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Hala Targowa

A historic market hall in Wrocław, Lower Silesia, offering a variety of fresh produce, food stalls, and local goods under an iconic arched roof.

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Old on the outside, concrete-chic on the inside, the Hala Targowa of Wroclaw is a curious Russian doll of architecture. Delve behind the brick-built façade and you’ll soon be hopping from gingerbread shops to smoked Silesian cheese sellers, flower emporiums to fruit hawkers. Even if you’re not buying, it’s a doozy of a place for people watching. Be sure to look up and take in the amazing concrete arches. Mimicking the flying buttresses of an old cathedral, they score the ceiling like the bones of a mighty blue whale.

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Hala Targowa Articles

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    Wroclaw – pronounced frohts-wahf – might not be easy on the tongue, but it’s certainly easy on the eye! Spread over a series of small isles on the Oder River, it’s a classic medley of Gothic, Germanic, Slavic, and medieval architecture. Look here —an iron-clad turret filigreed with metalwork and gargoyles pokes above the skyline. […]

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