![]() At this time of the year, the alpinarium with the broadest array of spring flower colours looks particularly attractive. We will be welcomed by early spring flowers, such as snowdrops, hepatica, yellow fields of winter aconites, or increasingly popular hellebores in beautiful varieties from various parts of Europe. On Monday 2 April, at 12 pm, the Botanical Garden of the University of Wroclaw will be open again after the winter break. Tickets: 4 PLN full price / 2 PLN discount price Botanical Garden The garden is open to visitors from the beginning of April till the end of October (from 9 am till 7 pm). The history of this place is over 100 years old, dating back to 1913, when the World Exhibition was held in the Centennial Hall. It is an exceptional place created out of admiration for the Japanese garden art in co-operation with specialists from the Land of the Cherry Blossoms. Ticket offices, Customer Service Point – entrance from 9 am till 6 pmĪfter the winter break, the Japanese Garden will be open again in Park Szczytnicki.Zoo and Africarium – Friday, Saturday, Sunday and holidays APRIL – SEPTEMBER 2018 It is the world’s only oceanarium devoted only to the fauna of Africa. The biggest attraction of the Zoo is Africarium – an oceanarium that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. It is home to 14,000 animals, which represent over 1,000 species. The Wroclaw zoo is the oldest in Poland and has a rich collection of animals. The main power cable which is 6 km long runs under Odra River.Zoo Wroclaw is open all year round without any exceptions – on all days of the week and year, on all Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Power switchboard is outside, there are also power generators. Oceanarium-Africarium (Oceanarium-Afrykarium) has an independent source of power which is extremely important in case of power failure in the city. We want to avoid mistakes of other oceanariums, but we will make new ones for sure," says Radosław Ratajszczak with a smile. "We use the experience of other gardens, and the colleagues from abroad help us. Recently Director Ratajszczak counted the subcontractors and there are 64 of them. There are also teams from Germany, England and Switzerland involved in the construction and montage of various installations, and the Ukrainians worked with pouring concrete. Just like the Spaniards are specialised in interior design and the Japanese in the installation of acrylic glass through which we will watch the fish and animals. "Because the Dutch are excellent in everything connected with water," explains the director. We have also just received very important parts for filters waiting for installation, which came from the Netherlands. There will also be polyurea insulations of tanks, which have not been used in Poland on such scale before, or special pumps resistant to salt water. The roof will be retractable during the summer so that the animals have access to the sun and fresh air. There is air between the layers of PTFE film, hot enough to melt the snow. This applies to the roof made of plastic pillows (which shall be resistant to hail and attacks of birds). "60 per cent of the technologies used for the construction of Africarium (Afrykarium) has never been used in Poland before," underlines Radosław Ratajszczak, the President of Wroclaw Zoo (Zoo Wrocław) and the director of the garden. Soon those huge tanks will be filled with gravel, which will be exchanged in 5 or maybe 10 years. Apart from one hall, where they will be able to look through round windows - with 54 powerful gravel filters purificating water in the pools. In addition, there are other technical rooms, such as a kitchen where food for animals will be prepared, a room for divers, or elevator for transporting animals. There is a room with stand reserve tanks, used for mixing water with salt. All this will by controlled by a computer. There are kilometres of electric cables and thousands of metres of pipes providing heating, as well as huge ventilation shafts, where adults could walk without problems. ![]() ![]() The mounting of specifically custom-made pipes to the pumps and filters is in progress. Under the building (which is 160 metres long) in large halls and corridors, a complicated system of installations is being created, and it will be responsible for, among others, pumping and flow of water, its mixing and purification. This part is the oceanarium's "entrails", it is where its "heart" beats. And that underground floor is a big part of the facility, where the visitors won't have access. Oceanarium-Africarium (Oceanarium-Afrykarium) in Wroclaw has three floors, one of which is underground.
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