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Castles
Szczecin
For centuries the Griffin dynasty, the dukes of Pomerania, held court on this hill above the Oder; later Swedish governors ruled from here, and the future Empress Catherine the Great grew up within its walls. The Castle of the Pomeranian D…
Museums
Kołobrzeg
The Museum of Polish Arms in Kołobrzeg (pronounced roughly “koh-WOB-zhek”) 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 chronolog…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Stargard
Locals often call it the cathedral, although it has always been a parish church. The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Queen of the World, in Stargard is one of the most important Gothic churches on the Baltic: it is 77.5 m long, its nave is m…
Landmarks
Kołobrzeg
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. Kołobrzeg Town Hall was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the most celebrated archite…
Churches & monasteries
Szczecin
The Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Szczecin (pronounced roughly "SHCHEH-cheen") is the city's mother church and one of the great brick Gothic landmarks of the Baltic coast. Its spire rises just over 110 meters (361 ft), making it the s…
Churches & monasteries
Kołobrzeg
The Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Kołobrzeg (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 tre…
Museums
Szczecin
The Dialogue Centre Przełomy (roughly "psheh-WOH-mih", meaning "Breakthroughs") is an underground branch of the National Museum in Szczecin, hidden beneath Solidarity Square. It tells the story of postwar Szczecin – from the moment German…
Other
Szczecin
The Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin is the city's most famous modern building – a cluster of white, ice-like peaks that glows in changing colors after dark. Designed by the Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga, it won the 2015…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
The fort's German name – Engelsburg, the Angel's Castle – is no accident. Its round, stepped brick tower reminded the builders of Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo, the papal fortress on the Tiber. Fort Angel was built in the mid-19th century as a…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
Fort Zachodni (West Fort) in Świnoujście is a 19th-century Prussian coastal battery at the mouth of the Świna River, now home to the Fortress History Museum. Ringed by a water-filled moat and overgrown with grass, it sits on the western ba…
Museums
Międzyzdroje
The Wax Figures Museum in Międzyzdroje (pronounced roughly "myen-dzi-ZDROY-eh") is a popular indoor attraction in one of Poland's best-known Baltic Sea resorts, on the island of Wolin near the German border. Set on the promenade a few step…
Churches & monasteries
Koszalin
The oak figures of the apostles in the altar of Koszalin Cathedral were carved from wood felled in the winter of 1491–1492 in forests along the Vistula near Toruń – conservators established this through tree-ring dating. For a century and…
Churches & monasteries
Kamień Pomorski
Kamień Pomorski Cathedral (pronounced roughly "KAH-myen po-MOR-skee"), formally the Co-Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, is one of the oldest and most important churches on Poland's Baltic coast and a national Monument of History. For alm…
Churches & monasteries
Chojna
The tower of St Mary's in Chojna can be seen from far away across the flat fields of West Pomerania. It is one of the largest Gothic churches in Poland, attributed to the workshop of Hinrich Brunsberg, and after a fire in 1945 it stood as…
Churches & monasteries
Trzebiatów
St. Mary's Church in Trzebiatów (officially the Church of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Trzebiatów is pronounced roughly "tsheh-BYAH-toof") is a soaring Gothic brick church whose tower reaches about 90 m. It stands in a small…
Churches & monasteries
Rusowo
At a crossroads in the village of Rusowo, on a low rise next to a pond, stands a little church that remembers medieval Pomerania. Its massive tower and nave of fieldstone have survived fires, wars and shifting borders, and inside a Renaiss…
Churches & monasteries
Budzistowo
The Church of St John the Baptist in Budzistowo measures just 8 × 5 m, yet it is the oldest brick church in Central Pomerania and the only surviving monument of early medieval Kołobrzeg. It stands in a village that for centuries carried th…
Museums
Trzęsacz
Fifty metres from the most famous ruin on the Polish coast, on Klifowa Street in Trzęsacz, stands the Władysław Jagiełło Multimedia Museum of Trzęsacz, also known as MuzeON. Instead of display cases it has four rooms of images, light and s…
Museums
Kołobrzeg
The Kołobrzeg 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 – from an early medieval stronghold,…
Museums
Szczecin
The National Museum in Szczecin's Main Building sits right on the Chrobry Embankment (Wały Chrobrego), the grand riverside terraces that are the city's signature view. It is the flagship of the largest museum in Western Pomerania, and in o…
Museums
Świnoujście
The Sea Fishing Museum (Muzeum Rybołówstwa Morskiego) in Świnoujście occupies the town's oldest building, the former town hall from the early 1800s on Plac Rybaka (Fisherman's Square), right by the Świna River waterfront. It is a compact m…
Museums
Szczecin
Inside a tram depot from 1913 in Szczecin's Niemierzyn district you will find Stoewer cars, Junak motorcycles, trams and Polish prototype vehicles that never went into production. The Museum of Technology and Transport – known locally as t…
Zoos
Międzyzdroje
The Międzyzdroje Oceanarium (roughly "myen-dzy-ZDRO-yeh") is an indoor public aquarium in the heart of Poland's best-known resort on Wolin Island, a short walk from the beach and the pier. Across some 3,000 m² you'll see sharks, moray eels…
Palaces
Trzebiatów
Trzebiatów Palace (Trzebiatów is pronounced roughly "tsheh-BYAH-toof") is a neoclassical residence on the Rega River in northwestern Poland, about 30 km southwest of the Baltic resort of Kołobrzeg. Built on the site of a medieval stronghol…