Right before the hour in the Main Market Square, the pigeons appear to know something that the tourists don’t. People turn their heads toward the taller of the two brick towers of St. Mary’s Basilica, and about 266 feet up, a small window opens to reveal a brass trumpet bell. The tune is the hejnał, (roughly pronounced “hey-now”), consisting of five notes that rise, linger, and then stop, cut off mid-phrase as though someone had
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I don’t think I’ve ever visited a more whimsical destination than the enchanting Polish city of Wroclaw. From the colorful houses that are straight out of a Grimm’s fairy story to the hundreds of scattered gnomes that can be spotted throughout the downtown area, this is a city like no other. The third largest urban area in Poland, it’s often overlooked by visitors who head straight to Krakow and Warsaw. Big mistake.
I visited Wroclaw …