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Podzamcze
From a balloon basket the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland looks like a scale model: limestone outcrops, valleys and the ruined castles of the Trail of the Eagles' Nests form a single map. The most recognisable landmark around Podzamcze is the ru…
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Czchów
The Lesser Poland Wine Route links vineyards scattered across the region and shows that wine from Małopolska is no longer a curiosity. According to the organiser, the route now brings together 65 vineyards, while the region as a whole has…
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Wrocław
On the north-western edge of Wrocław a white pylon 122 metres high, the tallest in Poland, rises above the Oder. Hanging from it, the Rędziński Bridge carries the A8 motorway over the river and over Rędzin Island with its historic locks. I…
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Pyzdry
In Pyzdry, an ordinary flight of town steps leads from the hill with the former Franciscan friary down to the marina on the Warta – except that the risers are covered in a colourful mosaic made of more than 50,000 pieces. Around 50 steps o…
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Poznań
On the blank wall of a corner house on Rynek Śródecki stands a little street that isn't really there: a green cottage with a butcher in the doorway, a trumpeter perched on a red roof and a black cat creeping along the ridge. The three-dime…
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Pyzdry
On the wall of the sports hall in Pyzdry a priest hovers in mid-air with a hole in his belly. He is Mikołaj, parish priest of Biechowo, struck by a stone ball during the siege of Pyzdry in 1383 – the first documented use of gunpowder artil…
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Tarnowskie Góry
Step off the train in Tarnowskie Góry and you walk straight into five hundred years of the town's history, painted on a single wall. The Jubilee Mural at the transport interchange next to the station is around 120 metres long and, accordin…
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Pyzdry
On a concrete fence by the marina in Pyzdry, men are still bathing in the Warta, washerwomen are rinsing laundry, and a group of women is crossing a bridge that disappeared long ago. This large-format mural from 2021 turns old photographs…
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Wrocław
Nadodrze is a district of tenement houses, workshops and painted courtyards just across the Oder, about 10 minutes' walk from the Market Square. In 1945 it suffered far less damage than the centre, so today it shows pre-war Wrocław in its…
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Katowice
The NOSPR building in Katowice, home of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, is one of Europe's finest modern concert halls and the most striking piece of architecture in the city. Clad in dark brick with vivid red recesses, it st…
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Wieliczka
On Wieliczka's Upper Market Square (Rynek Górny) the paving seems to crack open, revealing the depths of the salt mine with St Kinga's Chapel. The illusion is the work of Ryszard Paprocki – the 3D street painting "Solny Świat" (Salt World)…
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Białystok
For almost sixty years Białystok's symphony musicians played without a home of their own – in a theatre, in a small palace, in an old hall on Podleśna Street. Today they have one of the most modern music buildings in this part of Europe: a…
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Bydgoszcz
The Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Poland, is the city's opera house on the Brda River, instantly recognizable by its three white drum-shaped "circles." Its construction famously dragged on for more than 34 years, and today it's one of Poland's…
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Zbrosławice
Zbrosławice in Tarnowskie Góry County is a village where horses are part of the landscape. The Zbrosławice municipality is known for its many riding centres, and the centre in Zbrosławice itself is a good base for riding lessons and horseb…
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Siedlęcin
A timber building with a terrace resting on stone pillars hangs on the edge of a cliff above Lake Modre, at the foot of Wieżyca hill in the Bóbr valley. Perła Zachodu ("Pearl of the West") has stood here since 1927, and its history has a l…
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Krynica-Zdrój
The Main Pump Room in Krynica-Zdrój (KRIH-nee-tsah ZDROOY) is a glass-walled modernist pavilion on the spa town's promenade where visitors have been drinking mineral water straight from the taps since 1971. It is the social heart of one of…
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Ustroń
Ustroń is the only town in the Silesian Beskids with official spa status, yet for a long time it had no pump room of its own. Today a glazed pavilion stands in the Spa Park in Zawodzie, on ul. Sanatoryjna, its shape echoing Ustroń's famous…
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Kazimierz Dolny
There is no bridge between Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec, although the two are less than 5 km apart across the Vistula. Since 8 June 1996 a ferry has bridged the gap: a few minutes on deck replaced a detour of about 34 km via Puławy, with v…
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Kórnik
The Kórnik Promenade (Kórnik is pronounced roughly "KOOR-neek") is a lakeside walking and cycling path along Lake Kórnik, a small town about 20 km southeast of Poznań in western Poland. Named after the Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szym…
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Szczawnica
Roughly 1,800 metres of promenade follow the Grajcarek stream from the lower station of the Palenica chairlift towards the Dunajec valley, and the town council calls it one of the longest promenades in Poland. It is the easiest way to get…
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Ojców
In the heart of Ojców National Park, by the Jonaszówka viewpoint, ponds holding brown trout have been in use since 1935. A few years ago they were due to be filled in – today they form a trout farm and grill garden serving trout smoked ove…
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Nowy Targ
Pensjonat Pstrąg in Łopuszna, on the road from Nowy Targ to Krościenko, is the place to go if you want fresh fish in the Podhale region rather than smoked sheep's cheese. The restaurant's speciality is trout from its own farm – the owners…
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Sromowce Niżne
Rafting and kayaking on the Dunajec River (say "doo-NYE-ets") in the Pieniny Mountains is one of the top things to do in southern Poland, about 115 km (70 miles) south of Kraków on the Slovak border. The river cuts a winding gorge between…
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Sandomierz
The oldest engravings and paintings show Sandomierz from the Vistula — and that is exactly the view you get from the wooden boat "Sandomierka". It is a replica of a traditional raftsmen's dubas run by the Sandomierka Foundation; it takes u…