Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Churches & monasteries
Łódź
The tallest building in Łódź is not an office tower but a church. The tower of the Archcathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus Kostka at 265 Piotrkowska Street rises 104.5 metres, and the church itself — built of bare, pale-yellow brick — was…
Old towns & squares
Łódź
Piotrkowska Street in Łódź (say pyot-ROOF-ska, and the city is woodge) is the main street of one of Poland's largest cities and one of the longest high streets in Europe: a dead-straight 4.2 km avenue lined with the mansions, banks and hot…
Landmarks
Łódź
Behind a red-brick wall in the Bałuty district lies a forest of matzevot (Jewish headstones), mausoleums and old trees. The Jewish Cemetery on Bracka Street opened in 1892 and is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. It covers ab…
Hidden gemOld towns & squares
Łódź
Under the feet of people strolling along Piotrkowska Street lies an open-air gallery of Polish cinema. The Łódź Walk of Fame consists of more than 113 brass stars set into the pavement — from Andrzej Seweryn, who received the first in 1998…
Hidden gemTechnical monuments
Łódź
The White Factory in Łódź (Biała Fabryka, BYAH-wah fah-BRI-kah) is a gleaming neoclassical cotton mill built by Ludwik Geyer at 282 Piotrkowska Street, one of the oldest and most important industrial monuments in Poland. Today it houses th…
Hidden gemCastles
Łęczyca
A red-brick quadrangle on an artificial mound above the Bzura River, this is one of Casimir the Great's most important strongholds in central Poland. At Łęczyca Royal Castle King Władysław Jagiełło held war councils before the conflict wit…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Tum
The Collegiate Church in Tum (say "toom") – the Archcollegiate Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Alexius near Łęczyca – is one of Poland's finest Romanesque buildings. With two apses, four towers and thick stone walls, it rises from the fi…
Hidden gemGardens
Łódź
It all began in 1946 with a 1.3-hectare plot of medicinal plants in the city's tree nursery. Today the Jakub Mowszowicz Botanical Garden in Łódź covers 67 hectares, making it one of the largest botanical gardens in Poland, with a Japanese…
Hidden gemOld towns & squares
Łódź
This octagonal square at the northern end of Piotrkowska Street is the point from which Łódź numbers its buildings, and the place where the industrial city began. It was laid out in 1823 as the marketplace of a new cloth-makers' settlement…
Hidden gemLandscape parks
Stara Wieś
Here the River Warta swings in a great loop through the limestone hills of the Wieluń Upland, and along its banks springs pulse, pushing water out alternately from a rock crevice and from the bed of an oxbow lake. Załęcze Landscape Park, c…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Łódź
The domed church with four corner turrets on the corner of Plac Wolności (Liberty Square) and Piotrkowska Street was for more than half a century the church of Łódź's Lutherans — Holy Trinity Church. Since 1945 it has served Catholics as t…
Hidden gemPalaces
Łódź
Three female figures stand on top of the façade at 104 Piotrkowska Street: Liberty, Industry and Commerce. This is how Juliusz Heinzel, known as the "king of wool" and owner of the largest woollen goods factory in the Kingdom of Poland, pr…
Hidden gemMuseums
Łódź
The Museum of the City of Łódź (until 2009 the Museum of the History of the City of Łódź) occupies the palace of Izrael Poznański, one of Łódź's wealthiest textile magnates. The residence on ul. Ogrodowa, completed in 1903, is itself the s…
Hidden gemMuseums
Łódź
The Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź (say: WOODGE) is Europe's largest museum devoted to textiles, fashion and the textile industry. It occupies the White Factory, a grand 19th-century cotton mill built by industrialist Ludwik Geyer at 2…
Hidden gemLandscape parks
Łódź
Łódź is associated with factories and flat plains, yet just beyond its north-eastern edge the land suddenly rises into ravines, beech woods and river springs. Łódź Hills Landscape Park protects the most upland-like scenery in central Polan…
Hidden gemOld towns & squares
Łódź
The walls of the courtyard at 3 Piotrkowska Street are covered with a mosaic of hundreds of thousands of hand-cut pieces of mirror arranged in shapes that resemble rosebuds. Rose Passage (Pasaż Róży) is the work of artist Joanna Rajkowska,…
Hidden gemCastles
Uniejów
The Archbishops of Gniezno once kept their cathedral's treasury and archive in Uniejów — today hotel guests sleep within the same walls, warmed by geothermal water from beneath the town. Built in 1360–1365 on the Warta River, the castle is…
Hidden gemLakes
gmina Warta
In summer the water level at Jeziorsko can drop by as much as 5.5 metres, exposing wide muddy shallows in the southern part of the reservoir. For people that is a drawback; for birds it is a feeding ground. More than 250 species have been…
Museums
Łódź
The Factory Museum in Łódź tells the story of Izrael Poznański's textile empire on the very spot where it operated – in the former fabric printing works on the site of today's Manufaktura. Here you can see how cotton became yarn and yarn b…
Museums
Łódź
The Łódź Palm House is a tropical oasis in Źródliska Park, the city's oldest park: under its glass roof grow around 4,500 specimens of more than 1,100 species and varieties. The most precious are palms that remember the orangeries of Łódź'…
Historic sites
Łódź
The Old Cemetery in Łódź (Stary Cmentarz, pronounced "STAH-ry TSMEN-tash"; Łódź sounds roughly like "woodge") is the city's oldest surviving burial ground and one of the most striking monuments of its industrial past. On about 21 hectares,…
Thermal baths & water parks
Łódź
Aquapark Fala (say "FAH-lah", Polish for "wave") is the big water park of Łódź (pronounced roughly "Woodge"), one of Poland's largest cities, and the park is one of the busiest in the country, with a record 1.55 million visits in 2025. It…
Gardens
Rogów
The SGGW Arboretum in Rogów (pronounced roughly ROH-goov) is one of Poland's richest tree gardens, set in forest about 40 km east of Łódź in central Poland. Run by the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), it mixes serious plant scien…
Amusement parks
Łódź
Arena Laser Games in Łódź (say: WOODGE) is an indoor laser tag arena inside Manufaktura, the city's huge entertainment complex built in a restored 19th-century textile mill. Run by the Experymentarium science center, it swaps paintballs fo…