Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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Lądek-Zdrój
Trojak is the mountain spa guests in Lądek-Zdrój have been climbing for generations. The summit is 766 metres high, and from its gneiss rocks and a viewing platform built in 2022 you can see almost the whole Kłodzko Valley. A few minutes f…
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Szczecin
Wały Chrobrego (say "VAH-wee khro-BREH-go"), also called Chrobry Embankment or by its old German name, the Haken Terrace, is Szczecin's grandest viewpoint and the city's signature sight. Stately early-20th-century buildings line a terrace…
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Malbork
Even at the design stage, Malbork's 1905 water tower was meant to echo the medieval architecture of the Teutonic Knights' town. This Gothic Revival brick tower on Słowiański Square is about 30 m tall. Since its restoration it has been a fr…
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Kurzętnik
On Kurza Góra in Kurzętnik, a wooden walkway almost two kilometres long climbs gently through the treetops to the top of a 35-metre tower. From up there you look over the Drwęca valley – the same valley that King Władysław Jagiełło's army…
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Boguszów-Gorce
Dzikowiec Wielki (836 m) in the Stone Mountains (Góry Kamienne) now has two observation towers, and the difference between them shows how viewpoints have changed. The older wooden one from 2014 resembles a hunter's high seat. The new one,…
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Żubracze
The tower stands right next to the tarmac, so you can climb it straight from your car – no hike and no ticket needed. This wooden structure on Przysłup Pass (749 m above sea level) is named after a village that no longer exists: Szczerbanó…
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Lublin
The Trinitarian Tower in Lublin is the Neo-Gothic bell tower of the city's cathedral and the highest viewpoint in the Old Town: from its terrace, about 40 m (130 ft) up, you can see Lublin in all four directions, from the castle to the mai…
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Wisła
The Barania Góra observation tower ("ba-RAH-nya GOO-ra") is a 15-meter steel lookout on the summit of the second-highest peak in Poland's Silesian Beskids. From its deck, on a clear day, you can see the High Tatras, Babia Góra and ranges i…
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Wałbrzych
For years Borowa was a summit with no view – and an underrated one too: the neighbouring Chełmiec was included in the Crown of Polish Mountains because, when it was measured, the instruments had been placed on a tower. Only a correction sh…
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Czerwonak
On the summit of Dziewicza Góra, the highest point of the Puszcza Zielonka forest and of the whole Poznań district (144.9 m above sea level), stands a white reinforced-concrete tower whose everyday job is watching the forest for fires. Cli…
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Jugów
Kalenica (964 m) is the third-highest peak of the Owl Mountains (Góry Sowie), after Wielka Sowa (1,015 m) and Mała Sowa (972 m). Its summit is forested, so the views come only from a steel observation tower from the 1930s, one of the symbo…
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Ochotnica Górna
On the broad summit meadow of Magurki (1,108 m) in the Gorce Mountains stands a wooden tower from which, in clear weather, you can see not only the Tatras but also the Greater Fatra range in Slovakia. It was built in 2015, and thanks to it…
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Krzyżanowice
On the last few kilometres before the Olza joins it, the Oder still flows as it pleases: it undercuts its banks, builds gravel islands and can even cut through its own bends. The best place to see this is the 27-metre steel lookout tower i…
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Poznań
On the border of Świerczewo and Fabianowo-Kotowo, above former clay pits in the Junikowo Stream valley, stands a 25-metre steel observation tower. Its deck is the best place to see how large Szachty park is: a patchwork of about 40 ponds,…
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Szczawno-Zdrój
Spa guests in Szczawno-Zdrój were already climbing Gediminas Hill for the view in 1823, when the resort doctor August Zemplin had a wooden pavilion built on the summit. The old tower collapsed at the end of the 20th century, and in 2022 a…
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Rabka-Zdrój
A wooden observation tower stands on the summit of Królewska Góra (588 m), also known as Polczakówka, on the northern edge of the spa town of Rabka-Zdrój. The hill rises only about 120 m above the Raba valley, so the walk up makes an easy…
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Żary
Above the entrance to the stone-and-brick tower in Żary's Zielony Las (Green Forest) hangs a German plaque pieced together from seven fragments found around the building. It records that the tower was built in 1864 on the initiative of the…
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Baborów
On the edge of Baborów, on ul. Wiejska, stands a small observation tower opened in September 2019. Its deck looks out over the farmland of the Głubczyce Plateau, with fields, clumps of trees and the surrounding villages. It's a short, free…
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Krynica-Zdrój
On top of the Słotwiny Arena ski area in Krynica-Zdrój stands a 49.5-metre wooden tower, reached by a boardwalk of more than a kilometre through the crowns of beech, fir and spruce. The operator calls it Poland's first treetop observation…
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Pietrowice Wielkie
Exactly 100 steps lead to the top of the tower in Pietrowice Wielkie, one for each year of independence that Poland celebrated in 2018, when the tower opened. From the upper platform, on a clear day, you can see the Moravian Gate, the low…
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Susiec
On Góra Grabowicka hill, among fields north of Susiec, stands a stone-and-timber tower with three viewing levels. It is only about 10 m tall, but the hilltop is open, so from the galleries you can see all around: the houses of Susiec, a pa…
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Wolica Kozia
From below you see only pine trees; from the top, a green belt of riverside floodplain forest, oxbow lakes and the roofs of Hermanów across the valley. Wolica Kozia Observation Tower stands in the northern part of the village, beside one o…
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Lidzbark Warmiński
Of the three gates through which travellers entered Lidzbark Warmiński for centuries, only one has survived – and strictly speaking not the gate itself but its monumental outer gatehouse. The High Gate, with two semicircular towers and a z…
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Międzyzdroje
Zielonka Hill on the eastern edge of Lubin is a viewpoint of Wolin National Park overlooking the backward delta of the Świna. From a wooden shelter you look out over a maze of marshy islands, channels and shallows, the Szczecin Lagoon and…