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Thermal baths & water parks
Kraków
The Kraków Water Park (Park Wodny, say "PARK VOD-nee") is the city's big indoor aquapark, open since 2000 in the Mistrzejowice district, about 2.5 km north of the Main Market Square. Under a striking timber roof you'll find pools, a lazy r…
Museums
Kraków
The Rynek Underground (Podziemia Rynku, "pod-ZHEM-ya RIH-neh-koo") in Kraków is a museum hidden beneath the city's Main Market Square, one of the largest medieval squares in Europe. Below the cobbles around the Cloth Hall, archaeologists u…
Amusement parks
Rabka-Zdrój
Rabkoland started in 1988 as the "Alibaba" funfair on a muddy two-hectare plot in the centre of Rabka-Zdrój. Today it is a family amusement park beside the Poniczanka and Raba streams, rebuilt in 2019 and divided into six themed zones for…
Amusement parks
Zakopane
Every winter a snow maze is built from scratch at the foot of the Wielka Krokiew ski jump in Zakopane – the organisers stress that it is the only structure of its kind in Poland and call it the largest snow maze in the world. Producing the…
Amusement parks
Niedzica
At Spiska Kraina, Dunajec Castle, the Red Monastery and the wooden church in Dębno stand just a few steps apart – at a scale of 1:20. This family amusement park in Niedzica-Zamek began with a miniature park of monuments of Podhale, Spiš an…
Ski resorts
Zakopane
Polana Szymoszkowa (poh-LAH-nah shih-mosh-KOH-vah) is a ski area on the south slope of Gubałówka hill in Zakopane, Poland's best-known mountain town, and it is famous for its views: from the slopes you look straight at the High Tatras and…
Ski resorts
Wierchomla Mała
Wierchomla Ski Station lies in Wierchomla Mała, in a side valley between Piwniczna-Zdrój and Muszyna, within Poprad Landscape Park. Its slopes run between 590 and 896 m above sea level, and its signature lift is a 1,600 m four-seat chairli…
Ski resorts
Witów
From the top station of the chairlift in Witów you get a full view of Giewont, the Czerwone Wierchy ridge and the whole of the Western Tatras, and the way down is a wide, gentle slope without the crowds of Zakopane. Witów-Ski is a family s…
Zoos
Zakopane
Below the Wielka Krokiew ski jump, at ul. Piłsudskiego 38, you can see an Alpine marmot up close without setting foot on a trail. The Tatra Educational Park is a 1.5-hectare enclosure home to 14 species of animals, from red deer and fallow…
Thermal baths & water parks
Białka Tatrzańska
Terma Bania in Białka Tatrzańska (roughly "BYAW-kah tah-TZHAN-skah") is one of the busiest thermal water parks in the Polish Tatra foothills. It sits at the foot of the Kotelnica Białczańska ski slopes and offers 15 pools, more than 300 m…
Thermal baths & water parks
Bukowina Tatrzańska
The water you swim in at Bukowina Tatrzańska fell as rain on the forested lower slopes of the Tatras around 10,000 years ago. For millennia it seeped through the rock until a borehole 2,400 m deep brought it to the surface at 67°C. Termy B…
Thermal baths & water parks
Zakopane
Termy Zakopiańskie (roughly "TER-mi zah-ko-PYAN-skyeh"), formerly known as Aqua Park Zakopane, is the thermal water park inside Zakopane itself, Poland's best-known mountain resort. It sits on Jagiellońska Street at the foot of Antałówka h…
Amusement parks
Inwałd
On a rocky rise in Inwałd, behind a palisade of wooden logs, stands a "medieval" stronghold of about 2,500 m² – complete with towers, an armoury and a torture chamber. It is not a historic monument but a theme park opened in July 2012, now…
Landmarks
Szczawnica
The Nad Zdrojami Villa, also known as the House over the Springs, stands on the eastern side of Dietl Square in the heart of spa-town Szczawnica. Since the 19th century, spa guests have been served the local carbonated waters here, right a…
Castles
Muszyna
Muszyna Castle (MOO-shih-nah) is a partly rebuilt medieval stronghold on Baszta hill (527 m) above the Poprad River valley and the small spa town of Muszyna in southern Poland. After a reconstruction completed in 2023, the former ruin has…