Tourist routes in Wroc³aw: Along Odra
Piotr W³ostowic's Boulevard / Mieczya³aw Michalak / Agencja Gazeta
Piotr W³ostowic's Boulevard
As you walk along the picturesque boulevard on the bank of Oder River, a 12th century Silesian knight and magnate is surely worth remembering as the street bears his name. We know when Piotr W³ostowic of £abêd¼ family, called W³ast, died. It was in 1153. He lived long enough to gain renown as a leader of wars and expeditions, as a founder of numerous convents and churches, as Boleslav III The Wry-mouthed's count palatine whom he became after Skarbimir's rebellion and exile. Due to Salomea's (BoleslavIII's wife) intrigues he was removed from the court, however Vladislav II restored him to favour and appointed him a voivode and Silesian region administrator. W³ast did not turn out to be very grateful, though. During the conflict of Vladislav II with his younger brothers, he supported them not him and was blinded in 1145 and banished. He went to Rus but returned a year later after Vladislav II had been exiled. He died in Wroclaw. Piotr W³ostowic's Boulevard runs on Piasek Island along the city Oder where it splits into southern and northern branches. It is a fragment of Piasek Island boulevards which are named are Stanis³aw Kulczyñski's and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyñski's. Since 1998 a boardwalk can be taken to Wroclaw's oldest part, OstrówTumski (Cathedral Island). The promenade was built after Millennium Flood in 1997.