The City of Lodz is located in Lodz Province and is the second-largest city in Poland. (Pronounced Woodge) In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was the center for Poland's booming textile industry. Many of the elaborate houses of the textile barons may be seen today, many built in the Art Nouveau style. The largest, that of Izrael Poznanski, is now the Historical Museum. Before World War II Łódź had the second largest Jewish population of any city in Europe (approximately 300,000). Virtually all were transported to death camps by the Nazis.

 

Łódź has been the center of the Polsh film industry since the 1960s. Renowned directors such as Polanski, Wajda and Kieslowski are all graduates of the Lódz Film School. The Museum of Cinematography is located in another of the textile barons' palaces. 

Łódź is 82 miles (130km) form Warsaw. Frequent trains to the station Łódź Fabryczna take 2 hours

TumJust a few miles north of Łódź you should visit Tum to see the best preserved Romanesque church in Poland. It was built in 1161 and still maintains the original style in spite of various remodeling over the centuries. Remarkably well preserved is the frescoe in the west apse that was painted in 1161.

Climate 

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. The coldest weather tends to hit around February although the long winter of 2009/10 saw a record low temperature in Poland of -32 degrees.