Things to do in Lower Silesian

Centennial Hall

Wrocław

60–120 min

The Centennial Hall (German: Jahrhunderthalle) is a Wrocław icon of modernism and one of the boldest works of 20th-century architecture. Built in 1911–1913 to a design by Max Berg, it stunned its contemporaries with a reinforced concrete d…

University of Wrocław

Wrocław

45–90 min

The main building of the University of Wrocław, known as the Leopoldina, is one of the most beautiful Baroque academic buildings in Europe. Emperor Leopold I founded the university in 1702 as a Jesuit college, and the grand edifice on the…

Karkonosze National Park

Karpacz

180–480 min

**Karkonosze National Park** protects the highest parts of the Giant Mountains on the Polish side of the border, including Śnieżka, glacial cirques, peat bogs and the subalpine zone. The park was established in **1959** and, together with…

Main Sudeten Trail

Świeradów-Zdrój

9000–20000 min · Free entry

The Mieczysław Orłowicz Main Sudeten Trail is a long-distance hiking route marked in red, running from Świeradów-Zdrój to Prudnik. It is approximately 430–440 km long, depending on the measurement used, and links the main ranges of the Sud…

Králický Sněžník

gmina Stronie Śląskie

**1,425 m above sea level** — Králický Sněžník, the highest peak of the Śnieżnik Massif and of the whole Eastern Sudetes, sits squarely on the Polish–Czech border. Since **26 September 2022** a new steel viewing tower crowns the summit, bu…

Wrocław Archcathedral

Wrocław

**The Archcathedral of St John the Baptist in Wrocław** is one of the key landmarks of Cathedral Island and one of the city’s most distinctive Gothic buildings. The present church was built in the 13th and 14th centuries on the site of ear…

Stolowe Mountains National Park

Karłów

**The only table mountains in Poland** and among the few in Europe: a sandstone plateau with flat summits and rock labyrinths, protected as a national park since **16 September 1993** — one of 23 in the country. The highest points are **Sz…

Czocha Castle

Stankowice

120–180 min

Czocha Castle above the Leśniańskie Lake is history written in layers. The stronghold on gneiss rocks above the Kwisa river was built in **1241–1247** as a border fortress on the Silesian-Lusatian march; a document from **1329** already na…

Wrocław Market Square

Wrocław

Wrocław Market Square is one of the largest medieval squares in Europe: **204 by 170 metres**, **3.64 ha** of buildings around a central block with the Gothic Town Hall. The city was founded around **1232** by Henry the Bearded, and the fi…

Cathedral of St Stanislaus and St Wenceslaus in Świdnica

Świdnica

**The Cathedral of St Stanislaus and St Wenceslaus in Świdnica** is a Gothic church on St John Paul II Square and one of the city’s most important landmarks. Its tower is 101.21 metres high, among the tallest church towers in Silesia. The…

Garrison Church in Wrocław

Wrocław

**The Garrison Church in Wrocław**, the Minor Basilica of St Elizabeth, dominates the western side of the Market Square. For centuries the Gothic church served the city’s patricians; today it belongs to a military-civil parish. Its main vi…

Grodziec Castle

Grodziec

Grodziec Castle stands on an isolated basalt hill, **389 m above sea level**, and for nearly 900 years it has dominated the Kaczawskie Foothills. The first written record comes from a papal bull of Hadrian IV dated **23 April 1155**, and b…

Church of Peace in Jawor

Jawor

**The Church of Peace in Jawor** is one of the two surviving Churches of Peace in Silesia and part of the UNESCO entry covering Jawor and Świdnica. The timber church was built in 1654–1655 to a design by Albrecht von Säbisch. Its restraine…

Skull Chapel in Czermna

Kudowa-Zdrój

The **Skull Chapel in Czermna**, a district of Kudowa-Zdrój, is a Baroque ossuary and a place of remembrance for people who died in wars and epidemics. Thousands of human skulls and bones cover the chapel’s interior, while many more remain…

Bolków Castle

Bolków

Bolków Castle is one of the largest Piast strongholds in Lower Silesia. Its ruins cover **7,600 square metres** of Castle Hill (396 m above sea level), dropping away to the west in a 90-metre cliff above the Nysa Szalona river. From the wa…

Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój

Duszniki-Zdrój

The Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój operates in the only surviving paper mill of Lower Silesia, built before **1562** on the Bystrzyca Dusznicka river. Since **1968**, visitors have come for the exhibitions and the demonstration pa…

Fort Srebrna Góra

Srebrna Góra

On two summits of the Owl Mountains above the Silver Pass stands the largest mountain fortress in Poland and the best-preserved fortification of its kind in the country. Prussia built it between **1765 and 1777** on the orders of Frederick…

Grodno Castle

Zagórze Śląskie

Grodno Castle crowns the summit of Choina (**450 m**), above the Bystrzyca valley in the Wałbrzych Mountains. The Gothic stronghold was most likely raised by Duke Bolko I of Świdnica and Jawor, though its oldest walls are linked to the rei…

Barycz Valley

Ruda Sułowska

## A land of ponds and wetlands The Barycz Valley is a broad nature region along the Barycz River, stretching across Lower Silesia and southern Greater Poland. Its best-known part is the Milicz Ponds, one of Poland’s most valuable wetland…

Kłodzko Fortress

Kłodzko

120–180 min

Kłodzko Fortress occupies the hill above the town and combines an open-air route with an underground defensive system. Comfortable shoes matter here as much as an interest in history: expect cobbles, stairs, narrow passages and a constant…

Błędne Skały

Kudowa-Zdrój

Błędne Skały, or the Errant Rocks, are a rock labyrinth in Table Mountains National Park at about 853 m above sea level. A short, ticketed route winds between sandstone blocks, narrow cracks, passages and viewpoints. ## What the route is l…