Piotrkowska Street is the longest street in Europe. Łódź as a city began to develop in the 19th century. It was a city of very rich manufacturers and the working poor. There is a film nominated for an academy award from the 1970s. Title The Promised Land, directed by Andrzej Wajda (he received this award, but later). The film tells the story of the formation of Łódź and capitalism. Lodz will be a beautiful city in a dozen or so years. Old buildings are slowly being revitalized. We still need time and money. A new city center is slowly being built. This city resembles cities in the USA more than Europe in its structure. The monument depicts Tadeusz Kościuszko in the middle of the renovated square. He is a hero of Poland and the USA. He was an American general in the Revolutionary War and a friend Prezydent Jefferson. Manufaktura is a former factory complex of Izrael Poznański, known as the king of cotton. 22:57 Manufaktura borders his palace.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

These are some great facts about the history of Lodz. I did not know about the cotton king or that Piotrkowska Street is the longest in Europe. It's good to see this city being restored. 🇵🇱👏

Thankyou my friend

"Fart" in Polish slang means good luck. This monument in the center is a monument to the national hero of Poland and the USA. General Tadeusz Kościuszko - a close friend of Thomas Jefferson, with whom he shared ideals of human rights, Kościuszko wrote a will in 1798, dedicating his U.S. assets to the education and freedom of the U.S. slaves. General Kazimierz (Casimir) Pułaski (also a national hero of both countries). Casimir Pulaski was a Polish nobleman who became a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. One of the United States’ first cavalry commanders, Pulaski brought organization and proper training to the Continentals, securing the titles of “The Father of American Cavalry” and “Soldier of Liberty.” During a cavalry charge on October 9, 1779, Pulaski was mortally wounded by a grapeshot. They both took part in the American War of Independence against the British.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Quite amazing to know that this man was both a Polish and American hero. Thanks Wladyslaw.🇵🇱🇺🇲🤝

@wladyslawbukowski

Жыл бұрын

@@TravelAddictGuy You're welcome. I edited my post, please read it again. Thank you.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko is a big hero of both the uprising in Poland during partitions as well as Revolutionary War in America against the British. He was a skilled engineer with a military education by the time he arrived in the American colonies from Poland in 1776. Offering his services to the revolutionary cause, he masterminded a key British defeat at Saratoga and oversaw the building of military fortifications at West Point.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Wow! I was not wven familiar with his name. Until I came to Poland that is. A Polish and American hero. Amazing! 🇵🇱🇺🇲💪

@karo4524

Жыл бұрын

​@@TravelAddictGuyYes, both Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Kazimierz Pulaski (who came to the United States in 1777 to serve in Washington's army and helped form the American cavalry, which played a crucial role during the Revolutionary War,) should be included more prominently in school curriculum here in States, for sure. Btw, one side of that Tadeusz Kosciuszko monument in Łódź shows a relief of George Washington on it.

Some very neglected parts of town, but i hope they will be also renovated soon 😢

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

I would love to come back and see it when it's finished.

Very nice place and great italian goodies! Thanks for sharing.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Surpised to see Italian food here, but the cannoli was delicious.

You need to visit Lublin after Warsaw, it's a beautiful city with very friendly people.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Good to know.

Great video, l love languages too, it's so interesting learning the roots of words. Architecture and market area good too. Great work 👏

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

It's fascinating to see what different words mean in another language. I'm happy you enjoyed the video. Thansk Fiona. 🙏🏻😎

That's a cool place.

I really liked Lodz, it does have some grim areas though, I walked from Kaliska train station to the main street in Lodz and that area is a bit run down.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Yea, some parts don't look too good.

Galicja is also a district in Poland, south eastern Poland. Kraków is in Galicja, but also Lwiv which before WWIi was in Poland.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

I want to visit Krakow eventually. Thanks for sharing the info about Galicja. 🇵🇱👌

Thanks for sharing Kerry 🙂

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Poland is an intriguing place. You're welcome. 🙏🇵🇱😎

5:00 have been walking there countless times, and was laughing about some american or englishman reading it, and here you are 😂

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, you were right about that. 💨😄

Lodz was the most run-down city in the 90-s. Heavily destroyed during WW2 by Germans. There was a huge Jewish diaspora in the 30-s of XX century. It has been an industrial/manufacturing city. Some of it has been rebuilt after ww2, but most of the resources have been allocated to Warsaw. Not to mention that some of the buildings have been disassembled and re-constructed/used in Warsaw. Lately, this town is getting a lot of investment and let me tell you - it will be awesome 10 years from now. Especially that the buildings which have been saved - will be renovated and made into hipster-feel areas.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it's time for Lodz to finally shine, can't wait to see how it looks in a few years time. Thanks HC.

