Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Selected city: frombork
Churches & monasteries
Frombork
Frombork Cathedral (Frombork is pronounced roughly "FROM-bork") is a vast Gothic brick church on Cathedral Hill above the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland, and the burial place of Nicolaus Copernicus. The astronomer spent much of his work…
Museums
Frombork
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork is a regional museum, founded in 1948, devoted to the astronomer who lived in this small town on the Vistula Lagoon for nearly three decades. It is not a single building but a group of sites: the…
Monuments & mounds
Frombork
Copernicus with a sprig of lily of the valley in his hand, six metres tall and distinctly unconventional: Mieczysław Welter's monument, unveiled in 1973, divided opinion from the start. Critics compared it to a block topped with a small he…
Coast
Frombork
Frombork harbour is at once a fishing, yacht and passenger harbour, and the cathedral helps with navigation: a red light in a tower window on Cathedral Hill serves as the rear leading mark. From the quay you therefore see the same towers t…
Coast
Frombork
The walk along the pier in Frombork leads about 300 metres out into the Vistula Lagoon, and since 2020 it begins on a new promenade with a renovated town beach. The pier was built in 1973, and after dark rows of lamps light up along its ra…
Old towns & squares
Frombork
Frombork's Market Square is laid out like a model of the Solar System: dark arcs in grey granite paving are the orbits, benches stand in for the planets, and Nicolaus Copernicus sits on the third one, Earth. The bronze figure looks towards…
Other
Frombork
In the park on ulica Dworcowa, between the Water Tower and the former railway station, stand two wooden brine graduation towers (tężnie), with curved rows of benches facing them as if they were a stage. They were officially opened on 11 Ju…
Technical monuments
Frombork
The Water Tower in Frombork was built in 1571, 28 years after Copernicus died, although for years the idea of building it was credited to him. The brick tower housed a machine that lifted water more than 20 metres and sent it through pipes…