Editing Łódź (section)

===Landmarks and events===
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The most notable and recognizable landmark of the city is [[Piotrkowska Street]], which remains the high-street and main tourist attraction in the city, runs north to south for a little over {{convert|5|km|mi|spell=in|abbr=off}}. This makes it one of the longest commercial streets in the world. Most of the building façades, many of which date back to the 19th century, have been renovated.<ref>[https://www.poland.travel/en/lodz/piotrkowska-street-stroll "Piotrkowska Street Stroll."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729004747/https://www.poland.travel/en/lodz/piotrkowska-street-stroll |date=29 July 2017 }} ''Poland's Official Travel Website''. Retrieved 18 July 2017.</ref> It is the site of most restaurants, bars and cafes in Łódź's city centre. Important monuments of architecture along Piotrkowska Street are the Old Town Hall, the Descent Of The Holy Spirit Church, the [[Łódź Cathedral|Łódź Catholic Cathedral]] and the [[St. Matthew's Church, Łódź|St. Matthew's Lutheran Church]]. Other important churches in the city center include the [[Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Łódź|Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Cathedral]] and the [[Karol Scheibler's Chapel]], Lutheran part of Ogrodowa Street Cemetery.

Many neglected tenement houses and factories throughout the entire city centre have been renovated in recent years as part of the ongoing revitalization project run by the local authorities.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krakowiak |first1=Beata |date=2015 |title=Museums in Łódź as an Element of Tourism Space and the Connection Between Museums and the City's Tourism Image |journal=Tourism |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=87–96 |doi=10.1515/tour-2015-0008 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/tour.2015.25.issue-2/tour-2015-0008/tour-2015-0008.xml |issn=0867-5856 |eissn=2080-6922 |access-date=18 July 2017 |doi-access=free |hdl=11089/20697 |hdl-access=free }}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (p. 93).</ref> The best example of urban regeneration in Łódź is the [[Manufaktura]] complex, occupying a large area of a former cotton factory dating back to the nineteenth century.<ref name="Kaczmarek">{{cite book |last1=Kaczmarek |first1=Sylwia |last2=Marcinczak |first2=Szymon |editor1-last=Leary |editor1-first=Michael E. |editor2-last=McCarthy |editor2-first=John |title=The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration |publisher=Routledge |date=2013 |pages=98–106 |chapter= The Blessing in Disguise: Urban Regeneration in Poland in a Neo-Liberal Milieu |isbn=978-0-415-53904-3}} (p. 103).</ref> The site, which was the heart of [[Izrael Poznański]]'s industrial empire, hosts a shopping mall, numerous restaurants, 4-star hotel, multiplex cinema, factory museum, bowling and fitness facilities and a science exhibition centre.<ref name="Strumiłło">{{cite book |last=Strumiłło |first=Krystyna |editor-last=Charytonowicz |editor-first=Jerzy |title=Advances in Human Factors and Sustainable Infrastructure |publisher=Springer |date=2016 |pages=51–59 |chapter=Adaptive Reuse of Buildings as an Important Factor of Sustainable Development |isbn=978-3-319-41940-4}} (p. 56).</ref> Opened in 2006, it quickly became a centre of cultural entertainment and shopping,<ref name="Strumiłło" /> as well as a recognizable city landmark attracting both domestic and foreign tourists.<ref name="Kaczmarek" /> Another example is the former factory of [[Karl Wilhelm Scheibler|Karl Scheibler]] on [[Księży Młyn (Łódź)|Księży Młyn]], which was turned into a mixed-use complex of offices and housing.
[[File:Kamienica Dawida Sendrowicza (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|left|Dawid Sendrowicz's tenement house presents historical architecture, which is characterized by neo-Gothic, neo-Baroque and Neo-Renaissance elements.]]

Łódź also provides plenty of green spaces for recreation. Woodland areas cover 9.61% of the city, with parks taking up an additional 2.37% of the area of Łódź ({{as of|2014|lc=y|post=).}}<ref name="dlugonski">{{cite journal |last1=Długoński |first1=Andrzej |last2=Szumański |first2=Marek |date=2015 |title=Analysis of Green Infrastructure in Lodz, Poland |journal= Journal of Urban Planning and Development |volume=141 |issue=3 |pages=n. pag |issn=0733-9488 |eissn=1943-5444 |doi=10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000242}}</ref> {{lang|pl|Las Łagiewnicki}} ('Łagiewnicki Forest') is recognized as the largest forested area within the administrative borders of any city in Europe.<ref name="jaskulski">{{cite journal |last1=Jaskulski |first1=Marcin |last2=Szmidt |first2=Aleksander |date=2015 |title=The Tourism Attractiveness of Landforms in Łagiewnicki Forest, Łódź |journal=Tourism |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=27–35 |access-date=28 July 2017 |issn=0867-5856 |eissn=2080-6922 |doi=10.1515/tour-2015-0003 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/tour.2015.25.issue-2/tour-2015-0003/tour-2015-0003.xml |doi-access=free |hdl=11089/20692 |hdl-access=free }}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (p. 27)</ref> It has an area of 1,245 ha<ref name="dlugonski" /> and is cut across by a number of hiking trails that traverse the hilly landscape on the western edge of [[Łódź Hills Landscape Park]].<ref>See Jaskulski and Szmidt, p. 29, for a map of tourism trails in the forest.</ref> A "natural complex which has remained nearly intact as oak-hornbeam and oak woodland,"<ref name="jaskulski" /> the forest is also rich in history, and its attractions include a [[Franciscan]] friary dating back to the early 18th century and two 17th-century wooden chapels.<ref>{{cite book |title=Ilustrowana Encyklopedia Historii Łodzi |date=2015 |publisher=MyDesign |isbn=978-83-939822-0-2 |editor1-last=Grzegorczyk |editor1-first=Arkadiusz |location=Łódź |pages=59–61}}</ref>

