Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
National parks
gmina Dobiegniew
Drawa National Park (Drawieński Park Narodowy; "drah-VYEN-skee") protects the heart of the Drawa Forest in northwestern Poland: the wild valleys of the Drawa and Płociczna rivers, around twenty lakes and old beech woods. It is one of the q…
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…
Hidden gemNature
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…
Amusement parks
gmina Torzym
The wooden Wilkołak (Werewolf) roller coaster stands 22 m tall and reaches 71 km/h – a mirror-image copy of Heidi the Ride at Plopsaland De Panne in Belgium. Majaland Kownaty is a family theme park in western Poland's Lubuskie region, buil…
Other
gmina Żary
Construction of this tower began on 1 April 1914, the 99th anniversary of Otto von Bismarck's birth, and it was never finished. The Bismarck Tower in Żary (German Bismarckturm Sorau; Żary was the German town of Sorau until 1945) stands in…
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
Looking at the green surface from a jetty in Łagów, it is hard to believe that there are almost 59 metres of water below. Ciecz, also called Lake Trześniowskie, is the deepest lake in the Lubusz Lakeland and one of the deepest in Poland. I…
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…
Churches & monasteries
Gorzów Wielkopolski
At the top of the high altar in Gorzów cathedral, a whale swallows the prophet Jonah, a scene rarely found in Polish churches. It is just one detail of the oldest building in Gorzów Wielkopolski: a brick church from the late 13th century t…
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…
Churches & monasteries
Zielona Góra
The Co-Cathedral of St Hedwig of Silesia at ul. Mickiewicza 14 is the oldest surviving historic building in Zielona Góra. The brick Gothic hall church has survived fires, the Reformation and the collapse of its tower, and its present silho…
Churches & monasteries
Zielona Góra
Outside, a black-and-white grid of half-timbering; inside, three tiers of wooden galleries and a pulpit resting on a column shaped like a palm trunk. The Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa is the former Lutheran church "Garden of Christ" (Z…
Churches & monasteries
Żary
The Żary parish church, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is the oldest and most important church in Żary – a brick Gothic hall with a Romanesque core, a stepped west gable and the Baroque chapel of the town's lords, the Promnitz fa…
Churches & monasteries
Świebodzin
The slender brick tower by Chopin Park is the tallest landmark of Świebodzin's old town, even though the church is several centuries younger than the parish church. It was built at the turn of the 20th century as a Lutheran church, and Emp…
Churches & monasteries
Międzyrzecz
The parish church of St John the Baptist at ul. Spokojna 6 is the only surviving Gothic church building in Międzyrzecz and a hall church that served as a model for the parish churches in Wągrowiec and Wronki. Its biggest surprise lay under…
Churches & monasteries
Żagań
The neo-Gothic Church of the Holy Cross stands in the north-eastern part of the palace park in Żagań, right by a bend of the Bóbr river. Outside it catches the eye with a facade of fieldstone granite and dozens of colourful coats of arms;…
Churches & monasteries
Świebodzin
Look up inside the church and you will see a vault woven from white ribs that has long been compared to St Peter's fishing net. That is no accident: the church was originally dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. Today's parish church of St…
Churches & monasteries
Międzyrzecz
St Adalbert's Church on the market square in Międzyrzecz is one of the notable church designs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the most famous Prussian architect of the 19th century. The plain rendered building with a tall tower topped by a gil…
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…
Museums
Zielona Góra
The open-air museum in Ochla (pronounced roughly "OH-khlah"), officially the Ethnographic Museum in Zielona Góra, is a large skansen on the southern edge of the city: nearly 80 historic village buildings spread over about 13 hectares in th…
Museums
Żagań
On the night of 24–25 March 1944, 76 Allied airmen crawled through a tunnel more than a hundred metres long beneath the wire of Stalag Luft III in Żagań. The breakout went down in history as the Great Escape and inspired the 1963 Hollywood…
Museums
Zielona Góra
In the cellars of the Lubusz Land Museum you will find a witch-trial scene and an iron maiden, and a few rooms further on, a collection of winemaking tools from a town that has lived off its vineyards for centuries. This is Zielona Góra's…