Station Blog Wroclaw Airport

• 28.12.2011- The city of Wroclaw!

  
  Wroclaw, the city of bridges, situated on the River Odra is called by many the Polish Venice. It is the place of meetings and outings for thousands of tourists and the city of greatevents.
  Academic city, in which is located one of the oldest universities in Poland as well as in Europe, The University of Wroclaw, which was founded in 1702.
  
  Since 1946 Wroclaw has beenthe capital
  of Lower Silesia. Funded in IX-X century, Wroclaw (lat. Vratislavia or Budorgis, ger. Breslau) becomes an inherent part of polish history. The name of the city comes from the name ofCzech prince
  Vratislaus I, who ruled the city in X century and, according to the legends, was the founder. The early town was created in Ostrów Tumski, an island between branches of the OderRiver.
  
  Today,
  Wroclaw stretches out for over 300 km square and is inhabited by almost 650 thousand dwellers.
  
  The city lures the tourists by offering them such attractions likementioned before Ostrów
  Tumski, the Old Town, The Marked Square with the Town Hall, The Centennial Hall, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the Raclawice Panorama. As for thecontemporary attractions,
  those which are worth seeing are the Wroclaw Multimedia Fountain, the Japanese Garden, and a new Municipal Stadium
  
  Wroclaw is also the city of great investments.Their head offices have
  companies like Siemens, Volvo, Hewlett-Packard WABCO Polska, Whirpool Polar, Wrozamet SA. In the city can be also found Wroclawski Technological Park, in which is locatedmany companies like
  Innovative Software Technologies, Mitsubischi Electric, ContiTech, Ericsson, Technology Transfer Agency TECHTRA and plenty of others. Soon, it is about to be opened a new IBMIT center, which will
  employ 3 thousand office workers. Wroclaw won the battle for this center with cities like Katowice, Cairo or Budapest.