Out of a total of 44 parks in Łódź ({{as of|2014|lc=y|post=),}} 11 have historical status, the oldest of them dating back to the middle of the 19th century.<ref>Kaniewska, Anna. [http://www.lodz.ap.gov.pl/art,58,najstarsze-lodzkie-parki "Najstarsze łódzkie parki.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131071740/https://www.lodz.ap.gov.pl/art,58,najstarsze-lodzkie-parki |date=31 January 2022 }} ''Archiwum Państwowe w Łodzi''. [''The State Archive in Łódź'']. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2017.</ref> The largest of these, Józef Piłsudski Park ({{convert|188.21|ha|sqmi}}),<ref name="dlugonski" /> is located near the [[Łódź Zoo]] and the city's botanical garden, and together with them it comprises an extensive green complex known as {{lang|pl|Zdrowie}} serving the recreational needs of the city. Another notable park located in Łódź is the [[Józef Poniatowski Park in Łódź|Józef Poniatowski Park]].
[[File:ZOO Lodz tunel.jpg|right|thumb|Orientarium in the [[Łódź Zoo]], opened in 2022]]

The [[Jewish Cemetery, Łódź|Jewish Cemetery at Bracka Street]], one of the largest of its kind in Europe, was established in 1892. After the [[invasion of Poland]] by [[Nazi Germany]] in 1939, this cemetery became a part of Łódź's ''eastern territory'' known as the enclosed Łódź ghetto (''Ghetto Field''). Between 1940 and 1944, approximately 43,000 burials took place within the grounds of this rounded-up cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishlodzcemetery.org/EN/AboutCemetery/AboutCemeteryAtBrackaStreet/Default.aspx|title=Jewish Lodz Cemetery – About Cemetery At Bracka Street|access-date=25 January 2017|archive-date=7 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107091938/http://www.jewishlodzcemetery.org/EN/AboutCemetery/AboutCemeteryAtBrackaStreet/Default.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1956, a monument by Muszko in memory of the victims of the [[Łódź Ghetto]] was erected at the cemetery. It features a smooth obelisk, a [[menorah (Temple)|menorah]], and a broken oak tree with leaves stemming from the tree (symbolizing death, especially death at a young age). {{As of|2014|post=,}} the cemetery has an area of {{convert|39.6|ha}}. It contains approximately 180,000 graves, approximately 65,000 labelled tombstones, ohels and mausoleums. Many of these monuments have significant architectural value; 100 of these have been declared historical monuments and have been in various stages of restoration. The mausoleum of [[Izrael Poznański|Izrael and Eleanora Poznański]] is perhaps the largest Jewish tombstone in the world and the only one decorated with mosaics.<ref>{{cite web |title=The New Cemetery in Łódź |url=http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lodz/newcem.htm |publisher=Lodz ShtetLinks |access-date=12 January 2013 |archive-date=13 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313232301/http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lodz/newcem.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jewish Cemetery |url=http://www.lodzjews.org/root/form/en/cmentarz/index.asp |publisher=Fundacja Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzese |access-date=12 January 2013 |archive-date=18 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418053651/http://www.lodzjews.org/root/form/en/cmentarz/index.asp |url-status=live }}</ref>

<gallery mode="packed" caption="Tenement houses at Piotrkowska Street">
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 99 2017 (0) ID 613244.jpg|Szaja Goldblum's tenement house
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 143 (1) ID 613254 (cropped).jpg|Krusche & Ender's tenement house
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 86 2017 (1) ID 613240.jpg|House under Gutenberg
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 109 2017 (0) (cropped).jpg|109 Piotrkowska Street
File:Kamienica Scheiblerów Łódź 01 (cropped).jpg|Karol Scheibler's tenement house
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 149 (0) (cropped).jpg|149 Piotrkowska Street
File:Łódź Piotrkowska 152 DSC 0084 (cropped).jpg|152 Piotrkowska Street
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 74 2017 (0) ID 613237 (cropped).jpg|Ludwik Geyer's bank
File:Łódź, ul. Piotrkowska - panoramio (6) (cropped).jpg|Teodor Steigert's tenement house
File:Łódź - Ulica Piotrkowska 53.jpg|Herman Konstadt's tenement house
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 31 2017 (0) ID 613225 (cropped).jpg|Sender Dyszkin's tenement house
File:Dom bankowy Wilhelma Landaua Łódż 01 (cropped)2.jpg|Wilhelm Landau's bank
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 147 (0) ID 613255.jpg|Antoni Petzold's tenement house
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 145 (0) (cropped).jpg|145 Piotrkowska Street 
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 128 2017 (1) ID 613251 (cropped).jpg|Schychts' tenement house
File:Kamienica I.K. Poznańskiego w Łodzi 01 (cropped).jpg|Izrael Poznański's tenement house
File:SM Łódź Piotrkowska 19 2017 (0) ID 613222 (cropped).jpg|Abram Lubiński's tenement house
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