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Brochów
A tall concrete obelisk stands on the Vistula embankment at the edge of the Kampinos Forest. Here, on 18 September 1939, in the last days of the Battle of the Bzura, Wehrmacht soldiers shot Polish prisoners of war and civilians from the su…
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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…
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Poznań
The Poznań June 1956 Monument, known locally as the Poznań Crosses (Poznańskie Krzyże), stands on Adam Mickiewicz Square in the city's Imperial District, next to the Imperial Castle. Two joined steel crosses, 19.5 m and 21 m tall and bound…
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Czerniejewo
By the old forest road known as the Leśniewo Track stands a white obelisk with a cross, and its base records the exact time of death: 12 noon, 30 December 1912. This is where Count Witold Skórzewski was killed in a hunting accident – a dip…
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Kołobrzeg
The Poland's Wedding to the Sea Monument in Kołobrzeg (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is a bold modernist landmark in the seaside park between the lighthouse and the pier. Unveiled in 1963, it commemorates the symbolic "wedding" of Poland and the…
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Mrzeżyno
Among the coastal pines of Mrzeżyno stands a large fieldstone boulder with a plaque, flanked by flagpoles. It marks 17 March 1945, when soldiers of the 1st Warsaw Cavalry Brigade reached the Baltic here and performed Poland's "wedding to t…
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Tarnowskie Góry
Miners holding lamps are Tarnowskie Góry's answer to the dwarfs of Wrocław. Since 2013 the town has unveiled a new outdoor sculpture of a 'gwarek' every year, and by December 2024 there were twelve of them – from the Market Square to outly…
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Ruda Śląska
Wrocław has its dwarfs, Katowice its beboks, and Ruda Śląska has cats. Several cast cats in an identical pose sit in different parts of the city, made from melted-down keys that residents brought to the town hall. More than 100 kilograms o…
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Sobótka
On the slopes of Ślęża and in Sobótka stand granite statues that researchers link with the Celtic cultural sphere and usually date to the La Tène period, around 400–200 BC. The best known are the Bear on the summit and the Maiden with a Fi…
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Łódź
Before it reached Łódź, it sailed some 12,000 nautical miles – from Tianjin in China to the port of Gdańsk. The mirror-polished, 3.5-metre WOŚP Heart stands on the square named after the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (Wielka Orkiest…
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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…
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Warszawa
The Warsaw Mermaid (Syrenka, pronounced "sih-REN-kah") on the Old Town Market Square is the city's best-known monument to its own coat of arms: a sword-wielding mermaid with a round shield, standing in the middle of a square of pastel town…
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gmina Dubeninki
A few hundred metres from the houses of Bolcie, in the Wiżajny district, stands a granite pillar where three countries end: Poland, Lithuania and Russia (the Kaliningrad Oblast). The point is called “Wisztyniec” and it is the northernmost…
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Koniaków
In the hamlet of Trzycatek, on the edge of the village of Jaworzynka, you can walk around three countries in a few minutes: Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Their borders have met here since 1 January 1993, and the actual meeting p…
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Wrocław
Wrocław is home to about 1,040 bronze dwarfs: by cash machines, on window sills, under street lamps and at office doors. The thousandth figure was unveiled in September 2025 – and this whole little population has a surprisingly serious ori…