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Churches & monasteries
Olesno
The pine trunk behind glass by the high altar bears a plaque dated "July 1444": under this tree, legend says, a girl was saved from robbers through the intercession of St Anne. A wooden church grew up around the pine, and in the 17th centu…
Churches & monasteries
Pietrowice Wielkie
On the edge of Pietrowice Wielkie, on the road to Gródczanki, a small wooden church of the Holy Cross sits at the bottom of a ravine. It has drawn pilgrims for more than three centuries, and right beside it a spring rises in a Gothic Reviv…
Churches & monasteries
Praszka
In Wierzbie, a village in the Praszka municipality on national road 45 between Wieluń and Opole, stands a wooden church whose log structure is dated to around 1522. It is a late Gothic church of the Wieluń type – a reminder that this north…
Churches & monasteries
Pawłowiczki
In the fields outside Gościęcin, next to a spring long believed to cure eye ailments, stands the wooden pilgrimage church of St Brice, built in 1661. Locals simply call the area with the church, the former hermitage and the chapels Bryksy.…
Churches & monasteries
Prostki
In 1656, Tatar troops returning with their plunder from the battle of Prostki burned Ostrykół to the ground, together with its church and library, and carried off 1,326 people from the parish into captivity. The village was rebuilt, and a…
Churches & monasteries
Wilamowice
On a cemetery hill in Stara Wieś near Wilamowice stands a wooden church whose construction date, 1522, has been confirmed by tree-ring dating. Shingled roofs, covered walkways around the walls and late Gothic portals with "donkey-back" arc…
Churches & monasteries
Ustroń
On the northern edge of Ustroń, in the Nierodzim district, a dark, shingle-clad church dedicated to St Anne stands among old trees and gravestones. In summer it is easy to miss, yet it is the oldest church in Ustroń. The present building i…
Churches & monasteries
Wadowice
The parish of Barwałd is one of the oldest in the Archdiocese of Kraków – first recorded in 1326, it celebrates its 700th anniversary in 2026. Its wooden Church of St Erasmus, consecrated in 1782, has an unusual layout: the tower stands on…
Churches & monasteries
Baborów
The weathervane on the turret is cut with the date "1700" – the year building began. The wooden cemetery church of St Joseph in Baborów (listed in some heritage registers as the church of St Joseph and St Barbara) was built in 1700–1702 on…
Churches & monasteries
Kicin
From 1564 to 1574 the titular parish priest of Kicin was Jan Kochanowski, Poland's great Renaissance poet, then a canon of Poznań. Today's wooden church was built two centuries later, in 1749–1751, on a medieval hillfort just beyond Poznań…
Churches & monasteries
Jodłownik
In the centre of Wilkowisko, the largest village in the Jodłownik district, beside the Owsianka stream, stands the wooden Church of St Catherine of Alexandria – the third church on this site. Its predecessor was destroyed by a great fire o…
Churches & monasteries
Wojnicz
A few minutes from the A4 motorway exit, on St Leonard Street in Wojnicz, stands a small wooden church with a shingled roof and a little bell turret. For centuries it was a hospital church that cared for the poor, and its altar holds paint…
Churches & monasteries
Długa Goślina
St Mary Magdalene's Church in Długa Goślina is a wooden church from the early 17th century on the northern edge of the Zielonka Forest, in the municipality of Murowana Goślina. It belongs to the trail of wooden churches around the Zielonka…
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Uzarzewo
In 2001, while the tower of Uzarzewo church was being repaired, workers found a sealed bottle inside the copper ball beneath the cross: a letter to future generations, written on 12 August 1868 by the village schoolteacher. That is not thi…
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Gąsawa
St. Nicholas Church in Gąsawa (pronounced "gon-SAH-vah") is a 17th-century wooden church in the Pałuki region of north-central Poland that hides one of the country's most surprising interiors. Behind its plain dark timber walls, the ceilin…
Churches & monasteries
Wierzenica
St. Nicholas Church in Wierzenica (say "vyeh-zheh-NEE-tsah") is the oldest church on the Trail of Wooden Churches around Zielonka Forest, a short drive from Poznań in western Poland. This log-built village church, with a shingled roof and…
Churches & monasteries
Wieliczka
St. Sebastian's Church in Wieliczka (say "vyeh-LEECH-kah") is a 16th-century larchwood church hidden among old trees on Babina hill, on the southeastern edge of the town famous for its salt mine. Plain on the outside, it surprises inside w…
Churches & monasteries
Świniary
The Peter's Pence register of 1326 contains the entry "Nicolaus, plebanus ecclesie de Swiniar" – the oldest written mention of the parish of Świniary. Today's wooden Church of St Stanislaus the Bishop stands in this village in the Ponidzie…
Churches & monasteries
Modlnica
In 1553 the nobleman Jakub Śladkowski of Zabierzów built a new wooden church in Modlnica, and in return received the annual tithes, the crops from the parish fields and – according to the parish chronicle – the right to use the parish prie…
Landmarks
Narew
Three villages in the Narew valley – Trześcianka, Soce and Puchły – lie just a few kilometres apart and together form the Land of Open Shutters (Kraina Otwartych Okiennic), a cultural trail of wooden architecture with carved window frames,…
Old towns & squares
Zakopane
Krupówki is the backbone of Zakopane: more than a kilometre of pedestrian street climbing steadily uphill from the junction with Nowotarska and Kościeliska streets to ul. Zamoyskiego and al. 3 Maja. Cars – and even bicycles – are banned. I…
Viewpoints
Wisła
On the slope of Kobyla, a few metres from a hiking trail, the hillside suddenly drops away and a rocky pulpit rises up with jagged, partly overhanging walls. Krzakoska Rock – also known as the Kobyla Rocks – is the best-known climbing crag…
Landmarks
Sopot
The Crooked House in Sopot (Krzywy Domek, say "KSHIH-vih DOH-mek") is a building that looks as if it is melting: wavy walls, warped windows and a roof like a fairy-tale hat. It stands on Sopot's famous pedestrian street, Bohaterów Monte Ca…
Monuments & mounds
Chałupki
On Zabełkowska Street in Rudyszwałd, set against the wall of a roadside building, stands a short, stocky sandstone cross. It bears no name and no date, yet it is one of the oldest monuments in the village: a stone trace of medieval law, un…