Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
National parks
gmina Słońsk
Warta Mouth National Park (Park Narodowy "Ujście Warty"; roughly "OOSH-cheh VAR-tah") protects the floodplain where the Warta River joins the Oder, right on Poland's border with Germany. It is one of the most important wetland bird sanctua…
Nature
Łęknica
The Muskau Arch is a horseshoe about 40 km long, pressed into the ground by an ice sheet on both sides of the Lusatian Neisse — it is sometimes described as the only terminal moraine on Earth visible from space. For decades lignite, clay a…
Technical monuments
Łęknica
The Babina Former Mine Geo-Trail near Łęknica (pronounced "wenk-NEE-tsah") is a free forest trail past dozens of colorful lakes that formed in the pits of an old lignite mine on Poland's western border with Germany. It lies within the Musk…
Lakes
Łagów
Łagów sits on an isthmus between two lakes, and the southern one is calmer and shallower. Lake Łagowskie begins right behind the village houses, while its other shores are hidden in the woods of the Łagów Landscape Park. In summer pedal bo…
Lakes
Drezdenko
Lake Łubówko lies in the forests of the Drawa Forest (Puszcza Drawska), in the Drezdenko municipality, about 1.5 km west of the village of Zagórze. It covers just 15.38 ha but is up to 18.2 m deep, and its very clear water gives it a turqu…
Nature
Łęknica
The colourful lakes of the Muskau Arch are best explored on the "Former Babina Mine" geotourism trail between Nowe Czaple and Łęknica. These are not natural lakes but flooded pits and subsidence hollows left by a lignite mine that operated…
Monuments & mounds
Żary
On the market square in Żary, next to the town hall and in front of the Art Exhibition Hall, a Baroque composer sits on a bronze bench with a violin in his hands. The Georg Philipp Telemann bench was unveiled on 17 April 2010, the town's 7…
Fortifications
Świebodzin
In the 16th century the whole of Świebodzin was ringed by a wall with twelve towers and three gates, with a water-filled moat outside. Today only sections remain, and you have to spot them between town houses and trees. The best preserved…
Palaces
Zielona Góra
Roofless palace ruins with trees showing through empty windows, and the vast park of a former Duchess of Sagan: Zatonie, now part of Zielona Góra, is one of Zielona Góra’s most popular places for a walk. The palace burned down in 1945 and…
Gardens
Łęknica
Muskau Park (Park Mużakowski in Polish, pronounced moo-zhah-KOV-skee) is a vast 19th-century English-style landscape park straddling the Neisse River on the Polish–German border. Of its 728 hectares (about 1,800 acres), 522 lie in Łęknica,…
Old towns & squares
Międzyrzecz
Every day at noon the town bugle call sounds from the tower of Międzyrzecz town hall. The pink-and-white building with its neo-Gothic spire stands in the middle of an irregular square, surrounded by townhouses and St Adalbert's Church. It…
Old towns & squares
Żary
The Market Square in Żary is the centre of the largest town in Polish Lusatia, which according to Statistics Poland (2021) has 36,004 inhabitants. In the middle of the square stands a free-standing town hall whose brick origins go back to…
Old towns & squares
Zielona Góra
The Old Market Square in Zielona Góra (say "zhe-LOH-nah GOO-rah") is the historic heart of the capital of Lubusz Province in western Poland: a pedestrian square around a Gothic town hall with a slightly leaning 54 m tower, framed by colorf…
Technical monuments
Łagów
Anyone driving into Łagów from Żelechów passes under the arches of a brick viaduct, with the railway running high overhead. It is the most striking structure on the Międzyrzecz–Toporów line and, for walkers, one of the best viewpoints in t…
Nature
gmina Żary
On the southern edge of Żary begins the hilly Green Forest, where three towers stand within a few square kilometres: the 19th-century Promnitz tower, the unfinished Bismarck tower and a steel fire lookout. The last of these stands on Gołęb…