311 attractions in Lower Silesia, including Weavers' Houses in Międzylesie, Chopin Manor in Duszniki-Zdrój and District of Four Denominations (District…
Landmarks
Międzylesie
On Sobieskiego street stand two houses that seem to belong to another age: tall, steep roofs, board-clad gables facing the street and arcades on wooden posts. They are the last of seven weavers' houses known locally as the "Seven Brothers"…
Historic sites
Duszniki-Zdrój
The Chopin Manor in Duszniki-Zdrój (say "DOOSH-nee-kee ZDROO-y"), formerly the Spa Theater, is an elegant white pavilion in the spa park of a small resort town in southwestern Poland. In summer 1826 a 16-year-old Frédéric Chopin gave a cha…
Landmarks
Wrocław
The District of Four Denominations in Wrocław (also called the District of Mutual Respect) is a small corner of the Old Town where a synagogue, an Orthodox cathedral, a Roman Catholic church and a Lutheran church all stand within about 300…
Waterfalls
Karpacz
Dziki Wodospad – the "Wild Waterfall" – looks like a work of nature, but it is in fact a stone debris dam on the Łomnica river, built between 1910 and 1915. Water pours over its crest in a broad curtain, and the name refers to the violent…
Fortifications
Karłów
On top of Ptak Hill (841 m), a ten-minute walk from the Road of a Hundred Bends, stand the remains of a Prussian guardhouse built in 1790. From its rocky platform, Szczeliniec Wielki and the village of Karłów look like a scale model. Fort…
Amusement parks
Polanica-Zdrój
Pirates, a jungle and a zip line on 7,500 m² — FunPark in Polanica-Zdrój is an outdoor playground with 14 attractions, where parents can relax over coffee on the terrace. The park was created near the centre of the spa town, on Kłodzka Str…
Amusement parks
Piechowice
A three-metre ant, a five-metre caterpillar and a butterfly that died out in the Sudetes in the 19th century — at GIGANTEI in Piechowice, insects have grown to giant size. This family theme park combines the legend of the Mountain Spirit w…
Nature
Kamienna Góra
Rock mushrooms, clubs, towers and pulpits – and some sandstone blocks look like stacks of pancakes piled up by a giant. The Głazy Krasnoludków ("Dwarfs' Rocks") nature reserve, also known as Gorzeszowskie Skałki, protects a 1,200-metre lin…
Viewpoints
Kudowa-Zdrój
Above the Spa Park in Kudowa-Zdrój rises a wooded ridge whose southern paths were already used by spa guests in the 18th century. Park Hill (Góra Parkowa, German Schlossberg, 477 m) hides the wooden Love Gazebo, a viewpoint over the town a…
Viewpoints
Nowa Ruda
St Anne's Hill rises within the town limits of Nowa Ruda, and on its summit stands a stone lookout tower from 1911, one of the first modernist towers in the Sudetes. A short way below is a Baroque pilgrimage church with a hermit's house an…
Viewpoints
Nowa Ruda
The round red-sandstone tower on All Saints' Hill carries a relief of a Prussian field marshal above its door, a reminder of the Moltke family, who helped pay for it in 1913. From its gallery, about 15 metres up, you can even see Śnieżka i…
Historic sites
Sobótka
The Będkowice Archaeological Reserve lies at the foot of Mount Ślęża, by the road from Strzegomiany to Będkowice in the Sobótka municipality. It protects an early medieval settlement complex of the Ślężanie tribe: a hillfort from the 8th–1…
Technical monuments
Wrocław
Wrocław Market Hall (Hala Targowa, say "HAH-lah tar-GOH-vah") is a working food market that has been trading since 1908 – and a landmark of early concrete engineering. Behind its red-brick facade, giant reinforced-concrete arches soar over…
Other
Nowy Zamek
Hubertówka (hoo-ber-TOOF-kah) in Nowy Zamek, near the town of Milicz in Lower Silesia, is a family-run restaurant serving game and freshwater fish, right beside the Milicz Fish Ponds in the Barycz Valley. Open since 1982, it is known for M…
Technical monuments
Piechowice
At the Julia glassworks in Piechowice, crystal is still made by hand: glassmakers blow and shape molten glass at the furnaces, and cutters decorate the finished pieces. Visitors walk through the production hall with a guide and watch the w…
Museums
Ząbkowice Śląskie
The oldest surviving house in Ząbkowice Śląskie, the so-called Kauffung Manor at 1 Krzywa Street, holds a regional museum with eighteen rooms of mementoes of former residents. The main draw, though, is in the cellars: Frankenstein's Labora…
Caves
Kletno
Bear Cave in Kletno (Polish: Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia, roughly "yahs-KEE-nyah nyed-ZHVYEH-dzyah") is the longest cave in the Sudetes and one of the most beautiful show caves in Poland. Hidden in the Śnieżnik Massif near the Czech border, it i…
Lakes
Leśna
Lake Złotnickie is a narrow reservoir, roughly eight kilometres long, on the Kwisa river, held back by a stone dam built a century ago. It lies in the Izera Foothills between Gryfów Śląski and Leśna, right next to a former mining town that…
Churches & monasteries
Wrocław
St. Mary Magdalene's Cathedral in Wrocław is a towering Gothic brick church just off the Market Square, and the Penitents' Bridge (also called the Witches' Bridge) slung between its two towers is one of the best viewpoints in the city. Fro…
Churches & monasteries
Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
The former Cistercian abbey in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki is one of the most important monastic complexes in Lower Silesia: a mighty Gothic church with a Baroque interior and the former abbots' palace, with Marianne of Orange's Neo-Gothic palace…
Mountains & peaks
Kłodzko
For decades Kłodzka Góra (757 m) was thought to be the highest peak of the Bardzkie Mountains, which earned it a place in the Crown of Polish Mountains, a popular list of the highest summit in each range, even though newer surveys showed t…
Churches & monasteries
Kłodzko
Legend says it all began with a vision. Young Arnošt of Pardubice, a pupil at the Knights Hospitaller school in Kłodzko, saw the statue of the Virgin on the altar come to life and turn her back on him. He took it as a warning, went on to b…
Other
Karpacz
The Kopa chairlift in Karpacz, known locally as "Zbyszek," is the easiest way to get from town up into the high Karkonosze, the Polish side of the Giant Mountains. In about eight minutes it lifts you to just below the summit of Kopa (1,377…
Other
Wrocław
Kolejkowo in Wrocław (roughly koh-ley-KOH-voh, from the Polish word for model railway) is one of Poland's largest model railway layouts: a miniature Wrocław and Lower Silesia built at 1:25 scale, with moving trains, cars and thousands of t…