Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
68 places
Gniezno
**Gniezno Cathedral** on Lech Hill is one of the most important sites in Polish history and Christianity. The cathedral has been associated with the cult of St Adalbert for almost a thousand years, and its walls recall the Congress of Gnie…
Poznań
Porta Posnania ICHOT is a heritage interpretation centre rather than a museum with a traditional collection. Its multimedia exhibition explores more than a thousand years of Ostrów Tumski — the island central to Poznań's beginnings and the…
**The Innkeeper of Waliszewo** is a stop on the County of Gniezno Myths and Legends Trail, commemorating the story of the former Red Inn. Before 1840, an inn called Waliszewek is said to have stood at a crossroads near Waliszewo. Today the…
Sławno
**St Rosalia Chapel in Sławno** is a wooden cemetery chapel built on a former cone-shaped earthwork, on the eastern edge of the village in Kiszkowo commune. It was completed in **1785** and is one of the most interesting examples of wooden…
Poznań
**Poznań Cathedral** on Cathedral Island is Poland’s oldest cathedral and a place connected with the beginnings of the Polish state. The first Polish bishopric was established here in 968, and the island became a centre of power for the ea…
Poznań
The Imperial Castle in Poznań is one of the youngest castles in Europe — and its story is full of paradoxes. Built in **1905–1910** for **Wilhelm II**, the last German emperor, to a design by **Franz Schwechten** shaped by the Kaiser's own…
Poznań
**Poznań Fara**, the collegiate church and basilica on Gołębia Street, is one of Poland’s most important Baroque monuments. Its full dedication is to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Mary Magdalene and St Stanislaus. A few steps from the Old…
gmina Łubowo
Ostrów Lednicki, the largest of the five islands on Lake Lednica, is one of the most important places in Polish history — the probable site of the Baptism of Poland. Under Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave it was a principal defensive and a…
gmina Łubowo
Lake Lednica in the Gniezno Lakeland is one of the most important places on the map of Poland's beginnings: on the largest of its five islands, **Ostrów Lednicki**, survive the remains of the oldest stone palace-and-church architecture in…
gmina Łubowo
Lednica Landscape Park combines nature with one of Poland’s most important stories about the beginnings of statehood. Around Lake Lednica, island, shore, fields and former crossings create the setting for the heritage of the first Piasts.…
Poznań
A square with sides of **141 m**, laid out around 1253 — the third largest market square in Poland, after Kraków and Wrocław. At its centre stands the Renaissance town hall, and on its little tower **the billy goats emerge every day at 12:…
Rydzyna
Rydzyna Castle is a Baroque residence of the Leszczyński and Sułkowski families, built on the walls of a Gothic castle from the early 15th century. Together with its moat, park, outbuildings and the town’s historic layout, it forms one of…
Gniezno
The Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno presents the beginnings of Polish statehood through people, objects and everyday life rather than a single date in a textbook. Its main exhibition covers the period from the early 10…
Poznań
Citadel Park in Poznań is a large urban park on the hill of the former Winiary Fort, covering about 100 hectares. It brings together the history of the 19th-century Poznań Fortress, memorial sites, museums, public art and everyday recreati…
gmina Łubowo
The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica explores the beginnings of the Polish state and the world of the early Piast dynasty. Its highlight is the archaeological site of the early medieval stronghold on Ostrów Lednicki island, reached by…
gmina Przygodzice
Palace in Antonin in gmina Przygodzice is a historic residence whose architecture and surroundings recall the former owners of the region. Look for the building’s details and its park or courtyard where access is available. It is an appeal…
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…
Trzemeszno
The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Trzemeszno is a late-Baroque gem on the Piast Trail. It is a former monastery church linked with the Canons Regular brought to Trzemeszno by Duke Bolesław the Wrymouth. The churc…
Poznań
Katedralna Lock, also known as Dom Schleuse, is a historic part of the 19th-century Poznań Fortress on the Cybina River. The building stands beside Cathedral Island, and a glass footbridge connects it with the Porta Posnania heritage centr…
Waliszewo
Brama Ryba, also called the Gate of the Third Millennium, is a steel fish-shaped structure on the Lednica Fields beside Lake Lednica. It is the symbolic centre of the Lednica 2000 youth meetings and one of the most recognisable landmarks o…
Poznań
The Enigma Cipher Centre at 78 Święty Marcin Street tells the Poznań story behind the breaking of the Enigma cipher. Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki studied cryptology here. The multimedia exhibitio…
Ruda Sułowska
**The wooden Church of Saints Fabian and Sebastian in Krotoszyn**, also known as St Roch’s Church, is one of the town’s oldest and most distinctive monuments. Built around 1572 as a hospital church, its Greek-cross plan and central dome se…
gmina Przygodzice
## Key information The wooden town hall of Sulmierzyce stands in the middle of Rynek 1, in a town in southern Greater Poland. Built in 1743, it is the only surviving example in Poland of a wooden small-town town hall. The building houses t…
gmina Warta
## Maria Dąbrowska’s home in Russów The Maria Dąbrowska Manor in Russów near Kalisz belongs to the literary branch of the District Museum of the Kalisz Region. Maria Dąbrowska was born here in 1889 and spent her childhood and youth. Her fa…