Track Down the Gnomes of Wroclaw

One of the awesome things about Wroclaw is its quirky little charm that you won't find anywhere else but here, like the little gnome sculptures you can spot across Market Square and the entire city. How did these gnomes get here? Well, it all began with the protestors dressing as fairytale characters including gnomes to protest against the communist regime back in the 1980s.

After the Revolution of the Dwarves, the city chose to erect a bronze statue of a sizable dwarf on widnicka street, the site of the protests, to honor the struggle against communism. Since then, dwarves and gnomes sculptures have popped up all over the town square thanks to the work of one local artist, Tomasz Moczek, who made the gnomes sculptures to represent locals' daily lives. Nowadays, there are over 400 gnomes and dwarves across the entire city and it has become part of the city's identity and something you should look out for when exploring Wroclaw.