Stock Photo - Lodz - city in central Poland. Second Industrial Revolution brought rapid growth in textile manufacturing and in population due to the inflow of migrants, mostly notably Germans, Jews and Russians. Since those historic times Lodz is called 'city of thousands of brick factories and chimneys' and 'city of four cultures'. Here an example of old industrial architecture of the city - Piotrkowska OFF, situated just OFF Piotrkowska street between numbers 138-140, beautiful old cotton mill buildings of the former Ramisch factory, massive potential of the area was spotted by the young, enthusiastic artistic visionaries, now old buildings host bars, clubs, alternative music venues, studios, independent design companies, reminiscent of similar places in London or Berlin, OFF continues to attract new and off-beat local businesses with their pulse on current trends and fashions, Lodz, Poland, Europe