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Racibórz
The Upper Oder Festival is a three-day summer celebration of the Upper Oder Land – the western part of the Silesian Voivodeship – spread over dozens of places along the river and in nearby towns. In 2025 it drew 200,669 visitors, with a pr…
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Szczecin
The Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin is the city's most famous modern building – a cluster of white, ice-like peaks that glows in changing colors after dark. Designed by the Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga, it won the 2015…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
The fort's German name – Engelsburg, the Angel's Castle – is no accident. Its round, stepped brick tower reminded the builders of Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo, the papal fortress on the Tiber. Fort Angel was built in the mid-19th century as a…
Fortifications
Toruń
Fort IV in Toruń is the best-preserved and most visitor-friendly fort of the 19th-century Toruń Fortress — a Prussian stronghold of red-brick barracks, vaulted casemates and a dry moat that you can explore on your own by day or with a guid…
Fortifications
Nysa
Fort Prusy (Fort Prussia) in Nysa (say "NIH-sah") is the star attraction of the Nysa Fortress, a Prussian citadel laid out as a perfect five-pointed star in 1743-1745 on the hills above the Nysa Kłodzka river in southwest Poland. Seen from…
Fortifications
Poznań
Above the gate of Fort VII on Polska Street in Poznań hangs the sign "Konzentrationslager Posen". This is not a military attraction but a place of remembrance: in 1939–1944 the Germans ran a camp here that they themselves called the "camp…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
Fort Zachodni (West Fort) in Świnoujście is a 19th-century Prussian coastal battery at the mouth of the Świna River, now home to the Fortress History Museum. Ringed by a water-filled moat and overgrown with grass, it sits on the western ba…
Amusement parks
Łeba
Funlandia is an inflatable amusement park in Łeba at ul. Tysiąclecia 10 – almost 700 m² of bouncing, sliding and obstacle courses. Much of the fun takes place under cover, so the park comes in handy on family holidays by the Baltic when th…
Museums
Gliwice
Funzeum – Children's Imagination Centre fills 4,000 m² in the Europa Centralna shopping centre in Gliwice. Despite the name, nobody looks at anything through glass here – the motto translates as "You don't tour it. You do it." Children bui…
Museums
Międzyzdroje
The Wax Figures Museum in Międzyzdroje (pronounced roughly "myen-dzi-ZDROY-eh") is a popular indoor attraction in one of Poland's best-known Baltic Sea resorts, on the island of Wolin near the German border. Set on the promenade a few step…
Museums
Rogalin
On the east wall of the largest room, where an altar would stand in a church, hangs "The Maid of Orleans" – Jan Matejko's largest painting. That was the plan of Edward Aleksander Raczyński, who in 1910 gave his collection its own publicly…
Technical monuments
Katowice
The Szyb Wilson Gallery at 1 Oswobodzenia Street in Katowice's Janów-Nikiszowiec district occupies the former miners' assembly hall and bathhouse of the Wilson shafts of the Wieczorek coal mine. It has been open since 2001, and with nearly…
Museums
Sanok
The Zdzisław Beksiński Gallery in Sanok ("ZJEE-swaf bek-SHEEN-skee", "SAH-nok") holds the world's largest collection of work by the Polish painter famous for his haunting, dreamlike landscapes of ruins, skeletal figures and burning skies.…
Technical monuments
Wrocław
Wrocław Market Hall (Hala Targowa, say "HAH-lah tar-GOH-vah") is a working food market that has been trading since 1908 – and a landmark of early concrete engineering. Behind its red-brick facade, giant reinforced-concrete arches soar over…
Museums
Władysławowo
Hallerówka is a wooden villa from 1924 at ul. Morska 6 in Władysławowo, where General Józef Haller – commander of the Blue Army and hero of Poland's symbolic Wedding to the Sea in 1920 – spent his summer holidays. Since 2013 it has been a…
Museums
Gdańsk
Hevelianum (pronounced "heh-veh-LYAH-noom") is a hands-on science center in Gdańsk, set inside 19th-century fort buildings on Gradowa Hill (Góra Gradowa), just a short walk from the main train station. With interactive exhibitions on energ…
Technical monuments
Piechowice
At the Julia glassworks in Piechowice, crystal is still made by hand: glassmakers blow and shape molten glass at the furnaces, and cutters decorate the finished pieces. Visitors walk through the production hall with a guide and watch the w…
Museums
Rymanów
Glass frogs and lizards from Rymanów end up in galleries on several continents – around 80% of production at the Sabina Art Glassworks goes abroad, including to the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the Netherlands and Engl…
Museums
Ząbkowice Śląskie
The oldest surviving house in Ząbkowice Śląskie, the so-called Kauffung Manor at 1 Krzywa Street, holds a regional museum with eighteen rooms of mementoes of former residents. The main draw, though, is in the cellars: Frankenstein's Labora…
Museums
Siewierz
South of the parish church in Siewierz, at 5 Kościuszki Street, stands a neat manor house with a mansard roof and dormers – the Old Commune Building. Since 2005 it has housed the Chamber of Tradition and Old Culture, a small museum about t…
Nature
gmina Kroczyce
In 1942 the face of a German quarry cut the cave in two – its middle section was exposed and destroyed, and its two entrances became four. Even so, Głęboka Cave ("Deep Cave") in Góra Zborów near Podlesice is today the only cave in the nort…
Caves
Ojców
King Łokietek's Cave (Jaskinia Łokietka, roughly "yahs-KEEN-yah wo-KYET-kah") is the largest known cave in Ojców National Park, a small and beautiful protected area of limestone valleys about 25 km north of Kraków. A guided walk leads thro…
Caves
Kletno
Bear Cave in Kletno (Polish: Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia, roughly "yahs-KEE-nyah nyed-ZHVYEH-dzyah") is the longest cave in the Sudetes and one of the most beautiful show caves in Poland. Hidden in the Śnieżnik Massif near the Czech border, it i…
Caves
Wierzchowie
Wierzchowska Górna Cave (say "vyeh-HOV-skah GOOR-nah") in the village of Wierzchowie is Poland's longest show cave, about 15 km (9 miles) northwest of Kraków in the Kraków Valleys Landscape Park. A lit, guided route of about 700 m (2,300 f…