Tripto Guide
16 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.

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…

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…

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**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…

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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:…

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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…

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…

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…

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Lake Malta is an artificial reservoir in the Cybina valley and one of Poznań’s best-known recreation areas. Created in 1952 by damming the river, it covers about 64 hectares and has a 2,190-metre regatta course. Sport, walking routes, a na…

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**St James the Apostle Church in Murowana Goślina** stands beside the market square and is one of the town’s most important monuments. Its medieval roots are visible in the Gothic nave, while the present appearance also reflects a Baroque…

Poznań
On the edge of Luboń near Poznań, at **2 Niezłomnych Street**, stands the Martyrology Museum in Żabikowo, commemorating the victims of the German camp that operated in **1943–1945** on the site of a former brickyard. Its official name was…
Poznań
The main Gallery of Painting and Sculpture of the National Museum in Poznań is located at 9 Marcinkowskiego Avenue, in an eclectic building completed in 1904 and a newer wing. It is a place to see a broad sweep of art from the Middle Ages…

Poznań
The Botanical Garden of Adam Mickiewicz University occupies the Ogrody district of Poznań at Dąbrowskiego Street 165. Its seed was the School Botanical Garden of **1922–1925**, initiated by Professor Rudolf Boettner; it was solemnly opened…

Poznań
Under a shelter on the cathedral island of Ostrów Tumski in Poznań, right beside the cathedral, you can see the original cross-section of a **10th-century stronghold rampart** built in the times of Mieszko I. This is the Genius Loci Archae…
Poznań
Termy Maltańskie stands beside Lake Malta and combines three different experiences in one complex: sports swimming, a water park and an extensive sauna area. The facility uses natural geothermal water drawn from a depth of 1,306 metres to…

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On Przemysł Hill, just behind Poznań’s Old Market square, stands the oldest surviving royal residence in Poland. The Royal Castle was built in the **13th century** as a residential tower for Przemysł I; it was expanded by his son **Przemys…