Sister cities of Łowicz

Łowicz [ˈwɔvʲit͡ʂ] is a town in central Poland with 30,383 inhabitants (2004). It is situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Skierniewice Voivodeship (1975–1998). Together with a nearby station of Bednary, Łowicz is a major rail junction of central Poland, where the line from Warsaw splits into two directions - towards Poznań, and Łódź. Also, the station Łowicz Main is connected through a secondary-importance line with Skierniewice.

The town has an important ethnographic museum (Muzeum w Łowiczu) exhibiting Polish art and historical artifacts from the region. Also, Łowicz features a popular skansen with traditional wooden houses. It is a vast open-air display of historical structures depicting traditional Polish village-life; a collection of artifacts spread over a 17-hectare site, just outside the town. Łowicz has also a football team called Pelikan, who languish in the lower divisions of the Polish leagues.

Near the town is the first welded road-bridge in the world, built in 1929 across the river Słudwia Maurzyce. It was designed in 1927 by Stefan Bryła from the Warsaw University of Technology.