Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
Łódź
The Film Museum in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is the only museum in Poland dedicated to the technology, art and culture of cinema. It occupies the 19th-century palace of textile magnate Karol Scheibler, on the edge of the Księży Młyn industrial e…
Museums
Łódź
The Museum of Art in Łódź (Muzeum Sztuki, say "WOODGE") holds one of the oldest avant-garde art collections in the world and is a must for anyone interested in modern art in Poland. It operates across three branches: ms1 in a neo-Renaissan…
Museums
Mokrsko
In Ożarów near Wieluń stands a historic wooden gentry manor house: built of larch, with four corner pavilions and a shingled Polish mansard roof. The construction date – 1757 – is carved on a ceiling beam together with the letters L.R. Sin…
Museums
Stara Wieś
The Wieluń Land Museum in Wieluń (VYEH-loon) tells the story of the small Polish town that German dive bombers attacked at dawn on September 1, 1939, the first morning of World War II. Housed in a restored 17th-century convent beside the o…
Churches & monasteries
Sulejów
Sulejów Abbey (say "soo-LEH-yoof") is one of the best-preserved Cistercian monasteries in Poland and a showpiece of Romanesque architecture on the Pilica River in central Poland. Its stone Church of St. Thomas Becket, consecrated in 1232,…
Palaces
Łódź
The Izrael Poznański Palace in Łódź (say "WOODGE") is the grandest factory owner's residence in Poland and the best place to see how a 19th-century textile boomtown made its fortunes. Locals call it the "Louvre of Łódź." Today it houses th…
Palaces
Nieborów
Nieborów Palace (say "nyeh-BOH-roof") is a Baroque residence of the Radziwiłł princes in central Poland, designed by the Dutch-born architect Tylman van Gameren and now a branch of the National Museum in Warsaw. Together with the romantic…
Thermal baths & water parks
Uniejów
Termy Uniejów (Uniejów Thermal Baths; say "oo-NYEH-yoof") is a year-round thermal pool complex on the Warta River in the small town of Uniejów, in central Poland. In 2012 Uniejów was granted official spa-resort status thanks to its geother…
Castles
Piotrków Trybunalski
The Royal Castle in Piotrków Trybunalski (pronounced "PYOT-kuv trih-boo-NAL-skee") is a Gothic-Renaissance residential tower of brick and sandstone built in 1512-1519 for King Sigismund I the Old. It served as the king's residence during p…
Castles
Rawa Mazowiecka
The octagonal tower of the castle in Rawa once held prisoners straight out of the history books: a son of the King of Sweden, a Swedish army commander and a self-proclaimed ruler of Moldavia. This Gothic castle, set in the marshy fork of t…
Castles
Oporów
Oporów Castle (roughly "OH-po-roof") near Kutno in central Poland is one of the best-preserved Gothic fortified residences in the country: a compact red-brick castle from the 1400s standing on an artificial island ringed by a moat, inside…
Zoos
Łódź
Sharks and rays glide over a 26-metre underwater tunnel, and a few steps away lies Kraken, a false gharial that the zoo describes as the largest of his species in Europe. Łódź Zoo was founded in 1938, and in 2022 it opened the Orientarium,…