Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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Owińska
The Owińska footbridge (Owińska is pronounced roughly "oh-VEEN-skah") is a striking cable-stayed pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Warta River just north of Poznań, in western Poland. Opened in 2023, it has a viewing tower built into it…
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Solina
The Solina Gondola Lift is a modern cable car above Lake Solina in southeastern Poland, carrying visitors from Plasza station beside Solina Dam up to Jawor hill. From the cabins you look down on the dam, the lake's winding bays and the gre…
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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…
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Radzionków
On a hill of the Tarnowskie Góry Ridge, 357 m above sea level, lies a park that Radzionków owes to the interwar years and to a man who later became governor of the Katowice province – Jerzy Ziętek. Its name, Księża Góra, means "Priests' Hi…
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Wisła
Under a hundred-year-old wild cherry tree on the Cieńków ridge, one simple rule applies: anyone who sincerely embraces and kisses their loved one here will be happy in love. This "magic tree" reached the final of Poland's Tree of the Year…
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Zwardoń
On the summit of Kikula (845 m), right on the Polish–Slovak border above Zwardoń and the Slovak village of Skalité, stands a bench that makes any adult look like a child: it is 5.3 m long and 3 m high. The Slovaks call it Lavička lásky a r…
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Stary Sącz
Leśne Molo (say "LESH-neh MOH-loh", literally "Forest Pier") is a free treetop walkway on Miejska Góra, a wooded 421-meter hill right above the small town of Stary Sącz in southern Poland. The wooden boardwalk runs for more than 200 meters…
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Maków Podhalański
Fields and meadows run almost to the summit here, so from the edge of the woods on Makowska Góra you can see Babia Góra, the Little Beskids and the hills rolling towards Kraków all at once. It is a modest hill right above the small town of…
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Toruń
The Toruń panorama from the Majdany Street viewpoint is the classic postcard view of the city: the entire Gothic Old Town lined up along the Vistula River, seen from the opposite bank. From here you take in St. John's Cathedral, the Town H…
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Malbork
The view of Malbork Castle from the left bank of the Nogat River is the classic picture of Poland's great Teutonic fortress (Malbork is said roughly "MAHL-bork"). From the west bank you see the whole complex at once: the High Castle, the M…
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Międzyzdroje
From Piaskowa Góra you look down on water whose colour is unlike anything else on Wolin Island: Turquoise Lake owes its hue to a white chalk bed. The hill is only 53.3 m above sea level, and the viewpoint itself sits at about 35–40 m, but…
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Stary Sącz
The spiral viewing platform on top of Dzielnica hill (539 m) in Wola Krogulecka has a shape that gave it its popular name — the "Snail" (Ślimak). The walkway curves upward above the slope, and from the top you look down on the Poprad valle…
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Święta Katarzyna
The quartzite sandstone blocks below the viewing gallery on Łysa Góra formed more than 500 million years ago and are among the oldest rocks exposed at the surface anywhere in Poland. The platform – officially the "Viewing Gallery on the St…
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Trzęsacz
When the viewing platform in Trzęsacz opened in 2009, its tip reached a dozen or so metres beyond the shoreline – today, after the beach was widened with pumped sand, the beach extends further than the end of the structure. The white steel…
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Pyrzowice
The plane-spotting platforms at Katowice Airport in Pyrzowice (say: pih-zho-VEE-tseh) are two free, purpose-built viewing decks where you can watch and photograph airliners taking off, landing and taxiing at close range. The airport built…
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Kazimierz Dolny
From a grassy hill above Kazimierz Dolny you look out over a wide bend of the Vistula, the thatched roofs of Mięćmierz and, across the river, the village of Janowiec. Albrechtówka, once called Kamienna Góra (Stone Hill), combines one of th…
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Żerków
For years, visitors who came to the hill above Brzóstków in summer mostly saw maize. In 2019 the Żerków municipality, together with the State Forests, built a viewing platform here, restoring the view over the Warta glacial valley and the…
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Ostroszowice
The viewing platform below Wrona stands at about 429 m above sea level on a yellow-marked trail above the village of Ostroszowice, near Bielawa. Wrona itself (458 m) is the highest hill of the Niemcza-Strzelin Hills and one of the Crown of…
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Zwardoń
The summit of Rachowiec is not covered by forest, and that is why this modest mountain above Zwardoń has some of the widest views in the area. Wielka Racza and Rycerzowa rise to the east, Slovakia's Malá Fatra range to the south and the Ba…
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Smołdzino
Rowokół (say "ro-VO-koow") is a forested glacial hill beside the village of Smołdzino on Poland's central Baltic coast. At about 115 m above sea level it is the highest point of the Słowiński coastal plain and for centuries served sailors…
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Klucze
The Wind Rose (Róża Wiatrów) is a wooden viewing platform in Klucze whose arms run straight down onto the sand of the Błędów Desert. From the deck you look over open stretches of the largest area of drifting sand in Poland, and a few steps…
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Wrocław
The Sky Tower Observation Deck in Wrocław (VROTS-wahv) sits on the 49th floor, about 200 m above the city, in the tallest building in Lower Silesia. From the top you can take in the whole of Wrocław: the Oder River and its islands, the spi…
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Świeradów-Zdrój
Above the spa rooftops of Świeradów-Zdrój rises Sky Walk — Poland's tallest observation tower, with a glass terrace suspended 62 metres above the ground. There are no stairs to climb: a gently winding, 850-metre wooden walkway takes you to…
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Chałupki
Silesianka is a cross-border trail of lookout towers and viewing platforms in the Silesia Euroregion, on the Polish–Czech borderland of Silesia. Today it links 34 sites — according to the project, 11 on the Polish and 23 on the Czech side…