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KoĆobrzeg
KoĆobrzeg Lighthouse (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is a 26-meter red-brick tower built on top of an 18th-century fort right at the harbor entrance of this Baltic spa town. It is one of the easiest things to do in KoĆobrzeg: you walk straight offâŠ
Museums
KoĆobrzeg
The Museum of Polish Arms in KoĆobrzeg (pronounced roughly âkoh-WOB-zhekâ) is one of Poland's leading military history museums and one of the top things to do in this Baltic spa town. Its main branch in the town center combines a chronologâŠ
Landmarks
KoĆobrzeg
With its battlements, corner towers and red-brick walls it looks like a small castle, yet it was built from the start as the seat of the town council. KoĆobrzeg Town Hall was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the most celebrated architeâŠ
Landmarks
KoĆobrzeg
Lontowa Tower on ul. Dubois is the only part of KoĆobrzeg's medieval fortifications to survive intact. The Gothic brick tower is almost 18 metres high and stands in the town centre, by the former Prussian Square (today SĆowiaĆski Square).âŠ
Churches & monasteries
KoĆobrzeg
The Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in KoĆobrzeg (say "koh-WOH-bzheg") is the Baltic resort town's greatest monument: a five-aisled Gothic brick church whose massive tower block rises over the old town. Inside are rare medieval treâŠ
Nature
KoĆobrzeg
The Eastern Ecopark (Ekopark Wschodni) in KoĆobrzeg is a protected stretch of coastal peat bogs between the town's spa district and the suburb of Podczele, crossed by one of the prettiest cycle paths on the Polish Baltic coast. At its hearâŠ
Fortifications
KoĆobrzeg
The Stone Redoubt (Kamienny Szaniec) is a relic of the eastern defences of the former KoĆobrzeg Fortress, tucked into the dunes right above the beach at the eastern end of Stefan Ć»eromski Park. Built in 1832â1836 to fight off warships, witâŠ
Museums
KoĆobrzeg
The KoĆobrzeg Maritime Open-Air Museum (KoĆobrzeski Skansen Morski) is an outdoor branch of the Museum of Polish Arms in the town's fishing port. Its stars are two Polish Navy warships standing on dry land that you can climb aboard, alongâŠ
Coast
KoĆobrzeg
KoĆobrzeg Pier (say "koh-WOB-zheg") is a 220-meter (720-foot) concrete walkway reaching into the Baltic Sea from the heart of the town's spa district, and the single most popular thing to do in this Polish seaside resort. Walk to the end fâŠ
Museums
KoĆobrzeg
The KoĆobrzeg City Museum occupies the elegant Braunschweig Palace on Armii Krajowej Street, steps from St. Mary's Basilica and the town hall. If you want to understand how this Baltic resort came to be â from an early medieval stronghold,âŠ
Gardens
KoĆobrzeg
Beneath the paths of this park above KoĆobrzeg's beach there was once a military cemetery for the town's defenders of 1807, where columns from the medieval town hall served as gravestones for Joachim Nettelbeck and Ernst von Waldenfels. StâŠ
Coast
KoĆobrzeg
KoĆobrzeg Beach (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is a broad strip of fine, pale sand that runs for several kilometers east from the harbor and lighthouse, past the pier and the leafy spa parks, toward the suburb of Podczele. It is the main reason câŠ
Monuments & mounds
KoĆobrzeg
The Poland's Wedding to the Sea Monument in KoĆobrzeg (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is a bold modernist landmark in the seaside park between the lighthouse and the pier. Unveiled in 1963, it commemorates the symbolic "wedding" of Poland and theâŠ
Coast
KoĆobrzeg
KoĆobrzeg Harbor (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is the lively heart of this Baltic spa town: at the mouth of the ParsÄta River, fishing boats, excursion ships and yachts share the quays, while a lighthouse on an 18th-century fort watches over theâŠ
Fortifications
KoĆobrzeg
Among the yachts of the Solna Marina in KoĆobrzeg hides an 18th-century five-sided earthwork â one of the best-preserved parts of the town's former fortress. The Morast Redoubt, or Marsh Redoubt, defended the harbour and the mouth of the PâŠ
Fortifications
KoĆobrzeg
KoĆobrzeg Fortress is not a single castle but a scattered set of forts, redoubts and earthworks around the harbor and town of KoĆobrzeg (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg"), on Poland's Baltic coast. For more than two centuries, from 1653 to 1872, thisâŠ
Hiking & tourist trails
KoĆobrzeg
The Velo Baltica between KoĆobrzeg and Ustronie Morskie is a short, flat stretch of EuroVelo 10, the long-distance cycle route around the Baltic Sea. From KoĆobrzeg's port and parks it follows the seafront and then runs along a dune embankâŠ