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KOMMENDE STERNFAHRT
69. INTERNATIONALE
POLIZEISTERNFAHRT 2016
ŁÓDŹ – POLEN
Dear participants of Polizeisternfahrt 2016!
I am really glad that I will be able to welcome you at the 69 th international rally of
the Police in Łódź.
Łódź, being associated with textiles, became the main textile industry centre in 19 th
and 20 th centuries. Talented and brave people from the whole Europe were coming
right here to build their big enterprises. They left enormous factories, beautiful
mansions, palaces and townhouses, temples and cemeteries and traces of multiculture.
Local architecture, not being destroyed by the war, attracts a lof of filmmakers
from the whole world, who also started their careers in the Film School in Łódź. Working-class style
of the city initiated modern art and this resulted in locating in our city the biggest and oldest in this part of
Europe collection of avant-garde. So it is not a coincidence that I am inviting you to Łódź and other important
places, together with the beautiful, eclectic Piotrkowska Street, modern Atlas Arena and Expo trade
fair area and carbon sinks of the city – the Łagiewnicki Forest. Located in the centre of Poland and having
great and convenient transportation facilities with the most of European cities (both by car and train) Łódź
is a nice destination for your future journey. I encourage bikers and drivers from the whole Europe to discover
this amazing spot on the map. I am sure that you will also like travelling along the roads of our city
and region, discovering interesting infrastructure solutions connecting the most attractive touristic spots
and visiting unforgettable green areas characteristic for the city and the neighbourhood. The Uniejów Park
Health Resort, Zoo Safari in Borysew, Blue Springs Nature Reserve in the forests of Spała near the Zalew
Sulejowski and the European bison reserve in Smardzewice – these are only some of the attractions that
organizers of the 69 th police rally have chosen for you. The programme is also filled with the absolute „must“
in Łódź – walks with guides who will present you Łódź as the city of textile, movie and four cultures. And
we also have an attraction for the youngest – a city game
with fairy-tale trail of characters from Se-Ma-For, famous
for producing the most of animated films for children.
So I am inviting you to Łódź, the city which has been
known among German speaking European citizens since
1974 (thanks to Vicky Leondros‘s hit „Theo – wir fahren
nach Łódź“). All routes of the curious of the world lead to
Łódź.
Have a safe and happy journey and interesting and nice
time spent in our city.
Hanna Zdanowska – the President of Łódź
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