Travel diary in Poland where Lódz makes his cinema

By Bérénice Debras (text) and Éric Martin for

Le Figaro Magazine

(photos).

Kilometers of bricks, factories as vast as barracks,

flashy

"

palaces

" outrageously mixing styles ... Finally, a certain strangeness as escaped from David Lynch's films ... Lódz (pronounce "

Woudch

») Is confusing.

The third largest city in the country, 130 kilometers southwest of Warsaw, has neither a center nor a main square, but a backbone, the semi-pedestrianized Piotrkowska Street.

Stretching over 4 kilometers, it unfolds its Walk of Fame, a nod to Hollywood, under its freshly ripolined Art Nouveau facades.

Behind them open courtyards full of treasures: open-air cinema, murals and a thousand and one mirrors stuck on buildings (Roza Passage, a work by Joanna Rajkowska) ... All around, leprous buildings await renovation while the manufactures are reinventing themselves in a promising future.

Nicknamed the "

Polish Manchester

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