Journeys around the imagination

The Balladyna and Gotard project is a kind of decree about what is already happening. The message is very positive because this is the only way we can truly change the world; looking to the future positively with optimism and noticing all the changes that have already been initiated.

One of the largest and most interesting cities in Poland, with origins dating back to at least the 10th century, it was one of the country's first capitals. The well-preserved buildings of the old town and the exceptionally interesting architecture from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries are the city's main assets. The oldest point of the city is Ostrów Island with a Gothic cathedral and the nearby district of Śródka, which was once a separate city.

We return to the city of Łódź. This is a not-so-well-known historical gem of the European age of inventions (the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the so-called belle époque). I invite you to a crazy walk around the city with timelapse shots, a short trip to this city in the heart of Europe, in Poland.

Łódź is a city that developed the fastest in Europe at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. From a small wooden settlement it turned into a world-famous center of the clothing industry, famous for its record-breakingly large factories and record-breaking pace of urban development. Rows of decorated Art Nouveau and neo-historical tenement houses were built in the middle of nowhere, taking the place of villages. The peculiarity of the city was its development mainly along one very long street, the former route to the old town of Piotrków Trybunalski. Today, the main promenade of the city is this former route, i.e. the current Piotrkowska Street. It is the longest promenade in Europe (not in Edinburgh but here) measuring 4 km, and the entire street is 7 km long. To this day, Łódź, the former city of inventions and progress (electric trams first appeared in Poland here, and the largest factory in Europe powered by a steam engine and many others were located here) is distinguished by its "New York" layout of streets in equal cross streets, which is not common on the "old continent". I have always been fascinated by the "belle epoque", a period in which humanity invented a lot of things, dreaming of a world similar to the one we already know from our reality. No wonder that that era still delights today, causing trends such as steampunk. It is worth coming here to feel this atmosphere.

Centuries-old temples, castles and houses are like time machines… Their walls remember countless stories and perhaps if we listen carefully, we will learn at least one of them…

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There are many paths and each of them has its own goal. Sometimes it is worth moving forward without a final goal. An interesting place appears here, regardless of how real or imagined (also by AI)