Yeah the worst thing is not getting a good nights sleep in a hostel if somebody is making lots of noise. I had a bad experience in Katowice with a guy from Ukraine putting the light on throughout the night, playing his mobile loud and drinking cans of beer in the room. I know for some it might even be their home but you still have to respect the other people in the room that are maybe tourists.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Drinking beer in the room and playing his mobile loud. Total lack of respect. 😮

A lot of Italians in poland, especially Lodz, working in office spaces, customer support, the jobs that need italian language. Next to Ukrainians, Slovakians (neighbours), Hungarians, Romanians and even Brasilians they are pretty much one of the biggest minorities here.

@TravelAddictGuy

11 ай бұрын

I did not know that. Makes sense why they would have Italian food here then. 👍

There used to be 2 Galcias in Europe one in Spain and one in Poland/Ukraine (Galicja in Polish) Galicia (/ɡəˈlɪʃ(i)ə/ gə-LISH(-ee)-ə;[1] Polish: Galicja, IPA: [ɡaˈlit͡sja] (listen); Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna, IPA: [ɦɐlɪtʃɪˈnɑ]; Yiddish: גאַליציע, romanized: Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.[2][3][4] It covers much of the other historic regions of Red Ruthenia (centered on Lviv) and Lesser Poland (centered on Kraków).

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

I did not know that. I only knew about Galicia in Spain. Thanks for teaching me something new today. 🙏😎

@perkunlitewski

Жыл бұрын

@@TravelAddictGuy No worries, if you go to southern Poland you will see - Galicja word in many places. Cracow is still called by some ....oh that's Galicja.

Manufaktura is a cool shopping mall.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

That place is cool, I thought it was a train station at first.

Been to Poznan 3 times as well, even more construction going on there than Lodz but it's a very underated city and certainly worth a visit.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

I was there over 4 years ago. My first time in Poland. It's a nice city.

@mariuszstopa903

Жыл бұрын

Poland at the moment is the biggest construction site in whole Europe (that is fact not opinion) and you can see it in Travel Addict Guy videos 😉

Cieszę się,że odwiedziłeś moją rodzinną Łódź🙂. Łódź to miasto fabryczne,taki polski manchester. Aby te Łódź odkryć,należy wcześniej poznać jego historie. To unikatowe miasto na mapie Polski. Wiele jest w nim perełek architektonicznych, ale trzeba wiedzieć gdzie szukać😀. Pozdrawiam kzread.info/dash/bejne/gY6uu49mY6fWiKg.html

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed visiting Łódź. From what you shared, it seems as though this city was the heart of the manufacturing revolution in Poland. Dziekuje Dawid.

Great videos. You seem to be stuck in Lodz :) greetings from Krakow. Come here :)

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the invite. I'll make it there one of these days. Cheers.

'FART' = luck, not to be confused with other meanings. The shop owner wanted to be clever. :)

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

It's funny to someone who doesn't know what it means. 💨😄

19:00 - You have to try these! It is some kind of ukrainian "franchise" in which You can drink a delicious cherry vodka. You can find those locals in some main cities in Poland (and Ukraine ofc)

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

That sounds good, need to try it. 🥃🍒

Pijana Wiśnia means "drunk cherry" and it's a chain of Ukrainian bars serving cherry liquer.

@sawomirmarnotrawny1694

Жыл бұрын

and then again cherrys and melons... r kinda visualy.... nice.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Nice, I liked their advertisement.

Yeah my hostel in Warsaw was also basically run by Ukrainians too, can't remember if I told you that in Bratislava. Hope you're doing good man!

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

I'm doing good. Nice to hear from you. Happy travels!

Great video Kerry and I wish you the best of “fart”, safe travels my friend

@sawomirmarnotrawny1694

Жыл бұрын

it is funny on so many levels.... i mean im polish and iam lugin' my ass off.

@sawomirmarnotrawny1694

Жыл бұрын

try to say szczeście... with means luck.. we r makin easy 4 u guyz.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

You used the word correctly. Good "fart" to you my friend. 😂🫘🐂💨

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Actually, fart is much easier.

Galicia is a region in Poland and Ukraine, not Spanish Galicia.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know there was another Galicia. Nice to learn something new. 👍🇵🇱

Fart in Polish means , Lucky, i believe ....an old Polish girlfriend used to call me ,Lucky, i`m starting to wonder if she mean`t something else ? lol

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

So esting beans must be lucky in Poland. That's a funny story you had with your girlfriend. Thanks Andy. 🫘🍛🐂💨😆

@andysm1964

Жыл бұрын

@@TravelAddictGuy no probs pal,discovered your channel few days ago by accident..great work!

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

@andysm1964 Thanks.

I personally think Poland is drab but everyone to there own opinion

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Everyone has their opinion.

