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Hidden gemFortifications
Kłodzko
Kłodzko Fortress (pronounced roughly "KWOTS-ko") is one of the largest and best-preserved fortresses in Poland, spread over a hill above the old town of Kłodzko in Lower Silesia, close to the Czech border. Over more than 30 hectares you wi…
Hidden gemTechnical monuments
Kłodzko
According to a 17th-century chronicler, in 1286 every village around Kłodzko had to hand over eggs — the whites went into the mortar for building the bridge, while town servants sold the yolks for a heller a spoonful. The Gothic bridge ove…
Mountains & peaks
Kłodzko
For decades Kłodzka Góra (757 m) was thought to be the highest peak of the Bardzkie Mountains, which earned it a place in the Crown of Polish Mountains, a popular list of the highest summit in each range, even though newer surveys showed t…
Churches & monasteries
Kłodzko
Legend says it all began with a vision. Young Arnošt of Pardubice, a pupil at the Knights Hospitaller school in Kłodzko, saw the statue of the Virgin on the altar come to life and turn her back on him. He took it as a warning, went on to b…
Churches & monasteries
Kłodzko
Cross the Gothic bridge over the Młynówka and two towers with onion domes rise ahead – the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary with its Franciscan friary, the main landmark of Sand Island (Wyspa Piasek). The church stands on an island between…
Amusement parks
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…
Palaces
Kłodzko
More than a hundred rooms, some 6,000 m² of floor space and sgraffito from 1560 scratched into wet plaster: Gorzanów near Bystrzyca Kłodzka is one of the largest and oldest residences in the Kłodzko Land. It has never burned down or been d…
Palaces
Kłodzko
When the last tenants moved out of Kamieniec Palace in 2004, the building was being vandalised and stripped. Today this 18th-century Baroque residence in the Kłodzko Valley, near the spa town of Polanica-Zdrój, is a hotel with a restaurant…
Palaces
Kłodzko
Ławica is the lowest-lying village in the Kłodzko Valley, strung along a steep bank above the Nysa Kłodzka river right where it enters the Bardo Gorge. Above the former farmyard rises an eclectic palace with a five-sided tower, remodelled…
Historic sites
Kłodzko
The Kłodzko Underground Tourist Route (say "KWOTS-ko") is a roughly 600 m (2,000 ft) walk through medieval cellars and tunnels beneath the old town of Kłodzko in southwestern Poland, about 90 km (55 miles) south of Wrocław. Townspeople dug…
Old towns & squares
Kłodzko
Kłodzko Market Square (say "KWOTS-ko"), officially Bolesław Chrobry Square, is the heart of the old town in Kłodzko, a historic fortress town in southwestern Poland about 90 km (55 miles) south of Wrocław. The square is famously sloped, li…