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Lakes
Charzykowy
Lake Charzykowskie covers more than 13 km², is over 30 metres deep, and its north-eastern shore touches the boundary of Bory Tucholskie National Park. This is where Polish inland sailing began: in 1922 the Chojnice Sailing Club was founded…
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Łagów
Looking at the green surface from a jetty in Łagów, it is hard to believe that there are almost 59 metres of water below. Ciecz, also called Lake Trześniowskie, is the deepest lake in the Lubusz Lakeland and one of the deepest in Poland. I…
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Czchów
Beyond Czchów the Dunajec widens into a long, narrow lake between steep wooded slopes. On a rock above the water stands the rebuilt Tropsztyn Castle, and at the end of the lake the concrete Czchów Dam, with a power station hidden in its bo…
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Mrągowo
Lake Czos is a narrow, deep ribbon lake that lies entirely within the town limits of Mrągowo – together with the Four Winds Peninsula. From the market square you reach the shore in a few minutes, and a promenade leads on to the beaches, th…
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Sulęczyno
Lake Długie near Węsiory in Kashubia is a quiet, forest-fringed lake in itself, but on its northern shore lies something exceptional: a burial ground of the Goths and Gepids with stone circles and barrows nearly two thousand years old. It…
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Lubartów
Firlej is an oval lake with no inflowing rivers, circled by a lit footpath and cycle track, with a sandy beach and a dozen or so holiday centres. It lies 12 km north-west of Lubartów, next to national road 19, and has long been one of the…
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Smołdzino
Lake Gardno is a large, shallow coastal lagoon in Słowiński National Park on Poland's Baltic coast, separated from the sea by a narrow sandbar where the village of Rowy sits. Reedbeds, wet meadows and the forested hill of Rowokół frame the…
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Susz
Lake Gaudy covers 152 hectares, yet it is nowhere deeper than 2 metres, and its bed is covered by sediment several metres thick. Vast, dangerous marshes surround it, protected as a nature reserve since 1957. This is not a place for swimmin…
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Topólka
Lake Głuszyńskie is almost ten kilometres long and 36.5 metres deep at its deepest point, deeper than the nearby and much better known Lake Gopło. It lies in the Kuyavian Lake District near Radziejów, and its shores are shared by three mun…
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Gołuchów
Gołuchów Lake, also called the reservoir, is a dam reservoir on the Trzemna river, surrounded by forest in the south of Greater Poland. It was built in 1969–1971 on land belonging to the villages of Gołuchów and Czerminek, about 15 km nort…
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Kruszwica
Lake Gopło (pronounced roughly GO-pwo) is the largest natural lake in Kuyavia, a long glacial lake in central Poland, about 25 km from end to end. The town of Kruszwica on its northern shore is where you will find the Mouse Tower and the l…
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Jeziory
Lake Góreckie (Jezioro Góreckie, say "yeh-ZHOR-oh goo-RETS-kyeh") is the best-known lake in Wielkopolski National Park, about 15 km south of Poznań in western Poland. Long, L-shaped and ringed by steep wooded banks, it holds two small isla…
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Czajewszczyzna
Lake Hańcza (roughly "HAHN-chah") is the deepest lake in Poland, plunging to about 108.5 m, set among glacial hills in Suwałki Landscape Park in the far northeast of the country, about 20 km northwest of Suwałki. With crystal-clear water,…
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Koszalin
Jamno is a shallow lagoon separated from the Baltic by a narrow spit on which the resorts of Mielno, Unieście and Łazy stand. On one side of the road you hear the sea, on the other lie more than 22 km² of calm water with sailing marinas. I…
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Gniezno
Gniezno Cathedral reflected in the still water of Lake Jelonek is a view that 19th-century artists were already drawing: a lithograph of Gniezno seen from the lakeshore was made after a drawing by Napoleon Orda, and in 1865 Stanisław Łukom…
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Kamińsko
Lake Kamińskie by the village of Kamińsko is a forest ribbon lake in the Zielonka Forest Landscape Park, in the municipality of Murowana Goślina. In summer it draws visitors with a bathing area on the official list for the 2026 season; out…
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Poznań
Lake Kierskie (roughly "KYER-skyeh"), usually just called Kiekrz ("kyeksh") by locals, is the largest body of water in Poznań and one of the biggest lakes in the Wielkopolska region. This long glacial lake on the city's western edge is Poz…
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Kórnik
Lake Kórnik is a narrow ribbon lake in the heart of Kórnik, part of the glacial Kórnik–Zaniemyśl Channel. It covers nearly 92 ha and is up to 6 m deep, and along its eastern shore runs a promenade of about 3 km leading to the castle, the a…
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Olsztyn
The small lake in Kusięta, in the Olsztyn municipality near Częstochowa, looks like an ordinary pond among meadows, but it is a geological rarity. It is the largest of a group of ponds that survive in karst sinkholes thanks to a layer of c…
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Łagów
Łagów sits on an isthmus between two lakes, and the southern one is calmer and shallower. Lake Łagowskie begins right behind the village houses, while its other shores are hidden in the woods of the Łagów Landscape Park. In summer pedal bo…
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Drezdenko
Lake Łubówko lies in the forests of the Drawa Forest (Puszcza Drawska), in the Drezdenko municipality, about 1.5 km west of the village of Zagórze. It covers just 15.38 ha but is up to 18.2 m deep, and its very clear water gives it a turqu…
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Poznań
Lake Malta in Poznań (Jezioro Maltańskie, yeh-ZHOH-roh mal-TAHN-skyeh; locals just say "Malta") is a man-made lake on the Cybina River and the city's favorite outdoor playground. A roughly 5.6 km loop path circles the water, and around it…
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Stargard
The surface of Lake Miedwie lies 14 metres above sea level, but at its deepest point the bed drops almost 30 metres below sea level. It is Poland's largest cryptodepression and the lowest point in the country. On the surface it all looks p…
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Mikołajki
Lake Mikołajskie is a narrow glacial trough lake that links three of the big Masurian lakes: Tałty, Bełdany and Śniardwy. Water from the central and southern parts of the Great Masurian Lakes flows through it, and so do sailors and passeng…