Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Landmarks
Sopot
The Crooked House in Sopot (Krzywy Domek, say "KSHIH-vih DOH-mek") is a building that looks as if it is melting: wavy walls, warped windows and a roof like a fairy-tale hat. It stands on Sopot's famous pedestrian street, Bohaterów Monte Ca…
Gardens
Człuchów
This wooded park on a former peninsula by the ruins of the Teutonic castle is named after a Prussian queen. Louise stopped in Człuchów in 1807 and was taken with the spot, and four years later the townspeople named it Louise's Hill. Today…
Nature
Władysławowo
Between Jastrzębia Góra and Rozewie the coast is cut by a narrow ravine that takes you from the clifftop straight down to the beach. Lisi Jar – "Fox Ravine" – is only about 350 metres long, but in places it is 50 metres deep, and its slope…
Coast
Puck
In February 1920 General Józef Haller threw a platinum ring into the Bay of Puck – this was Poland's symbolic "wedding to the sea". More than a century later Puck's quays bring together three worlds: a fishing harbour, a yacht port and a n…
Old towns & squares
Gdynia
Gdynia's Modernist City Centre is Poland's newest UNESCO World Heritage Site: an entire downtown built between 1926 and 1939 around a brand-new seaport on the Baltic coast. Instead of a single monument, you get a walkable district of pale,…
Old towns & squares
Sopot
Monciak (say "MON-chak"), officially Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street, is the main pedestrian promenade of Sopot and one of the busiest spots on the whole Polish Baltic coast. The car-free street runs downhill from the railway station and St…
Technical monuments
Bytów
Six brick arches on granite piers span the Boruja valley as if the builders had set out to give Bytów its own Roman aqueduct. The railway bridge of about 1884 is over 73 metres long and 16 metres high, and for years people said that no tra…
Viewpoints
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…
Coast
Gdynia
Few Polish cities have a beach just minutes from their main street. In Gdynia you simply walk down from Kościuszko Square and you are on the sand, looking at the port, the South Pier and the Sea Towers skyscrapers. Śródmieście (City Centre…
Coast
Gdynia
In 1934, soldiers of an army bridge-building battalion from Modlin extended the wooden pier at Orłowo to 430 metres in just two months so that excursion steamers could moor by the beach — at the time Orłowo was competing with neighbouring…
Coast
Łeba
The beach at Łeba ("WEH-bah") is a broad ribbon of pale, fine sand on both sides of the harbor of this small resort on Poland's central Baltic coast, often counted among Poland's finest. To the west it turns into the wild shore of Słowińsk…
Coast
Rowy
The beach at Rowy has two personalities: west of the mouth of the Łupawa river the cliff coast begins, while to the east stretch the shifting dunes of Słowiński National Park. This small holiday village in Ustka municipality, between Ustka…
Coast
Puck
Thousands of years ago, people living on the headland at Rzucewo hunted seals and worked amber – an entire Neolithic culture, the Rzucewo culture, is named after this village. Today a narrow sandy beach runs below a wooded bluff on the Bay…
Coast
Sopot
Sopot Beach is the wide, sandy shoreline that runs the full length of Sopot, the spa town between Gdańsk and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast. With the famous wooden pier, the historic Grand Hotel and timber bathhouses as a backdrop, it is…
Coast
Władysławowo
Władysławowo is Poland's northernmost town, and its central beach stretches for about 3 km with more than 20 m of pale sand. The town sits at the base of the Hel Peninsula, between the open Baltic and the Bay of Puck, so in a few minutes y…
Monuments & mounds
Gdańsk
The Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 in Gdańsk – three soaring steel crosses with anchors on Solidarity Square, outside Gate No. 2 of the former shipyard – honors workers killed when the communist authorities crushed protest…
Coast
Ustka
Ustka began with its harbour: it was the medieval town of Słupsk that founded a landing place at the mouth of the Słupia, giving itself a window on the Baltic. Today fishing boats, yachts and excursion ships moor along the harbour canal, a…
Coast
Ustka
The Ustka seaside promenade is the walk that defines this small Polish Baltic resort: a raised boardwalk-style path running along the dunes from the lighthouse and harbor mouth eastward above a wide sandy beach. Ustka (say "OOST-kah"), onc…
Nature
gmina Kosakowo
The Beka Nature Reserve (Rezerwat Beka, roughly "BEH-kah") protects rare coastal salt meadows on Puck Bay, at the old mouth of the Reda River, about 15 km (9 miles) north of Gdynia. Its caretakers at OTOP, the Polish BirdLife partner, call…
Nature
Rewa
Between Rewa and Mechelinki, right on the Bay of Puck, stretches a belt of wet meadows, reed beds and low dunes. This is the Mechelińskie Łąki reserve – more than 113 hectares protected since 2000 as a refuge for water and marsh birds. In…
Landmarks
Łeba
In a pine wood on the western bank of the Łeba river stands a lone fragment of brick wall. It is all that remains above ground of a medieval town – Old Łeba, destroyed by storms and buried by sand. Słowiński National Park calls the ruins o…
Other
Gdynia
Kościuszko Square (Skwer Kościuszki, roughly "kosh-CHOOSH-ko") is Gdynia's grand promenade, running from the main shopping street, Świętojańska, straight to the sea and the South Pier. This is where the city celebrates, strolls and takes p…
Monuments & mounds
Ustka
In the design she had a graceful tail and a slender figure, but once cast in bronze – as the sculptor himself complained – she was holding not a salmon but "a dead carp". Despite its stormy beginnings, the Ustka Mermaid (Syrenka Ustecka) s…
Technical monuments
Gdynia
About 300 m off the beach at Babie Doły in Gdynia, a concrete ruin rises from the waters of the Gulf of Gdańsk like a ship run aground. This is the torpedo building – a torpedo assembly and test hall built by the Germans during the Second…