Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Churches & monasteries
Gniezno
Gniezno Cathedral (Gniezno is pronounced roughly "GNYEZ-no") – formally the Primatial Basilica of the Assumption and St. Adalbert – is where the story of Poland as a Christian kingdom begins. Its first archbishopric was founded here in the…
Historic sites
Poznań
Brama Poznania ("BRAH-mah poz-NAH-nyah," meaning Gate of Poznań) is an interactive heritage center telling the story of Ostrów Tumski, the river island where both Poznań and the early Polish state began. Instead of display cases, it uses s…
Hidden gemMonuments & mounds
Waliszewo
At a crossroads near the village of Waliszewo stands a smiling innkeeper with a jug in his hand and a towel over his arm. He looks like a welcoming host – until you walk around him. The sculpture, known locally as Karczmarz z Waliszewa (th…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Sławno
On top of a former hillfort, among the old trees of a village cemetery, stands a dark wooden chapel with a tall tower crowned by a lantern cupola. St Rosalia's Chapel in Sławno (Kiszkowo municipality, near Gniezno) dates from 1785 and has…
Landscape parks
gmina Łubowo
Lednica Landscape Park protects the countryside around Lake Lednica ("led-NEE-tsa") in western Poland, halfway between Poznań and Gniezno on the Piast Trail. It's where Poland's story begins: on the island of Ostrów Lednicki stood a 10th-c…
Hidden gemMuseums
Gniezno
The Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno (say "GNYEZ-no") is the best place to understand why this small city in western Poland is called the country's first capital. Archaeological finds, Romanesque art and 19th-century hi…
Hidden gemMuseums
gmina Łubowo
This is more than a collection of old farmhouses. The open-air museum in Dziekanowice, on Lake Lednica, was designed to recreate the structure of a traditional Wielkopolska village: farmsteads gathered around a village square, a wooden chu…
Museums
Kalisz
The Dorotka Tower is the only surviving tower of Kalisz's medieval walls – out of eighteen that once reinforced them. Since 8 December 2018 it has housed the Centre of Kalisz Fairy Tales, Legends and the Town's Founding: a multimedia exhib…
Museums
Poznań
The Enigma Cipher Center (Centrum Szyfrów Enigma) in Poznań is an interactive exhibition about one of the great intelligence stories of World War II: how three young Polish mathematicians, Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki…
Technical monuments
Gniezno
The Gniezno Narrow-Gauge Railway is one of the oldest small railways in Greater Poland – its history began in 1884. The former network linked Gniezno with Witkowo, Powidz and Anastazewo; today trains run seasonally only on a short section…
Historic sites
Pobiedziska
Gród Pobiedziska (roughly "groot poh-byeh-JEE-skah"; "gród" means a fortified settlement) is a reconstructed early medieval stronghold and family history park in western Poland, halfway between Poznań and Gniezno. Behind its timber palisad…
Technical monuments
Poznań
For many Poznań residents, the narrow-gauge train along Lake Malta is a first childhood memory – and its story is older than the lake's leisure park itself. Maltanka started in 1956 as a children's railway in the Dębina district and moved…
Amusement parks
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…
Zoos
Leszno
The Leszno Mini Zoo is a small, free zoological garden in Millennium Park on 17 Stycznia Street, with a domestic animal enclosure and paddocks tucked among old trees. The history of Leszno's menageries goes back to 1903, and the zoo has oc…
Museums
Poznań
The Archaeological Museum in Poznań is housed in the Renaissance Górka Palace (Pałac Górków, say "PAH-wats GOOR-koof") at Wodna 27, a block south of the Old Market Square. Founded in 1857, it is one of Poland's oldest archaeological museum…
Museums
Poznań
The Armored Warfare Museum in Poznań (Muzeum Broni Pancernej, roughly "MOO-zeh-oom BRO-nee pan-TSER-nay") holds one of Poland's largest collections of tanks and military vehicles, displayed in modern halls in the city's Wola district. A br…
Museums
Opatówek
The Museum of the History of Industry in Opatówek occupies the Fiedler family's neoclassical cloth factory, built in 1824–1826 – a building that is itself a monument of technology. Its timber frame survives across five storeys together wit…
Museums
Osiek nad Notecią
The Museum of Folk Culture in Osiek nad Notecią (OH-shek nad no-TEH-chohn) is a peaceful open-air museum of village life in northern Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). Spread over 13 hectares (32 acres), it brings together 28 historic building…
Museums
Uzarzewo
The Natural History and Hunting Museum in Uzarzewo (say "oo-zah-ZHEH-vo") is a family-friendly museum in a 19th-century palace set in landscaped parkland about 15 km east of Poznań, in western Poland. It traces hunting from the Stone Age t…
Museums
Szreniawa
The National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa (shreh-NYAH-vah), a village just southwest of Poznań in western Poland, is the country's only agricultural museum of national rank and one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Set on a histo…
Museums
Poznań
The Poznań Museum of Armaments (Muzeum Uzbrojenia) is an open-air collection of tanks, aircraft, helicopters and artillery inside Citadel Park, the site of the old Prussian Fort Winiary, with a small indoor exhibition in a surviving fort b…
Museums
Gniezno
The Museum of Technical Heritage is a small private museum of motorcycles and old technology in the former cavalry barracks on Wrzesińska Street in Gniezno. It is run by enthusiasts from the ClassiC Gniezno Association, who restore the exh…
Zoos
Poznań
Poznań New Zoo (Nowe Zoo) is a woodland zoo on the eastern edge of central Poznań, opened in 1974 and covering about 120 hectares of hilly forest with six ponds. It is Poland's second-largest zoo by area. Instead of compact cages you get b…
Amusement parks
Lubnica
A beetle, a spider, a butterfly and a praying mantis the size of a car: in Lubnica, in the Okonek district, insects are shown magnified up to 200 times. Owadogigant is a family amusement park on the edge of the Drawa Landscape Park, where…