Alternative city breaks: Łódź, Poland – discover its culture, food and nightlife

Once an industrial centre, the city has been reinvigorated by a focus on the arts, a diverse food scene and plenty of lively bars

‘If it doesn’t fit, it fits perfectly,” is something of a buzz-phrase in Poland’s third-largest city, and it doesn’t take long to see why. It is a place where the next surprise – a fantastical, seemingly incongruous unicorn sculpture, a courtyard in which the buildings are clad with irregular shards of broken mirrors, a two-storey piece of gable-end street art intended to be viewed through 3D glasses – is never far away.