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Chorzów
In 1970 the Silesian Amusement Park welcomed 2 million visitors — a record that says a lot about what this funfair meant to Upper Silesia. Opened in 1959 in Silesian Park in Chorzów, it is the oldest amusement park in Poland. Since 2017 it…
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Zator
133 rides and shows, 20 roller coasters and a coaster that, when it opened, was the tallest and fastest hyper coaster in Europe. Energylandia in Zator, opened on 14 July 2014, is the largest amusement park in Poland and welcomed around 2 m…
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gmina Torzym
The wooden Wilkołak (Werewolf) roller coaster stands 22 m tall and reaches 71 km/h – a mirror-image copy of Heidi the Ride at Plopsaland De Panne in Belgium. Majaland Kownaty is a family theme park in western Poland's Lubuskie region, buil…
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Inwałd
"Świat Marzeń" Miniature Park in Inwałd is a family park with models of 65 famous buildings from Poland and around the world, set between Andrychów and Wadowice. In a single day you can stand beneath the Eiffel Tower, St Peter's Basilica a…
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Łódź
Arena Laser Games in Łódź (say: WOODGE) is an indoor laser tag arena inside Manufaktura, the city's huge entertainment complex built in a restored 19th-century textile mill. Run by the Experymentarium science center, it swaps paintballs fo…
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Katowice
Bajka Pana Kleksa (Mr Blot's Fairy Tale) is a family centre for play and learning in the former Porcelain Factory in Katowice: more than 1,400 m² of puzzles, experiments and sets inspired by Jan Brzechwa's novels about Professor Klex. It i…
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Bałtów
The Bałtów Tourist Complex began in 2004 with a dinosaur trail, and according to its owner it now covers around 100 hectares in the Kamienna valley. There is a safari park toured in American school buses, a European bison enclosure, a mini…
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Międzyzdroje
The Baltic Miniature Park at ul. Nowomyśliwska 98 in Międzyzdroje takes you around the Baltic Sea in 45 minutes. Models of monuments and lighthouses from nine countries are built at a scale of 1:25 and placed according to their real locati…
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Kasina Wielka
On the slopes of Śnieżnica (1,006 m) in the Island Beskids, an hour's drive from Kraków, bikes ride up on a six-seater chairlift and come down four trails ranging from smooth flow to black downhill. Bike Park Kasina is the summer side of t…
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Człuchów
Canpol Wonderland near Człuchów (say: CHWOO-hoof) is a family amusement park in the village of Sieroczyn in Poland's Pomerania region, part of a roadside complex that also includes a free zoo, a go-kart track, a restaurant and a hotel. Kid…
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Szklarska Poręba
Dinopark in Szklarska Poręba (pronounced roughly "SHKLAR-skah po-REM-bah") is a forest theme park in Poland's Karkonosze (Giant) Mountains, where a woodland trail leads past life-size dinosaur models set among spruce trees and boulders. Al…
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Skoczów
The Pyramids, the Colosseum, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower within a few hundred steps of each other, next to realistic dinosaur models and a house built upside down. Dream Park in Ochaby is a family amusement park on natio…
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Piaseczno
A DeLorean of "Back to the Future" fame, a "Harry Potter"-style car, a Chevrolet Camaro and Thomas the Tank Engine — in Zalesie Górne near Warsaw there is a collection of more than 50 cars from films and cartoons. Dzielnica Filmowa (Film D…
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Szydłów
The European Fairy Tale Centre in Pacanów (roughly "pa-TSAH-noof") is a children's culture center built around Koziołek Matołek, the little goat who stars in one of Poland's best-loved picture books. In the 1932 story by Kornel Makuszyński…
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Mościska
Farma Iluzji ("Illusion Farm"; say "FAR-mah ee-LOO-zee") in the village of Mościska is a family amusement park in the forest of eastern Mazovia, roughly halfway between Warsaw and Lublin. Its 6 hectares hold more than 70 attractions: optic…
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Łeba
Funlandia is an inflatable amusement park in Łeba at ul. Tysiąclecia 10 – almost 700 m² of bouncing, sliding and obstacle courses. Much of the fun takes place under cover, so the park comes in handy on family holidays by the Baltic when th…
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Polanica-Zdrój
Pirates, a jungle and a zip line on 7,500 m² — FunPark in Polanica-Zdrój is an outdoor playground with 14 attractions, where parents can relax over coffee on the terrace. The park was created near the centre of the spa town, on Kłodzka Str…
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Piechowice
A three-metre ant, a five-metre caterpillar and a butterfly that died out in the Sudetes in the 19th century — at GIGANTEI in Piechowice, insects have grown to giant size. This family theme park combines the legend of the Mountain Spirit w…
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Bałtów
Before concrete tyrannosaurs arrived in Bałtów, there was a legend about the devil. A mark in the rock above the Kamienna valley, known as the Devil's Footprint (Czarcia Stopka), was said to have been left by the devil leaping across the r…
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Ułęż
Instead of merry-go-rounds and plastic slides – wooden structures, pine cones under bare feet and a mud kitchen by a pond. Explorers' Forest (Las Odkrywców) in Ułęż (Ryki County) is a family adventure park laid out in 6 hectares of real wo…
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Borówiec
In the wooded village of Borówiec near Kórnik, inside a hall at ul. Uroczysko 1, a dozen trains run at the same time across more than 450 m² of H0-scale (1:87) layout. The operator bills it as the largest model railway in Poland, and it is…
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Rzgów
Mandoria – City of Adventures is an amusement park in Rzgów, about 20 km south of Łódź, on national road no. 1. Most of its rides are indoors, themed as a 16th-century Renaissance merchant town, so the park works whatever the weather. Next…
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Kłodzko
On the edge of Kłodzko, opposite the shopping centre on the road to Nowa Ruda, Europe has been rebuilt at a scale of 1:25. Minieuroland is a miniature park that opened in July 2015. More than 40 hand-made models stand among flower beds, wh…
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Władysławowo
On ul. Żwirowa in Władysławowo you can stand next to a life-size blue whale – the model is 34 metres long and is Ocean Park's signature sight. Across 20 hectares of this seasonal amusement park stand 1:1 models of marine animals, from shar…