McCoy: maybe the word 'secret' is the key and they put on the list only less known things
spiritus: You're right McCoy. I wanted to compile a list of less well known attractions in Poland (even Elblag was pushing it a little). Wieliczka is VERY well know and so didn't make the list.
This is what I was thinking at first, but when you included Kosciuszko Mound in Krakow then I felt you should have included Wieliczka also :o)
My wife, who is from Wrocław, but has been living in London for the past 9 years can't remember the dwarves; were they introduced quite recently?
Just found this on the internet ....
"They appeared on the streets of the city in August 2005. Their history is connected with the Orange Alternative movement and the year 1982. It is then that some dwarfs with funny hats and smiling faces were painted as a graffiti covering anti-Communist slogans. The present day dwarfs are statues sculpted by Tomasz Moczek, graduate of the local Fine Arts Academy. There are as many as five dwarfs in the city. Each of the dwarfs has a name, e.g. Dwarf the Sleepyhead in sw. Mikolaja Street or Dwarf the Butcher in Jatki Street. There is also a museum dedicated to the dwarfs in one of the ''Hansel and Gretzel'' houses near the St. Elizabeth's Church in the town centre. Be watchful not to miss its door as it is halfway up your knee."
source : http://wroclawbyme.blogspot.com/2007/04/dwarfs-of-wroclaw.html
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