St. Cyril and Methodius Church of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church was initially dedicated to St. Jacob and used by the Augustinian nuns. It was founded in the last quarter of the 17th c. In the middle of the 19th c. St. Ann was chosen as its new patron. In 1963 the church was handed over to the Orthodox Church. It represents a single nave type of the early baroque church laid down on a rectangular base with an interesting façade decorated with a monumental pinnacle.
Corpus Christi Church in Swidnicka Street was erected by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem who were summoned to Wroclaw from Sandomierz by Prince Henry IV Probus in 1273. The present church is a 15th c. late Gothic construction that was incorporated at he beginning of the 16th c. into the city fortifications. The church received later a new baroque decoration which has almost completely perished. It is a traditional three-nave basilica with a Neo-Gothic annex.
St. Elisabeth Church in St. Nicholas Street dates back to the 13th c. however, its presents shape was formed in the 14th c. Since 1525 the church belonged to the evangelical community. Over the span of centuries the church suffered by various disaster; the last huge fire in 1976 destroyed the magnificent organ constructed by Michael Engler. In 1946 the church was handed over to the military Roman Catholic parish. The St. Elisabeth parish church is a three-nave basilica with the southern tower crowned with a Renaissance helmet. From the numerous treasures collected here, only a few remains were saved: late Gothic choral stalls and sacramentarium, epitaphs and tombstones.
The Blessed Virgin Mary Church on the Sand Island - the first Romanesque church from 12th c., that was a part of the Augustinian monastery, was replaced in the 14th c by a Gothic church constructed under the guidance of Master Pietschko. It is regard as the most exquisite example of the mediaeval architecture in Wroclaw.
The Holy Cross Church in the Koscielny Square - the two- level collegiate was founded by Prince Henry IV Probus in 1288. The "lower" church of St. Bartholomew was consecrated at the end of the 13th c. whereas the construction works of the upper church were completed only in 1350. In the 17th and the 18th c. the church was renovated in the baroque style, and the new altars were also added. In 1810 the Cathedral Chapter was dissolved and the church was passed on to the cathedral parish. This is a three-nave hall church with two towers. It was intended to be the prince's initially situated in the presbytery was transported after 1945 to the National Museum in Wroclaw.
The National Museum is located in a building formerly used by the Silesian province authorities, erected in 1883-86 in the Netherlands Renaissance style according to a design by Carl Friedrich Endell. Since 1946 the building has housed the largest museum of Wroclaw, formerly know as the Silesian Museum, that takes care of the collections coming from the two pre-war municipal museums. The interiors of the building encompass three wards of which the central, representative one is decorated with a galss vault and surrounded by three floors of galleries.
The People's Hall was erected between 1911 and 1913 to commemorate the centenary of the battle of Leipzig. It was designed by the city architect Max Berg and was initially known as the Centennial Hall. The building was designed to house expositions and large public events. The monumental ferroconcrete dome construction is laid down on a circle with two adjacent apses that might be regarded as associations with central buildings of antiquity or Byzantine churches.
The City Hall - its site was occupied in the 13th c. by the Merchants' House, which served both as a business site and the seat of the local authorities. Over the next two centuries as the City Council grew in position the building was reconstructed and extended. At the end of the 15th c. the southern annex with three oriel windows and richly sculpted decorations were added. The late Gothic City Hall with Renaissance elements is one of the finest examples of Middle-European architecture of this kind. It is laid down on a rectangular base with an adjacent tower; on the ground floor the eldest Burgher Hall is located, the first floor encompasses the Great Hall and, on the eastern side, the Prince Hall that was initially a chapel.
The University of Wroclaw is situated in the Universytecki Square. The history of the building is related to the arrival of the Jesuits to the city of Habsburg gave them the King's Church for interminable use. In 1702 the emperor issued a Golden Foundation Bulla of the university, however the construction works started only in 1728 on the site formerly occupied by a gradually demolished castle. The rank of the university was elevated in 1811 after the fusion with the Frankfurt am Oder University, later known as Viadrina. After 1945 the University was reactivated as a Polish academy. The monumental, long building embellished with the Mathematical Tower includes beautiful baroque interiors.