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Nysa
The prince-bishops of Wrocław ruled not only a diocese from Nysa but an entire duchy – and they wanted to live like cardinals in Rome. The result is the three-storey, four-winged Bishops' Palace at ul. Biskupa Jarosława 11, counted among t…
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Sopot
The State Art Gallery in Sopot (Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, PGS) is one of the leading contemporary art venues in northern Poland, housed in the Spa House on Spa Square – just steps from the entrance to the famous Sopot pier. Its roughly 1,2…
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Babice
At the foot of the hill with the ruins of Lipowiec Castle stands a village that nobody built in one place. Cottages, granaries, a smithy, a mill and a wooden church were brought here from villages and small towns of western Lesser Poland t…
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Konin
The Mikroskala Model Park in Konin is a hall full of miniature worlds: from Columbus's caravels and the sinking Titanic to the Moon landing, dinosaurs and Star Wars. Open since May 2013, it displays more than 50 models, some of which visit…
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Ozimek
The visit begins in a "space dock hangar": a shuttle takes 50 passengers at a time, launches every 15 minutes and carries them 66 million years back, to the moment when life on Earth was almost wiped out. The Science and Human Evolution Pa…
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Wrocław
The Four Domes Pavilion in Wrocław is a modernist exhibition hall by German architect Hans Poelzig that now houses the Museum of Contemporary Art, a branch of the National Museum in Wrocław. Standing next to the UNESCO-listed Centennial Ha…
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Lublin
On the vaulted ceiling of a cellar beneath the red house at Rynek 8 in Lublin stands a naked Fortune on a globe, holding a cloth whipped by the wind. Around her play out scenes about marriage, folly and love, copied from a fashionable Germ…
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Toruń
The Toruń Planetarium (officially the Center for Space Popularization "Planetarium – Toruń") is one of the most visited things to do in Toruń, the city where Nicolaus Copernicus was born. It drew more than 290,000 visitors in 2022. Shows r…
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Kraków
The Rynek Underground (Podziemia Rynku, "pod-ZHEM-ya RIH-neh-koo") in Kraków is a museum hidden beneath the city's Main Market Square, one of the largest medieval squares in Europe. Below the cobbles around the Cloth Hall, archaeologists u…
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Szczecin
Szczecin's Underground Routes take you into a World War II air-raid shelter hidden beneath the city's main railway station, Szczecin Główny. It is one of the largest civilian shelters in Poland, and in about an hour you can follow three se…
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Olkusz
A few metres below the paving of Olkusz Market Square lie the cellars of a town hall that has not stood above ground for two hundred years. Underground Olkusz (Podziemny Olkusz) is a pair of underground exhibitions – one beneath the remain…
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Kraków
The Polonia Wax Museum at ul. Floriańska 32, on the route between the Main Market Square and St Florian's Gate, displays wax figures of politicians, clergy, athletes, actors and fictional characters. It has earned an unusual reputation: ma…
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Łańcut
The Stables and Coach House at Łańcut Castle (say "WAHN-tsoot") hold one of Europe's most remarkable collections of horse-drawn carriages – and, unusually, it is still displayed in the very buildings where the Potocki family kept it. A sho…
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Bielsk Podlaski
The yellow town hall in the middle of the square in Bielsk Podlaski looks modest, but it has nearly 250 years and many lives behind it: it has been a court, a guardhouse, shops, offices and a library. Instead of the usual weather vane, a t…
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Poznań
Ulica ks. Posadzego on Poznań's Ostrów Tumski runs along the crest of a stronghold rampart from the time of Mieszko I, Poland's first historical ruler: its structure begins about a metre below the cobbles and reaches almost six metres down…
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Częstochowa
Beside a viaduct on Aleja Pokoju in the Raków district lie people buried about 2,700 years ago – exactly where they were laid to rest. The Lusatian Culture Archaeological Reserve is a pavilion built directly over part of an ancient cemeter…
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Poznań
The Croissant Museum in Poznań (Rogalowe Muzeum Poznania, roughly "ro-GAH-lo-veh moo-ZEH-oom") is a lively, hands-on show rather than a museum of display cases. Right on the Old Market Square, costumed hosts teach you how Poznań's famous S…
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Częstochowa
In 1661 King John Casimir received Cossack envoys in this hall, and the next day the ambassadors of the Tsar – for a few days a monastery room became the throne room of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Knights' Hall on the first flo…
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Barczewo
"We shall not abandon the land we come from" – the music for these words by Maria Konopnicka, the patriotic hymn "Rota", was written by a boy from Barczewo. Feliks Nowowiejski was born here on 7 February 1877, when the town was called Wart…
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Sieradz
In one of the homesteads here you can see wooden devils, human figures and village scenes carved from a single piece of wood by Szczepan Mucha (1908–1982), a folk sculptor from the village of Szale. His homestead is one of the highlights o…
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Nowogród
The Kurpie Open-Air Museum in Nowogród (NO-vo-groot) is one of the two oldest open-air museums in Poland, founded in 1927. About 25 large wooden buildings and dozens of smaller structures stand on a high bank above the Narew River, and tog…
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Pobiedziska
The Piast Trail Miniature Park in Pobiedziska (say "poh-byeh-JEE-skah") lets you walk past Greater Poland's greatest landmarks in under an hour. Its 37 outdoor models at 1:20 scale range from Gniezno Cathedral and Poznań's Old Market Squar…
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Przeworsk
You can spend the night in the manor house from Krzeczowice and have lunch in the former home and smithy of the Sowiński family. Pastewnik in Przeworsk is called a "living open-air museum" because its wooden houses, saved from demolition,…
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Tomaszów Mazowiecki
In January 1945 a German armoured artillery tractor tried to cross the frozen Pilica River on the ice and sank. It was only recovered in 1999, 54 years later, then restored and got running again. "Lufcik" is now the star exhibit of the Pil…