More than thousand-year history of Wroclaw are turbulent and restless - its attractive location made over the centuries was part of more and more countries. And although its history is inextricably linked with the Poles - before the war they lived here twenty thousand - no one really believed that this city again after a few hundred years, become part of the Polish. 

Residents of Wroclaw has unpretentiousness and openness to new people - maybe because everyone here is in some way newcomers. The city itself is a combination of the German tradition, visible mainly in the location and architecture - the legacy of the Eastern borderlands. Particularly important is the spiritual bond with the pre-war Polish Wroclaw Lviv - this is resettled in the forties Lviv intelligentsia played a large role in the rebirth of the city and the way in which stood the local culture, moving here, their traditions, institutions and artistic achievements (including canvas Panorama Raclawicka and standing in the market monument of Aleksander Fredro). 

The oldest information about Wroclaw come from the ninth century, which is one of the Slavic tribes has set a fortress on the island Tum. The tribe was soon conquered by the Czechs under the command of a brave prince Wratislawa, whose name was later named after the city. 

In thousandths of Wrocław was already under the rule of Polish prince Boleslaw the Brave, who at the Congress of Gniezno established in Wroclaw bishopric. After breaking a regional city came under the rule of the Silesian princes, and 1388 years has been detached from the Polish for seven consecutive centuries. 

In the meantime, belonged successively to the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany, which did not prevent him to become one of the most important commercial and cultural centers of Central Europe. 

Position of Wroclaw has significantly increased in the seventeenth century, when - under the name of Breslau - it came together with the Czech state in the powerful Austrian Habsburg Empire. After the Seven Years' War (1756 - 1763) Breslau passed under the dominion of the German and remained in it until 1945. 

In August 1939, just before the start of World War II, Wroclaw count each 630,000 inhabitants - including twenty thousand Poles and Jews as much. From the early thirties, Jews slowly migrated outside the Reich, and those who decided to stay in Wroclaw, in time of war shared the tragic fate of their European compatriots. 

In 1945, even though the outcome of the war was already a foregone conclusion, the Germans decided to not give the city without a fight: the bloody battle of Wroclaw lasted from January until May 6 and destroyed about 70% of the building. 

The Treaty of Yalta in 1945, Wroclaw and Gdansk came together in the so-called Recovered Territories as compensation for taken by the Soviet Union Lviv and Vilnius. Began mass deportations share of German citizens. At the same time came to the capital of Lower Silesia, Poland lost by the residents of the Eastern Borderlands. In 1946 there were already 166,000 Poles who willingly helped with the reconstruction of the city. 

Currently, the city is going through another period of prosperity: historical buildings are restored in the center and on the outskirts of modern buildings is slowly replacing the gray socialist blocks. After strolling the streets and not only Poles, Czechs and Germans, but also travelers from all over the world - which makes Wroclaw real meeting place.

Climate

Poland has a temperate climate with hot summers and cold winters. Seasons tend to be more pronounced than in the west and temperatures can get down as low as -20 C in winter and as high as +30 C in summer.