Things to do in Kuyavia-Pomerania
99 attractions in Kuyavia-Pomerania, including Golub Castle, Lake Chełmża and Co-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Chełmża.
All attractions (99)
Hidden gemCastles
Golub Castle
Golub-Dobrzyń
In 1977 the courtyard of Golub Castle hosted a knights' tournament — one of the first historical re-enactments in Poland. For 2026 the castle announced its 50th Grand International Knights' Tournament. The fortress itself is more than six…
Hidden gemLakes
Lake Chełmża
Chełmża
The lake gave the town its name: in 1251 the settlement on its shore was called Culmsee in German, meaning "Chełmno Lake". Lake Chełmża, the largest in Toruń County, reaches as a narrow channel right into the centre of Chełmża, with a Goth…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Co-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Chełmża
Chełmża
King John III Sobieski brought back the saddle cloth of Kara Mustafa's horse from the Battle of Vienna and gave it to this church, where, turned into a liturgical cope, it survives to this day. The Co-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Chełm…
Hidden gemMuseums
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja
Wenecja
The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja (say "veh-NETS-yah") is an open-air collection of 600 mm gauge locomotives and rolling stock in the Pałuki lake district of central Poland, described by its operator as one of the largest of its k…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
St Procopius Rotunda, Strzelno
Strzelno
A round nave of granite blocks, a square chancel and a horseshoe-shaped tower: St Procopius Rotunda in Strzelno is the largest Romanesque church in Poland built on a circular plan. It survived being turned into a convent gatehouse, desecra…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Holy Trinity Basilica, Strzelno
Strzelno
For more than two hundred years nobody knew that the Baroque pillars of the basilica in Strzelno concealed Romanesque columns covered in carvings. They were discovered only in 1946 by Professor Zdzisław Kępiński — and turned out to be one…
60–90 min
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Collegiate Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Kruszwica
Kruszwica
On the eastern shore of Lake Gopło stands a church that may have been a cathedral in the 12th century — before the bishops moved their seat to Włocławek. The Collegiate Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Kruszwica, built in 1120–1140, is o…
Hidden gemViewpoints
Mouse Tower in Kruszwica
Kruszwica
According to the chroniclers, the cruel Prince Popiel was eaten by mice in a tower above Lake Gopło – except that today's Mouse Tower was built almost four hundred years after the legend supposedly took place. It is an octagonal brick towe…
Churches & monasteries
Benedictine Abbey in Mogilno
Mogilno
In the crypt of St John's Church, four bays of vaulting rest on a single stone pillar known as "the abbot" – the oldest Romanesque groin vault of its kind in Poland. The former Benedictine Abbey in Mogilno has stood on a hill above Lake Mo…
Landmarks
Grudziądz Granaries
Grudziądz
From the Vistula, the granaries of Grudziądz look like a brick defensive wall: several storeys high, with small windows and massive buttresses. From the town side the very same buildings have only one or two floors – because they stand on…
Monuments & mounds
"Man Crossing the River" (Tightrope Walker), Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz
Above the Brda river, by the Jerzy Sulima-Kamiński Bridge, a young man holding a balancing pole has been walking a rope for over twenty years without ever falling. "Przechodzący przez rzekę" ("Man Crossing the River"), known locally as the…
Free entry
Nature
Drwęca Marsh Valley
Brodnica
Above Brodnica the Drwęca river makes a wide bend, and every spring its flat, marshy valley floor floods. During migration up to 20,000 waterbirds stop here, including up to 7,000 greater white-fronted geese. The easiest way to look into t…
30–60 min Free entry
Nature
Barbarka Forest and Memorial, Toruń
Toruń
Barbarka is a forest recreation area on the northwestern edge of Toruń and one of the most important World War II memorial sites in northern Poland. About 7 km from the Old Town, the woods hold a half-timbered chapel of St. Barbara, a fore…
Landmarks
Town Hall Tower (Baszta) in Żnin
Żnin
In the middle of Plac Wolności in Żnin stands a massive Gothic tower that everyone calls the Baszta, or bastion – although it was never part of the town walls. It is the only surviving piece of the medieval town hall, built so that the tow…
Churches & monasteries
Basilica of the Holy Name of Mary in Inowrocław
Inowrocław
Locals in Inowrocław still call this church "the Ruin", even though it has had a roof again for more than a century and serves as a parish church. Built of granite blocks between 1180 and 1230, it is the oldest church in the town and one o…
20–40 min
Churches & monasteries
Basilica of St. Vincent de Paul, Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz
The Basilica of St. Vincent de Paul in Bydgoszcz is a monumental neoclassical rotunda modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, standing on Ossolińskich Avenue just north of the city center. Vincentian priests began building it in 1924 as a votive…
Churches & monasteries
Basilica of the Assumption in Koronowo
Koronowo
At 72 metres long, the brick basilica above the Brda river has shaped Koronowo's skyline for more than seven centuries. It was raised by Cistercian monks who moved their abbey here from nearby Byszewo at the end of the 13th century, and it…
Museums
Biskupin Archaeological Museum
Biskupin
The Archaeological Museum in Biskupin (say "bis-KOO-peen") is Poland's most famous archaeological open-air museum: a life-size reconstruction of a fortified lakeside settlement built around 2,700 years ago, alongside an early medieval vill…
Other
Philadelphia Boulevard in Toruń
Toruń
Philadelphia Boulevard (Bulwar Filadelfijski) is roughly 2 km of Vistula riverfront at the foot of Toruń's Old Town: Gothic walls, gates and granaries on one side, the broad river on the other. This is the best place to take in the panoram…
Free entry
Other
Brda River Boulevards
Bydgoszcz
The Brda River Boulevards (Bulwary nad Brdą) in Bydgoszcz are a riverside promenade of about 5 km (3 miles) running through the heart of the city. Along the way you pass half-timbered granaries, Mill Island, the Opera Nova and the famous s…
Free entry
Other
Bydgoszcz Water Tram
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz looks its best from the Brda river, and the easiest way to see it from there is aboard Słonecznik, the electric boat of the Bydgoszcz Water Tram. Cruises leave from Rybi Rynek (Fish Market Square) in the Old Town and take about a…
Fortifications
Grudziądz Citadel
Grudziądz
On the highest point of the Vistula escarpment, 60 metres above the river, the Prussians built a fortress that Napoleon's army never managed to take. Grudziądz Citadel is the heart of the Grudziądz Fortress – a ring of forts around the tow…
Historic sites
Valley of Death Memorial (Bydgoszcz-Fordon)
Bydgoszcz
The Valley of Death (Dolina Śmierci) in the Fordon district of Bydgoszcz is a wooded ravine where, in the autumn of 1939, German units shot an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 Poles and Jews from the city and its surroundings. Today it is one of t…
Free entry
Museums
Nicolaus Copernicus House in Toruń
Toruń
The Nicolaus Copernicus House in Toruń (say "TOR-oon-y") is a museum set inside two late-Gothic merchant houses on Kopernika Street, a short walk from the Old Town Market Square. Local tradition links the address with the birth of the astr…