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Hidden gemTechnical monuments
Wałbrzych
The last cart of coal came up from the Julia mine on 20 September 1996, and less than two decades later the site reopened as one of Poland's largest industrial heritage centres. At the Old Mine (Stara Kopalnia) in Wałbrzych you are often g…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Krzeszów
The Basilica of the Assumption in Krzeszów (say "KSHEH-shoof") is the centerpiece of a former Cistercian abbey often called the "European Pearl of the Baroque." Hidden in a small village in the foothills of the Sudetes in Lower Silesia, it…
Hidden gemMuseums
Wrocław
Under a grassy mound on Na Grobli Street lies a 19th-century underground reservoir that stored Wrocław's drinking water for more than a hundred years. Today it houses Hydropolis, Poland's only science centre devoted entirely to water, wher…
Museums
Wrocław
The Pan Tadeusz Museum in Wrocław is a modern storytelling museum run by the Ossolineum, set in the Baroque House under the Golden Sun on the Market Square. Its centerpiece is the only surviving manuscript of "Pan Tadeusz," Adam Mickiewicz…
Zoos
Wrocław
The Afrykarium in Wrocław (say af-rih-KAR-yum, VROTS-wahv) is Poland's first oceanarium devoted entirely to Africa and the star attraction of Wrocław Zoo, one of the country's most visited sights. Inside a vast, partly underground building…
Thermal baths & water parks
Wrocław
Aquapark Wrocław on Borowska Street is the city's largest water park and one of the busiest in Poland, welcoming about 2.5 million visitors in 2025. Under one roof you will find leisure pools with a wave pool and lazy river, a set of water…
Churches & monasteries
Legnickie Pole
The Basilica and Abbey in Legnickie Pole (say "leg-NEETS-kyeh POH-leh"; German: Wahlstatt) is a Baroque former Benedictine monastery in Lower Silesia, built on the site of the Battle of Legnica — the 1241 clash in which a Polish-led army w…
Churches & monasteries
Trzebnica
The Basilica and Sanctuary of St. Hedwig in Trzebnica (say "tsheb-NEE-tsah") is Silesia's oldest shrine and the resting place of St. Hedwig of Silesia, patron saint of the region. A Romanesque brick church from the early 13th century, the…
Churches & monasteries
Wambierzyce
A monumental stone staircase leads up to the basilica in Wambierzyce: 56 steps, with 33 in the central flight symbolising the years of Christ's life. Above it rises a palace-like façade 52.5 m high, its balustrade lined with statues of the…
Churches & monasteries
Ziębice
In German the church was called "Münster auf dem Berge", the minster on the hill, and the town itself Münsterberg. St George's Basilica has towered over the town since the second half of the 13th century, with a separate, free-standing bel…
Churches & monasteries
Strzegom
This Gothic church is about 80 metres long, built of local granite and basalt, and its tower still holds a bell cast in 1318 – one of the oldest working church bells in Poland. The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Strzegom was built by…
Churches & monasteries
Bolesławiec
A slender 55-metre tower and a brick-and-white gable patterned with lozenges are Bolesławiec's landmark, visible from many streets in the Old Town. Inside the 15th-century Gothic hall lies a completely different world: Baroque altars, gild…
Museums
Wrocław
In August 1980, about 20,000 people gathered outside the gate of this depot while bus drivers went on strike inside. Today the same red-brick hall on ul. Grabiszyńska houses the Depot History Centre (Centrum Historii Zajezdnia), a museum t…
Landmarks
Bolków
A pale tower with four slender corner turrets is the second landmark of the Bolków skyline after the castle. It stands at the junction of Kamiennogórska and Niepodległości streets, a few steps from the market square. This is the former Pro…
Museums
Szklarska Poręba
The Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann House in Szklarska Poręba (SHKLAR-ska po-REM-ba) is a museum in the former home of two German writers, the Hauptmann brothers. Around 1900 it was the heart of an artists' colony in what was then Schreiberhau.…
Museums
Jelenia Góra
The Gerhart Hauptmann House in Jagniątków (say "yag-NYON-tkoof") is a museum in Villa Wiesenstein, the home of the German playwright and 1912 Nobel Prize winner from 1901 until his death in 1946. Jagniątków, formerly Agnetendorf, is now a…
Historic sites
Duszniki-Zdrój
The Chopin Manor in Duszniki-Zdrój (say "DOOSH-nee-kee ZDROO-y"), formerly the Spa Theater, is an elegant white pavilion in the spa park of a small resort town in southwestern Poland. In summer 1826 a 16-year-old Frédéric Chopin gave a cha…
Technical monuments
Wrocław
Wrocław Market Hall (Hala Targowa, say "HAH-lah tar-GOH-vah") is a working food market that has been trading since 1908 – and a landmark of early concrete engineering. Behind its red-brick facade, giant reinforced-concrete arches soar over…
Technical monuments
Piechowice
At the Julia glassworks in Piechowice, crystal is still made by hand: glassmakers blow and shape molten glass at the furnaces, and cutters decorate the finished pieces. Visitors walk through the production hall with a guide and watch the w…
Museums
Ząbkowice Śląskie
The oldest surviving house in Ząbkowice Śląskie, the so-called Kauffung Manor at 1 Krzywa Street, holds a regional museum with eighteen rooms of mementoes of former residents. The main draw, though, is in the cellars: Frankenstein's Labora…
Caves
Kletno
Bear Cave in Kletno (Polish: Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia, roughly "yahs-KEE-nyah nyed-ZHVYEH-dzyah") is the longest cave in the Sudetes and one of the most beautiful show caves in Poland. Hidden in the Śnieżnik Massif near the Czech border, it i…
Churches & monasteries
Wrocław
St. Mary Magdalene's Cathedral in Wrocław is a towering Gothic brick church just off the Market Square, and the Penitents' Bridge (also called the Witches' Bridge) slung between its two towers is one of the best viewpoints in the city. Fro…
Churches & monasteries
Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
The former Cistercian abbey in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki is one of the most important monastic complexes in Lower Silesia: a mighty Gothic church with a Baroque interior and the former abbots' palace, with Marianne of Orange's Neo-Gothic palace…
Churches & monasteries
Kłodzko
Legend says it all began with a vision. Young Arnošt of Pardubice, a pupil at the Knights Hospitaller school in Kłodzko, saw the statue of the Virgin on the altar come to life and turn her back on him. He took it as a warning, went on to b…