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Churches & monasteries
Ślesin
The tall, sharply pointed red-brick tower is Ślesin's landmark – you can see it from the lakeside promenade and from the water of Lake Ślesin. The Church of St Nicholas the Bishop and the Good Shepherd was built in 1907–1910 in the Gothic…
Churches & monasteries
Owińska
Owińska is best known for its Baroque former Cistercian convent, yet the village's oldest monument is a far humbler church. The brick St Nicholas Church was built from the first half of the 15th century until 1574, and after almost eight d…
Churches & monasteries
Wierzenica
St. Nicholas Church in Wierzenica (say "vyeh-zheh-NEE-tsah") is the oldest church on the Trail of Wooden Churches around Zielonka Forest, a short drive from Poznań in western Poland. This log-built village church, with a shingled roof and…
Churches & monasteries
Krotoszyn
On the Small Market Square in Krotoszyn stands the Baroque Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul – the former church of the Trinitarians, an order that ransomed Christian captives. The brick church was funded in the 1760s by Ludwika Potock…
Landmarks
Dobrzyca
The wooden Church of St Thecla stands on the west side of the market square in Dobrzyca (Rynek 6) and has survived two fires and one relocation: in the 1980s its body was cut apart and rolled onto new foundations. The church of 1778 was re…
Churches & monasteries
Witaszyce
Locals in Witaszyce simply call it "the Little Church". The white Neoclassical Holy Trinity Church dates from 1808 and stands on a site where a church already existed in the 14th century; on its outer walls hang memorial plaques to the Gor…
Churches & monasteries
Koźmin Wielkopolski
The parish Church of Our Lady and St Lawrence on ul. Kościelna in Koźmin Wielkopolski is one of the most richly furnished churches in southern Greater Poland. Its 15th-century Gothic core was given a Baroque dress in the 17th century, and…
Churches & monasteries
Gniezno
The Holy Trinity parish church (fara) stands on ul. Farna, a few dozen metres south of Gniezno's Market Square, on Maiden Hill (Wzgórze Panieńskie). It is one of the oldest churches in the city and for centuries was the burghers' most impo…
Churches & monasteries
Giecz
The first church on this spot was so small that it held only about 30 worshippers. On its foundations, around the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, builders raised the present single-nave church of granite blocks, with walls 110 cm thic…
Churches & monasteries
Kórnik
All Saints' Church tells the second half of Kórnik's story of powerful families. The Górkas, Działyńskis and Zamoyskis lived in the castle, and here are their tombs: Renaissance monuments to the governors of Poznań and a Neoclassical tomb…
Amusement parks
Borówiec
In the wooded village of Borówiec near Kórnik, inside a hall at ul. Uroczysko 1, a dozen trains run at the same time across more than 450 m² of H0-scale (1:87) layout. The operator bills it as the largest model railway in Poland, and it is…
Museums
Poznań
The Archaeological Museum in Poznań is housed in the Renaissance Górka Palace (Pałac Górków, say "PAH-wats GOOR-koof") at Wodna 27, a block south of the Old Market Square. Founded in 1857, it is one of Poland's oldest archaeological museum…
Museums
Gniezno
The Archdiocesan Museum in Gniezno (Muzeum Archidiecezji Gnieźnieńskiej) holds the treasury of Gniezno Cathedral, one of the oldest and richest church collections in Poland. In a building just behind the cathedral on Lech Hill you can see…
Museums
Poznań
In a long brick corridor of a former Prussian fortress, hidden among the trees of Poznań's Citadel Park, the story of one army and one battle is told. The Poznań Army Museum follows the soldiers of General Tadeusz Kutrzeba from mobilisatio…
Museums
Poznań
The Armored Warfare Museum in Poznań (Muzeum Broni Pancernej, roughly "MOO-zeh-oom BRO-nee pan-TSER-nay") holds one of Poland's largest collections of tanks and military vehicles, displayed in modern halls in the city's Wola district. A br…
Museums
Opatówek
The Museum of the History of Industry in Opatówek occupies the Fiedler family's neoclassical cloth factory, built in 1824–1826 – a building that is itself a monument of technology. Its timber frame survives across five storeys together wit…
Museums
Poznań
The Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznań (Muzeum Instrumentów Muzycznych) is a branch of the National Museum housed in historic townhouses at Stary Rynek 45, on the corner of Woźna Street. The museum describes itself as the only institu…
Museums
Gołuchów
The idea of a museum devoted to forests was announced by the Galician Forestry Society as early as 1894, at the General National Exhibition in Lviv, but it took almost a century to open one. The Forestry Museum in Gołuchów was officially o…
Technical monuments
Osieczna
On a hill by the road from Osieczna to Leszno, three wooden post mills have stood side by side for more than 250 years. The two oldest date from 1761 and 1763, and the museum says this is the only place in Poland with three original 18th-c…
Museums
Poznań
The National Museum in Poznań is one of Poland's leading art museums, and its main building on Plac Wolności houses the Gallery of Painting and Sculpture. It is the place to see Polish painting from Matejko to Malczewski, 20th-century art,…
Museums
Kalisz
The Kalisz Regional Museum is one of the oldest regional museums in Poland and the best place to get to know the history of Kalisz and the Prosna basin. In the building at 12 Kościuszki Street you can see, among other things, the denarius…
Museums
Poznań
The Greater Poland Uprising Museum in Poznań occupies the elegant 18th-century Guardhouse (Odwach, say "OD-vahh") in the middle of the Old Market Square, right next to the Town Hall. It tells the story of the 1918–1919 uprising that brough…
Museums
Uzarzewo
The Natural History and Hunting Museum in Uzarzewo (say "oo-zah-ZHEH-vo") is a family-friendly museum in a 19th-century palace set in landscaped parkland about 15 km east of Poznań, in western Poland. It traces hunting from the Stone Age t…
Museums
Szreniawa
The National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa (shreh-NYAH-vah), a village just southwest of Poznań in western Poland, is the country's only agricultural museum of national rank and one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Set on a histo…