@TheFairestMan

Жыл бұрын

@@TravelAddictGuy sure do

@HCforLife1

Жыл бұрын

nah, I have lived in the UK for over 8 years. You can compare how Lódz is perceived in Poland to how Luton or Brighton is. THese were drab to me while I was visiting them. Still - love both countries. Not so cheerful like Italy or Spain, but for sure both better for professional life and work culture.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

@@HCforLife1 Appreciate you weighing in on the subject. I guess it's not as pretty as cities like Krakow or Wroclaw. But I found the people to be quite warm and friendly.

@TheFairestMan

Жыл бұрын

@@HCforLife1 there 10x worse places in England than Luton and Brighton and 100x better places.. Gleadless in Sheffield and bootle in Liverpool.. And better places like york and Chester

dude, do your homework. you were walking straight through the former lodz ghetto, where 300.000 people live under terrible conditions.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

That's very interesting. I also visited a Jewish ghetto in Budapest. 👍✡️

Wodz look boring mate....

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

Maybe, but for me it's worth seeing every city that I can.

'fart' means luck... u can call it slang. and it was used close shop. again łódz is old industrial city. was like 60% of Jews. after war ... well ... moust of the city was dead. repopulated of well not very educated folk. manufakora means workshop... or industial aeria. galicja is part of poland region.

@TravelAddictGuy

Жыл бұрын

"Fart" means luck. That would be a funny joke in English. 😂😂🐂💨

@sawomirmarnotrawny1694

Жыл бұрын

@@TravelAddictGuy used stuff to wear cheap. kinda fart ;) but back in the day... kinda luck. iam pushin' 50 so i do remember a load of strange, crige facts and stories.dude and about Tadeusz Kościuszko u shold learn in shool. he kinda help wrote ur constytusion. and kick ass doin' it. with ur first president.... google its funny story. A bronze statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko by Antoni Popiel is installed in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park,

@bogumilak1391

Жыл бұрын

Łódź była miastem czterech kultur, polskiej ,żydowskiej ,niemieckiej i rosyjskiej (a także mieszkało tu sporo czechów i austriaków ) a więc było to społeczeństwo także zróżnicowane wyznaniowo. Nie mam pojecia skad ci sie wzielo to 60 % żydów zamieszkujących Łódź ( i gdzie to wyczytales albo kto ci takich bzdur naopowiadał ) skoro w 1936 roku katolicy stanowili 56,2 % (!!!! 56% katolicy !!!!!!) mieszkańców (a nie sadze zeby zydzi byli wyznawcami Jezusa Chrystusa!!!!!) , wyznający religię mojżeszową - 34,3 %, a ewangelicy - 8,9 % i 0,4% prawosławie . Zastanawia mnie co wy macie w tych głowach i co chcecie osiągnąć wypisując takie bzdury ?Tu masz świetne i bardzo czytelne opracowanie tego tematu zeby nie bylo, ze cos zmyslam file:///C:/Users/Bogusia/Downloads/3-087_104-Rzepkowski.pdf

@bogumilak1391

Жыл бұрын

Łódź była miastem czterech kultur, polskiej ,żydowskiej ,niemieckiej i rosyjskiej (a także mieszkało tu sporo czechów i austriaków ) a więc było to społeczeństwo także zróżnicowane wyznaniowo. Nie mam pojecia skad ci sie wzielo to 60 % żydów zamieszkujących Łódź ( i gdzie to wyczytales albo kto ci takich bzdur naopowiadał ) skoro w 1936 roku katolicy stanowili 56,2 % (!!!! 56% katolicy !!!!!!) mieszkańców (a nie sadze zeby zydzi byli wyznawcami Jezusa Chrystusa!!!!!) , wyznający religię mojżeszową - 34,3 %, a ewangelicy - 8,9 % i 0,4% prawosławie . Zastanawia mnie co wy macie w tych głowach i co chcecie osiągnąć wypisując takie bzdury ?Tu masz świetne i bardzo czytelne opracowanie tego tematu zeby nie bylo, ze cos zmyslam file:///C:/Users/Bogusia/Downloads/3-087_104-Rzepkowski.pdf

@sawomirmarnotrawny1694

Жыл бұрын

@@bogumilak1391 przepraszam w sensie jak mówisz to był mix narodów i kultór. przez 60% mówie róznych nacji... mój angielski nie jest za dobry. wyluzuj poślady w łodzi było mnie polaków rodowitych niz inny nacji... oni identyfikowali sie jako polacy ale nie byli rodowatymi polakami. i katolickich odmian wiary jest na peczki.... ale masz racje przepraszam naduszyłem stwierdzenia. i tak zeby popsuć twój argument.... to powiedz mi Jezus Chrystus nie był przypadkiem z pochodzenia żydem? naszym angielsko jezycznym powinenas wyjaśnic róznice miedzy zydem a wyznawca 'religi' Mojrzeszowej.