Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Landmarks
Sławków
In August 1697 King Augustus II the Strong feasted at the Sławków inn and — so the story goes — broke a silver cup with his bare hands in front of the guests. The wooden inn at Rynek 2 still stands and still feeds visitors: a restaurant ha…
Mountains & peaks
Soblówka
Poland's first PTTK "bacówka" – a small mountain hut – was supposed to be flown up to the meadow in one piece by helicopter from the village of Soblówka. That proved technically impossible, so the wooden hut was built on site on Hala Rycer…
Mountains & peaks
Jastrzębik
Bacówka nad Wierchomlą is a small PTTK mountain hut in the Sądecki Beskids, set in a broad clearing at 887 m above sea level on the trail between Runek and Pusta Wielka. From the clearing you can see the Radziejowa range and, on clear days…
Mountains & peaks
Koniaków
In the hamlet of Szańce in Koniaków, the Kohut family runs a Shepherding Centre: a wooden shepherd's hut, known locally as the "kolyba", a highlander shop and an educational farm with sheep and goats. The farm practises traditional grazing…
Nature
Brodnica
Above Brodnica the Drwęca river makes a wide bend, and every spring its flat, marshy valley floor floods. During migration up to 20,000 waterbirds stop here, including up to 7,000 greater white-fronted geese. The easiest way to look into t…
Amusement parks
Katowice
Bajka Pana Kleksa (Mr Blot's Fairy Tale) is a family centre for play and learning in the former Porcelain Factory in Katowice: more than 1,400 m² of puzzles, experiments and sets inspired by Jan Brzechwa's novels about Professor Klex. It i…
Amusement parks
Bałtów
The Bałtów Tourist Complex began in 2004 with a dinosaur trail, and according to its owner it now covers around 100 hectares in the Kamienna valley. There is a safari park toured in American school buses, a European bison enclosure, a mini…
Zoos
Bałtów
Every European bison born in Bałtów gets a name starting with "Po-": Polesław, Pojata, Pompon, Poezja. It is a Polish naming tradition for the species, and the herd is the pride of the Bałtów Animal Park (Zwierzyniec Bałtowski) – a safari…
Amusement parks
Międzyzdroje
The Baltic Miniature Park at ul. Nowomyśliwska 98 in Międzyzdroje takes you around the Baltic Sea in 45 minutes. Models of monuments and lighthouses from nine countries are built at a scale of 1:25 and placed according to their real locati…
Mountains & peaks
Istebna
Signs give the height as 1220 m, but that figure refers to a survey point set almost 5 m above the ground on a concrete obelisk – the summit itself is about 1215 m. Barania Góra is the second-highest peak of the Silesian Beskids (after Skr…
Fortifications
Warszawa
The Warsaw Barbican (Barbakan, pronounced "bar-BAH-kahn") is a red-brick fortified gateway from the mid-16th century that links the Old Town and the New Town in the heart of Poland's capital. Almost every walk through the Old Town passes t…
Nature
Toruń
Barbarka is a forest recreation area on the northwestern edge of Toruń and one of the most important World War II memorial sites in northern Poland. About 7 km from the Old Town, the woods hold a half-timbered chapel of St. Barbara, a fore…
Thermal baths & water parks
solec-zdroj
Baseny Mineralne (Mineral Pools) in Solec-Zdrój (say "SOH-lets ZDROOY") is a year-round pool, sauna and health complex in a small spa village in southern Poland, famous for some of the strongest sulfur waters in the country. Its star attra…
Viewpoints
Wrocław
Bastion Sakwowy in Wrocław (roughly "SAHK-vo-vy"; long known locally as Partisans' Hill) is a 16th-century bastion of the old city walls that was turned into a romantic hilltop promenade in the 19th century. Following a major restoration c…
Fortifications
Częstochowa
The walls of St Roch's Bastion still bear the marks of Swedish cannonballs from the siege of Jasna Góra in 1655. This massive, many-sided bastion at the north-western corner of the former Jasna Góra fortress was built in 1631–1636. Its old…
Landmarks
Żnin
In the middle of Plac Wolności in Żnin stands a massive Gothic tower that everyone calls the Baszta, or bastion – although it was never part of the town walls. It is the only surviving piece of the medieval town hall, built so that the tow…
Fortifications
Trzebiatów
One night, as troops from neighbouring Gryfice prepared to storm Trzebiatów, a guard on the tower dropped a bowl of hot porridge straight onto the head of one of the attackers. The scalded man's scream roused the defenders and the town was…
Fortifications
Złotoryja
The round stone tower with brick battlements stands by a busy street a few minutes from the market square and is the best preserved part of Złotoryja's medieval fortifications. Its entrance is not at street level but 6.6 metres up – the wa…
Landmarks
Kołobrzeg
Lontowa Tower on ul. Dubois is the only part of Kołobrzeg's medieval fortifications to survive intact. The Gothic brick tower is almost 18 metres high and stands in the town centre, by the former Prussian Square (today Słowiański Square).…
Fortifications
Byczyna
Piaskowa (Sand) Tower, also called the South Tower, closes off from the south one of the best-preserved rings of town walls in Poland. Inside, the vault over a former starvation dungeon has survived, and during the 2023–2024 restoration th…
Fortifications
Kazimierz Dolny
The tower in Kazimierz Dolny is a round stone keep standing alone on the crest of Castle Hill – the oldest fortification in town and one of the best viewpoints over the Vistula River. It was built around 1300, before King Casimir the Great…
Fortifications
Krapkowice
Every day at noon a bugle call – the town's hejnał – rings out from a stone tower in Krapkowice. The tower, also called the Upper Gate Tower or Prudnik Gate Tower, is the only survivor of the town's four gates and the best-preserved part o…
Fortifications
Olkusz
The tower in Olkusz is a reconstructed half-tower with a stretch of defensive wall, standing in a corner of the Old Town right next to St Andrew's Basilica. It is the best-preserved and most legible trace of the medieval fortifications of…
Museums
Głogówek
At the very bottom of the tower was an unlit dungeon with a chain fixed to the wall – and that is where the Prison Tower in Głogówek got its name. This square brick tower next to the Castle Gate is one of the few surviving parts of the tow…