When you land at Copernicus Airport Wroclaw (WRO) you enter multinational history. Wroclaw is the historic capital of Silesia, a region contested over the centuries by Bohemia, Austria, Prussia, Germany and Poland. Car hire in Wroclaw will take you to its most famous landmark, the Gothic City Hall in the Market Square. Today, Wroclaw is the largest Polish city in the country's south-western region.
One of Wroclaw's popular attractions is the Raclawice Panorama. This is a cylindrical painting of a 1794 battle when Polish rebels defeated the Russian tsarist armies at the village of Raclawice, located south of Wroclaw on the Czech border.
The Wroclaw Opera House was built in the mid-19th century and has been recently restored. The city's Centennial Hall and Zoo were constructed in the early 20th century, when it was under German rule and called Breslau. The Grunwald Bridge over the Odra River was also built in the early 20th century. Its name derives from a battle in 1410 in northern Poland when Polish, Lithuanian and Tatar forces defeated an eastern crusade by the Teutonic Knights.
Wroclaw car hire will enable you to explore the city's German roots along the trails of the famous fictional detective, Ebehard Mock. This character was created by Marek Krajewski, who is Polish and a classics professor at Wroclaw University.
Wroclaw's cathedral, the St John the Baptist Church, dates from the 13th century. The first church on this site was built in the 10th century by a Czech dynasty. The region was acquired by Polish monarchs in the 11th century.
The Ossolineum Library on the Odra River bank is the second most important collection of literary and historical documents in Poland after the Jagellonian Library in Krakow. Many of its documents were rescued from the original Ossolineum location in Lviv, in today's western Ukraine, which was a Polish city pre-1939.
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