factory buildings. |
7 November 2007
Prof. Jacek Moll has headed the pediatric cardiac surgery ward at the Polish Mothers' Memorial Hospital in £ód¼ since 1990. Moll, born in 1949, is the son of pioneering cardiac surgeon Jan Moll, and his son Maciej is also training to be a cardiac surgeon. "Medicine runs in the family. My wife is also a cardiologist and we work together," says Moll. |
26 September 2007
The £ód¼ Special Economic Zone, which has been running for 10 years, ranks among the most successful SEZs in Poland. In August it welcomed its 100th investor. By the end of the year, the number of permits issued to companies wanting to operate in the zone is expected to reach 115, with total investment amounting to 400 million euros. |
26 September 2007
A series of international cultural events is planned in £ód¼ this October |
26 September 2007
The new building of the Museum of Art in £ód¼ opens in just a year. For over 60 years this institution has been housed in the palace of the Poznańskis, one of the wealthiest £ód¼ industrialist families at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and has long suffered from a shortage of exhibition space. |
26 September 2007
Marcel Szytenchelm, actor, director and founder of the S³up Theater Studio, is also the founder and organizer of £ód¼'s popular Tuwim and Reymont Days festivals. £ód¼ takes pride in its association with renowned poet and native son Julian Tuwim, and Nobel Prize laureate W³adys³aw Reymont, whose novel Ziemia obiecana (Promised Land) was dedicated to the city. |
26 September 2007
The beautiful Art Nouveau Kindermann villa in £ód¼ is one of the most interesting historical buildings in the city and in Poland. The building has an irregular, asymmetrical structure. It was built in 1903 and designed a year earlier by Gustaw Landau-Gutenteger as a small, luxurious mock hunting lodge. |
30 May 2007
£ód¼, with 770,751 residents, has a total commercial space of 363,580 square meters. In May 2006, £ód¼ residents witnessed perhaps the most important event of the year on the Polish retail space market: the opening of the Manufaktura mall comprising a hypermarket, a shopping gallery and cinema, in the future to be complemented with a hotel, an art gallery and a museum. |
30 May 2007
Micha³ Sty¶, managing director of the Orange Property Group, talks with Beata Go³źbiewska. |
30 May 2007
Ryszard Marcinkowski, of Marcinkowski Szymański Markiewicz Trzeciak Law Chamber, talks with Beata Go³źbiewska. |
30 May 2007
One of Poland's most talented young violinists, Piotr Pławner was born in Łódź in 1974. His father is a violinist at the Wielki Theater in Łódź and his mother teaches the flute at a music school. |
30 May 2007
June kicks off in £ód¼ with the tenth Movie Score Festival, which this year is dedicated to the memory of Andrzej Kurylewicz, a jazz musician, pianist, trombonist, trumpeter and conductor who died in mid-April. Kurylewicz conducted the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Warsaw and, with wife Wanda Warska, hosted Warsaw's Piwnica Artystyczna (Art Basement) from 1967. |
30 May 2007
£ód¼ is a place of contrasts. It has wealth and businesses that are doing well, alongside those who are struggling and need help. Hence the importance of charity initiatives. This year, on international Children's Day, the Park Foundation and partners are organizing a Small Children-Big Issue charity event. £ód¼ Mayor Jerzy Kropiwnicki has assumed honorary patronage over the project. |
28 March 2007
W³odzimierz Tomaszewski, deputy mayor of £ód¼, talks to Konrad Bagiński |
28 March 2007
Today's £ód¼ is a city of adventure, a place where the past and the present intertwine and complement each other, where everything is changing for the better. |
28 March 2007
Dorota Brzezińska, Miros³aw Narolski and Adam Mariański, lawyers from the Brzezińska Narolski Mariański law firm, talk to Beata Go³źbiewska |
28 March 2007
£ód¼ is a magical city whose hidden beauty exudes the atmosphere of a cultural, religious and ethnic melting pot. Polish, German, Jewish and Russian people all left their distinct mark on £ód¼, contributing to its unique style. |
28 March 2007
The world knows Marek Edelman as the last commander of the 1943 Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw. During World War II, he was one of the organizers of the Jewish Fighting Organization and took command of the uprising when Mordechaj Anielewicz was killed. Edelman recounted the details of the uprising in the book The Ghetto Fights, published soon after the war, and years later in the book Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem (Be There Before God) by Hanna Krall. |
28 March 2007
The 7th Festival of Science, Technology and Art will take place in £ód¼ April 18-24. This year it will feature nearly 200 events, including presentations of scientific experiments that usually raise the greatest interest among visitors. For the first time, a Science Picnic will be organized. It will be held on the premises of the renovated headquarters of the £ód¼ Science Society, the festival's organizer. |
28 March 2007
£ód¼ is seeking the prestigious title of European Capital of Culture 2016. A website is already available to support the bid, at www.lodz2016.com. |
28 March 2007
£ód¼'s Scheibler Palace, which holds Poland's only Museum of Cinematography, sits on Zwyciźstwa Square, formerly known as Wodny Rynek (Water Market). |
7 February 2007
"£ód¼ as a City of Success: Investment, Development and the Job Market" was the title of a conference that took place in £ód¼ on Jan. 29. It was organized by The Warsaw Voice and the £ód¼ Destination Alliance, with Manufaktura and the British-Polish Chamber of Commerce as co-organizers. |
24 January 2007
Jerzy Kropiwnicki, mayor of £ód¼, talks to Maria Sondej |
24 January 2007
£ód¼, Poland's second largest city, is located in the central part of the country and is a regional capital. Back in 1945, when Warsaw had been left in rubble by World War II, £ód¼ hosted the Polish government headquarters for a time. |
24 January 2007
Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Marek Belka, Jarosław Bauc |
24 January 2007
Manufaktura and lofts are the two words that most often come to mind when talking about £ód¼ real estate. |
24 January 2007
Luxembourg architect Rob Krier is interested in redeveloping the neighborhood around the £ód¼ Fabryczna railway station, which has been designated a new city center. |
24 January 2007
In the coming weeks, the cultural highlights of £ód¼ will be in the theater. The Jaracza Theater is getting ready to perform the world premiere of Vladimir Zuyev's contemporary play Osaczeni (Trapped). The performance takes up the topical subject of the war in Chechnya. |
24 January 2007
The building that houses £ód¼'s most famous hotel, the Grand, once belonged to manufacturer Edward Haentschel. Ludwik Meyer, who worked at his factory, married Haentschel's daughter, and converted part of the complex into a hotel. |
26 January 2005
For many years £ód¼ was widely perceived as a city of factories and drab everyday existence. Few people noticed its architectural, landscape and cultural values. However, this perception has changed. |
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