Best Student Accommodation in Wrocław, Poland

University of Wroclaw

• Casita has two accommodation options within close distance of the university.

• There are two bus stops close to the university; Dmowskiego is just a 12-minute walk away.

• Moviegate, a cinema museum, is just a nine-minute walk away from campus.

Wroclaw University of Science & Technology

• Our two accommodation options are all within walking distance of the university.

• More than six bus stops surround the campus; Pl. Grunwaldzki is just a four-minute walk away.

• Hydropolis water museum is just a five-minute car ride away.

Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences

• Our three accommodation options are all within walking distance of the university.

• More than three bus stops are close to the campus; Pl. Grunwaldzki is just a minute walk away.

• Wrocław Multimedia Fountain is just a two-minute car ride away.

Is Wrocław good for international students?

Living and studying in Wrocław is a very rewarding experience, for everything you can learn as well as for the great times you can live there. Wrocław is a city with very affordable prices for students. It is full of young people from all over the world; that is because in the last few years it has become one of the most popular European destinations. The European Best Destinations association chose Wrocław as the best European destination in 2018. The locals are also so kind and friendly, they will always help you whenever you have to ask them for something.

The Market Square and Cathedral Island in the Old Town have to be your priorities, but Wrocław will also reward people who just want to wander and see what they can find. Plac Solny is a delight for its non-stop flower market and has St Elizabeth, the city’s tallest church, with a tower that you can climb if you’ve got the energy to burn. A little way up from there is maybe the best-preserved street in the city; Stare Jatki is in the old butchers’ quarter and has a continuous row of buildings from the 1600s and 1700s.

At 3.8 hectares, Wrocław’s Market Square is among the largest, not just in Poland but all of Europe. Like the rest of the Old Town, the Market Square has almost the same layout as it did when it was planned in the middle of the 13th century. A lot of the architecture, including the rows of colourful tenements that frame the square, needed heavy restoration after the Second World War. The pillory just next to the Town Hall dates to 1492 and had to be pieced back together. This, along with the Zdrój fountain from 2000 and the statue of writer Aleksander Fredro, is one of the three meet-up locations of choice for friends in Wrocław.

To honour the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Racławice, the Lviv-based artist Jan Styka began a 15 x 114-metre cycloramic painting and invited other famous artists of the day to help him complete it. The panorama, riding a wave of Polish nationalism, was a raging success and was on show in Lviv until after the Second World War when it was brought to Wroclaw. Its patriotic subject matter in the days of the Soviet Union meant it didn’t see the light of day until 1985. Since then the Racławice Panorama has been presented at a rotunda in Wrocław, depicting a battle that is engrained in the Polish national memory.

There are two main means of transport in Wrocław, buses and trams. The city offers over 60-day bus services and over 10-night services. There are also over 20 tram services available. The bus and tram network allows you to get to any place in the city. The bus and tram tickets are the same; they may be obtained from kiosks, ticket teller machines, Zabka stores, post offices or onboard. There are one ride tickets, that are only valid for one ride – after you leave the bus/tram you need to buy another one to go further. There are also time tickets, that allow you to change buses and trams until the ticket runs out of time. Time varies from 15 minutes to 168 hours (7 days); there are also monthly and yearly tickets. Although there used to be separate tickets for night buses and trams, you can now travel on night buses and trams with regular tickets.

The city also has a bike rental system that you can use. The advantage of the city bikes in Wroclaw is that the rental and return area is really huge. Even very remote parts of the city are connected and it is possible to return the bike almost everywhere. In addition, the first 20 minutes are always free. After the first 20 minutes, you just pay 2 PLN up to one hour and 4 PLN for every additional hour.

Casita offers student accommodation in other Polish cities besides having facilities for student accommodation in Wrocław. Some of these cities are:

Krakow, Lodz and Warsaw.