Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Palaces
Jarocin
The Radoliński Palace in Jarocin (pronounced "yah-ROH-tseen") is a castle-like Gothic Revival mansion with battlements and turrets, set in a historic park in the middle of a small town in western Poland. It was designed by Friedrich August…
Gardens
Poznań
In the Sołacz district, between Wielkopolska Avenue and the Bogdanka valley, lies a park best known for its avenue of silver maples. Adam Wodziczko Park covers more than 7 hectares and has over 2,000 trees of 54 species, and its patron was…
Museums
Konin
The Mikroskala Model Park in Konin is a hall full of miniature worlds: from Columbus's caravels and the sinking Titanic to the Moon landing, dinosaurs and Star Wars. Open since May 2013, it displays more than 50 models, some of which visit…
Amusement parks
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…
Landscape parks
Poznań
Every day at noon a narrow-gauge steam locomotive in Rataje Park puffs out clouds of smoke and sounds its whistle – though it never leaves. It is the party piece of the Środa County Railway open-air museum, set in the heart of Poznań's sec…
Amusement parks
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…
Technical monuments
Gniezno
The Gniezno Roundhouse (Parowozownia Gniezno) is a historic steam locomotive depot next to the main railroad station in Gniezno, western Poland, and one of the largest surviving depot complexes in Europe. Two vast fan-shaped engine sheds,…
Nature
Gołuchów
In the woods next to the Gołuchów arboretum live European bison, Polish konik horses, fallow deer and wild boar – on more than 20 ha of fenced land, part of which is a meadow used as bison pasture. The Animal Display Enclosure has been her…
Monuments & mounds
Czerniejewo
By the old forest road known as the Leśniewo Track stands a white obelisk with a cross, and its base records the exact time of death: 12 noon, 30 December 1912. This is where Count Witold Skórzewski was killed in a hunting accident – a dip…
Landmarks
Poznań
Poznań Town Hall (Ratusz, say "RAH-toosh") on the Old Market Square is one of the finest Renaissance town halls in Central Europe and the symbol of the city. Every day at noon two mechanical billy goats pop out above the clock and butt hea…
Museums
Poznań
The Croissant Museum in Poznań (Rogalowe Muzeum Poznania, roughly "ro-GAH-lo-veh moo-ZEH-oom") is a lively, hands-on show rather than a museum of display cases. Right on the Old Market Square, costumed hosts teach you how Poznań's famous S…
Museums
Pobiedziska
The Piast Trail Miniature Park in Pobiedziska (say "poh-byeh-JEE-skah") lets you walk past Greater Poland's greatest landmarks in under an hour. Its 37 outdoor models at 1:20 scale range from Gniezno Cathedral and Poznań's Old Market Squar…
Technical monuments
Środa Wielkopolska
The Środa County Railway (Średzka Kolej Powiatowa; Środa is pronounced "SHROH-dah") is a heritage narrow-gauge line running about 9 miles between Środa Wielkopolska and Zaniemyśl, roughly 22 miles southeast of Poznań in western Poland. On…
Zoos
Poznań
Poznań's zoo began as a birthday joke. In 1871 the regulars of a restaurant by the railway station, members of a skittles club, decided to celebrate their president's fiftieth birthday by giving him… animals. From a goat, a sheep, a peacoc…
Nature
Mieleszyn
In the middle of the fields at Sokolniki near Gniezno lies a boulder that, according to local legend, was meant to crush a church under construction. The Mieleszyn municipality calls it the area's greatest curiosity: Tarcza Olbrzyma – the…
Thermal baths & water parks
Poznań
Termy Maltańskie in Poznań (roughly TER-mih mahl-TAHN-skyeh, POZ-nahn) is one of Poland's largest swimming complexes: a water park, a sauna area and Olympic-standard sports pools on the north shore of Lake Malta. Some pools are fed with ge…
Castles
Gołuchów
Gołuchów Castle (say: go-WOO-hoof) is a fairy-tale château in western Poland that has housed a branch of the National Museum in Poznań since 1951. Rebuilt in the 19th century by Princess Izabela Działyńska, née Czartoryska, in the spirit o…
Zoos
Nowy Tomyśl
Nowy Tomyśl Zoo (NO-vih TOH-mishl) is a small, leafy zoo in the town park of Nowy Tomyśl, a market town in western Poland between Poznań and the German border. Open since 1974, it keeps around 200 animals of 48 species, from camels and zeb…