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Brenna
On the slope of Grabowa above Brenna, around the Chata Grabowa mountain hut, the hosts are Svarog, the Noon Witch and the Water Demon. The Fairy-Tale Garden is an open-air themed trail with characters from the legends and folk tales of the…
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Lubnica
A beetle, a spider, a butterfly and a praying mantis the size of a car: in Lubnica, in the Okonek district, insects are shown magnified up to 200 times. Owadogigant is a family amusement park on the edge of the Drawa Landscape Park, where…
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Podzamcze
Turn a crank and watch the water in a spinning globe form a funnel, step onto a rotating platform, then strap into a rollover simulator to feel what happens to your body in an overturning car. The Physics Experience Park in Podzamcze is an…
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Kobierzyce
Every autumn the park around a medieval tower house in Ślęza, just outside Wrocław, turns into a garden of light. The illumination park, now run under the name Lumina Park, follows a 1.5-kilometre route past more than 200 light installatio…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rabka-Zdrój
Rabkoland started in 1988 as the "Alibaba" funfair on a muddy two-hectare plot in the centre of Rabka-Zdrój. Today it is a family amusement park beside the Poniczanka and Raba streams, rebuilt in 2019 and divided into six themed zones for…
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Zakopane
Every winter a snow maze is built from scratch at the foot of the Wielka Krokiew ski jump in Zakopane – the organisers stress that it is the only structure of its kind in Poland and call it the largest snow maze in the world. Producing the…
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Niedzica
At Spiska Kraina, Dunajec Castle, the Red Monastery and the wooden church in Dębno stand just a few steps apart – at a scale of 1:20. This family amusement park in Niedzica-Zamek began with a miniature park of monuments of Podhale, Spiš an…
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Żory
A sheriff's office with a cell for outlaws, a post office with a telegraph, gunfights on the main street and Luisa the cow, on whom children can practise milking — the Twinpigs American Amusement Park in Żory was built as a town straight o…
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Inwałd
On a rocky rise in Inwałd, behind a palisade of wooden logs, stands a "medieval" stronghold of about 2,500 m² – complete with towers, an armoury and a torture chamber. It is not a historic monument but a theme park opened in July 2012, now…
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Kraków
A Ghanaian village, a Peruvian hut, a Mongolian yurt and a Papuan stilt house stand a few steps apart in Kraków. Wioski Świata (Villages of the World) is a Global Education Park created by the Salesians, where homes from different parts of…