Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Coast
Jastarnia
Góra Libek – officially Lubek – is a wooded dune between Kuźnica and Jastarnia on the Hel Peninsula. It rises a mere 12.5 m above sea level, yet it is the highest point on this stretch of the peninsula. Its name preserves the story of a sh…
Landmarks
Sopot
The Grand Hotel in Sopot is the most famous hotel on the Polish Baltic coast – a grand domed building right on the beach, a few minutes' walk north of the Sopot pier. Opened in 1927 as a luxury hotel for casino guests, it has hosted royalt…
Historic sites
Sopot
The Grodzisko in Sopot (say "gro-JEES-ko", meaning "hillfort") is the oldest historic site in this Baltic spa town – the remains of an early medieval Slavic stronghold on a wooded hill about 400 m from the sea. Today it is an open-air arch…
Museums
Władysławowo
Hallerówka is a wooden villa from 1924 at ul. Morska 6 in Władysławowo, where General Józef Haller – commander of the Blue Army and hero of Poland's symbolic Wedding to the Sea in 1920 – spent his summer holidays. Since 2013 it has been a…
Museums
Gdańsk
Hevelianum (pronounced "heh-veh-LYAH-noom") is a hands-on science center in Gdańsk, set inside 19th-century fort buildings on Gradowa Hill (Góra Gradowa), just a short walk from the main train station. With interactive exhibitions on energ…
Other
Gdańsk
St. Dominic's Fair in Gdańsk (Jarmark św. Dominika) is Poland's largest open-air trade and cultural festival: every summer, for more than three weeks, the streets of Gdańsk's historic Main Town fill with stalls, stages and food stands. Wit…
Lakes
Charzykowy
Lake Charzykowskie covers more than 13 km², is over 30 metres deep, and its north-eastern shore touches the boundary of Bory Tucholskie National Park. This is where Polish inland sailing began: in 1922 the Chojnice Sailing Club was founded…
Lakes
Sulęczyno
Lake Długie near Węsiory in Kashubia is a quiet, forest-fringed lake in itself, but on its northern shore lies something exceptional: a burial ground of the Goths and Gepids with stone circles and barrows nearly two thousand years old. It…
Lakes
Smołdzino
Lake Gardno is a large, shallow coastal lagoon in Słowiński National Park on Poland's Baltic coast, separated from the sea by a narrow sandbar where the village of Rowy sits. Reedbeds, wet meadows and the forested hill of Rowokół frame the…
Lakes
Przywidz
People from Gdańsk were already coming to Lake Przywidzkie Wielkie for their holidays a century ago. In the days of the Free City of Danzig, the village of Przywidz – then called Mariensee – was promoted as a "Luftkurort", a fresh-air reso…
Viewpoints
Gdynia
Kamienna Góra ("ka-MYEN-na GOO-ra," Stone Hill) is a wooded hill right above central Gdynia and the seaside boulevard, with the city's most popular viewpoint. From the terrace beneath a tall cross you look out over the port, the marina, th…
Historic sites
Brusy
In a pine forest near the Kashubian village of Leśno, stone circles rise out of the ground, and on one burial mound stands a boulder whose outline suggests a human figure. This is a cemetery used by several cultures for more than a thousan…
Historic sites
Sulęczyno
In a pine forest by Lake Długie, about 1.5 km south of the village of Węsiory in Kashubia, lies a burial ground with stone circles, barrows and standing stones almost two thousand years old. It was founded in the 70s–80s AD, and archaeolog…
Museums
Wdzydze Kiszewskie
On the shore of Lake Gołuń in Wdzydze Kiszewskie stands the oldest open-air museum on Polish soil. It began in 1906 with a single cottage bought by a village teacher and a painter. Today it covers 22 hectares and holds more than 50 buildin…
Landscape parks
Reskowo
Kashubian Landscape Park (Kaszubski Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "kah-SHOOB-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is the heart of the Kashubian Lake District in northern Poland: 34 lakes larger than 10 hectares, including Lake Raduńskie Górne an…
Churches & monasteries
Pelplin
Pelplin Cathedral (say "PEL-pleen") – the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption – is a former Cistercian abbey church and one of the largest brick Gothic churches in Poland. This small town in the Kociewie region, south of Gdańsk, hides an…
Churches & monasteries
Żarnowiec
On 10 August 1946 twelve Benedictine nuns from Vilnius arrived at the empty convent above Lake Żarnowiec — with a few belongings and a single goat. They brought back to life a place where no nun had lived since 1866, though its history rea…
Nature
Gdynia
The Orłowo Cliff (Klif Orłowski, roughly "kleef or-WOV-skee") in Gdynia is one of the most striking natural sights on Poland's Baltic coast: a steep, crumbling wall of glacial clay that drops straight into the Bay of Gdańsk. It sits on the…
Churches & monasteries
Pelplin
In the shadow of the vast cathedral it is easy to miss a small brick church with decorative stepped gables. Pelplin's Corpus Christi Church was built around 1417 and is part of the former Cistercian complex designated a Historic Monument o…
Churches & monasteries
Przechlewo
Seen from the tower end, St Anne's Church in Przechlewo looks like a village church of timber framing and wood; from the chancel end, like a red-brick neo-Gothic church. It is really two buildings grown into one: a half-timbered nave from…
Churches & monasteries
Człuchów
Człuchów's parish church has an unusual shape because in 1926 it was turned through 90 degrees. A new nave was built at right angles to the Baroque church of 1647, and the old nave became a transept. Inside, Baroque furnishings from the 17…
Churches & monasteries
Malbork
The Gothic parish church of the old town stands right below the castle, beside the Nogat, and is one of the few medieval buildings in Malbork that survived 1945. There has been a parish here since the late 13th century, and the present hal…
Churches & monasteries
Bytów
A tall tower with an arcaded gallery rises above the centre of Bytów and can be seen from the castle hill. The church was built in the mid-19th century for the Lutheran community, modelled on St Matthew's Church in Berlin, and after the wa…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk is the oldest parish church of the city's Old Town: a Gothic brick building with a Baroque spire, standing opposite the Great Mill. The great 17th-century astronomer Johannes Hevelius is commemorated here, a…