Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
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…
Gardens
Sosnowiec
In the 1960s miners from the Kazimierz-Juliusz colliery, scouts and local residents of Kazimierz Górniczy gave up their free time to drain marshland here, shape the banks of the ponds and plant trees. The result was the Leśna sports and le…
Amusement parks
Chorzów
On the hardest route of the Silesia Rope Park, the obstacles hang as high as 10.5 m above the ground, and the course is considered one of the most demanding in Poland. The park lies within the Silesian Park in Chorzów, at ul. Dojazdowa 1 o…
Amusement parks
Podzamcze
Among the beech trees at the foot of the ruined Ogrodzieniec Castle, platforms, walkways and ropes are strung several metres – in places over ten metres – above the ground. AdrenaLinaPark in Podzamcze has been running since 2006 and is one…
Museums
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…
Amusement parks
Dziwnów
The Świnoujście lighthouse stands 6.48 m tall here, while the one from Jastarnia is shorter than an adult – at the Seaside Miniature and Railway Park in Dziwnów nearly 30 lighthouses of the Polish coast are reproduced at a scale of 1:10. B…
Amusement parks
Podzamcze
The Miniature Park in Podzamcze (Ogrodzieniec municipality) lies at the foot of the Ogrodzieniec Castle ruins and shows the entire Trail of the Eagles' Nests at a scale of 1:25 – from Kraków to Częstochowa. The models of the Jurassic castl…
Amusement parks
Ujazd
In a garden in Olszowa, Cologne Cathedral stands more than 6 metres tall – the highest of 18 models of churches built at a scale of 1:25. The miniature park in the commune of Ujazd (Strzelce Opolskie county) was, according to its owners, t…
Amusement parks
Kowary
The Lower Silesian Monuments Miniature Park in Kowary (ko-VAH-rih) is an open-air display of 1:25 scale models of the castles, palaces, churches and old towns of southwest Poland. In one stroll you can see Książ Castle, Vang Stave Church,…
Amusement parks
Hajnówka
In a single garden on ul. Bielska in Hajnówka, the Branicki Palace, the monastery on Lake Wigry, the mosque of Kruszyniany and the synagogue of Orla stand side by side — all at a scale of 1:25. The Podlasie Monuments Miniature Park is a qu…
Amusement parks
Zator
In Zator the Greek gods stand on water: figures of Zeus, Athena and Daedalus with Icarus are set on platforms in a pond, and the best way to see them is from the deck of a water tram. The Mythology Park is part of the Zatorland complex, wh…
Museums
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…
Amusement parks
Podzamcze
The whole Trail of the Eagles' Nests – the chain of castles from Kraków to Częstochowa – fitted into one garden at a scale of 1:25, complete with valleys, canyons and cliffs topped by castles. That is the signature part of Ogrodzieniec Par…
Amusement parks
Antonin
By the Górecznik pond, in the woods on the edge of the Barycz Valley, is a Family Adventure and Education Park where animal enclosures, nature trails and a summer play zone are all arranged around one pond. The complex at ul. Wrocławska 7…
Amusement parks
Zbrosławice
Camels, antelopes, ostriches and meerkats a few kilometres from Tarnowskie Góry: the Adventure and Attractions Park in Wilkowice (Zbrosławice municipality) combines a small zoo, large playgrounds and a place to relax by the ponds. It cover…
Landscape parks
Poznań
Every day at noon a narrow-gauge steam locomotive in Rataje Park puffs out clouds of smoke and sounds its whistle – though it never leaves. It is the party piece of the Środa County Railway open-air museum, set in the heart of Poznań's sec…
Amusement parks
Krajno-Zagórze
Sabat Krajno Amusement and Miniature Park is a year-round family attraction in the Holy Cross Mountains (Góry Świętokrzyskie) of central Poland, about 20 km (12 miles) east of Kielce. It combines a hillside walk past more than 60 miniature…
Amusement parks
Rogowo
Zaurolandia is a family amusement park on Lake Rogowskie in the Pałuki region, opened on 28 April 2007. Its main draw is a 2-kilometre walking route lined with almost 80 life-size dinosaurs, and the whole park covers about 20 ha. More than…
Amusement parks
Zator
The Argentinosaurus that Zatorland bills as the world's largest moving dinosaur is 35 metres long, according to the Małopolska tourist board. It is the star of the Moving Dinosaur Park in Zator – the oldest part of the Zatorland complex, o…
Gardens
Chorzów
Where trees grow today, in 1950 there were spoil heaps, illegal mine shafts and marshland. Silesian Park (Park Śląski) in Chorzów – until 2012 called the Jerzy Ziętek Provincial Park of Culture and Recreation – covers 535 hectares and is o…
Thermal baths & water parks
Hajnówka
After a day in the Białowieża Forest, especially in winter, warm water comes in handy. Hajnówka Water Park, opened in December 2009, is a municipal complex with a 25-metre sports pool, a leisure pool with a lazy river and wave machine, two…
Thermal baths & water parks
Kraków
The Kraków Water Park (Park Wodny, say "PARK VOD-nee") is the city's big indoor aquapark, open since 2000 in the Mistrzejowice district, about 2.5 km north of the Main Market Square. Under a striking timber roof you'll find pools, a lazy r…
Gardens
Lubin
A Tyrannosaurus among century-old oaks, white-tailed eagles and capercaillies in aviaries, and next to them a wild riverside forest that nobody touches with an axe. Wrocławski Park is the oldest and most valuable park in Lubin in Lower Sil…
Technical monuments
Gniezno
The Gniezno Roundhouse (Parowozownia Gniezno) is a historic steam locomotive depot next to the main railroad station in Gniezno, western Poland, and one of the largest surviving depot complexes in Europe. Two vast fan-shaped engine sheds,…