Wroclaw Dwarfs - Capgeminiusz Programista

Mostly bronze, often cheeky, and each about a foot tall, these are Wroclaw’s dwarfs (or krasnale in Polish), and there are 163 of them dotted about the city in various guises (this is the official figure, though some sources claim there are as many as 350). 

The first dwarf to call Wroclaw home was “Papa Dwarf”, placed on Świdnicka Street in 2001. This father of the dwarfs is slightly larger than the others, with a different style of construction, precedes his brethren by a few years, and carries a graver history and meaning.

Papa was placed on this main street into the city as it was here that the Orange Alternative, an anti-communist underground movement that claimed the dwarf as its symbol, used to meet in the Eighties to protest against the authoritarianism of Poland’s Soviet masters.

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