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Technical monuments
Gąski
Gąski Lighthouse (GOWN-skee) is one of the tallest and most photogenic lighthouses on Poland's Baltic coast: a slender red-brick tower rising from the trees about 100 m from the shore in the village of Gąski, roughly 22 km (14 miles) east…
Technical monuments
Darłowo
A brick tower with a white dome stands right at the mouth of the Wieprza River, on the east side of the harbour channel in Darłówko, the seaside district of Darłowo. It is just 22 m tall, and its walls are so exposed to storms that the sea…
Technical monuments
Świnoujście
The Świnoujście Lighthouse (roughly "shvee-no-OOY-shcheh") is the tallest lighthouse on the Polish coast and a striking piece of 19th-century engineering. Its brick tower rises 67.7 m (222 ft) above the mouth of the Świna River, on Wolin I…
Coast
Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg Pier (say "koh-WOB-zheg") is a 220-meter (720-foot) concrete walkway reaching into the Baltic Sea from the heart of the town's spa district, and the single most popular thing to do in this Polish seaside resort. Walk to the end f…
Museums
Trzęsacz
Fifty metres from the most famous ruin on the Polish coast, on Klifowa Street in Trzęsacz, stands the Władysław Jagiełło Multimedia Museum of Trzęsacz, also known as MuzeON. Instead of display cases it has four rooms of images, light and s…
Fortifications
Stargard
Stargard's town walls (say "STAR-gard") are one of the most impressive medieval fortification systems in Poland and a national Historic Monument since 2010. More than a kilometre of stone-and-brick wall survives, together with towers and g…
Museums
Kołobrzeg
The Kołobrzeg City Museum occupies the elegant Braunschweig Palace on Armii Krajowej Street, steps from St. Mary's Basilica and the town hall. If you want to understand how this Baltic resort came to be – from an early medieval stronghold,…
Museums
Szczecin
The National Museum in Szczecin's Main Building sits right on the Chrobry Embankment (Wały Chrobrego), the grand riverside terraces that are the city's signature view. It is the flagship of the largest museum in Western Pomerania, and in o…
Museums
Świnoujście
The Sea Fishing Museum (Muzeum Rybołówstwa Morskiego) in Świnoujście occupies the town's oldest building, the former town hall from the early 1800s on Plac Rybaka (Fisherman's Square), right by the Świna River waterfront. It is a compact m…
Museums
Szczecin
Inside a tram depot from 1913 in Szczecin's Niemierzyn district you will find Stoewer cars, Junak motorcycles, trams and Polish prototype vehicles that never went into production. The Museum of Technology and Transport – known locally as t…
Technical monuments
Gryfice
The Seaside Narrow Gauge Railway (Nadmorska Kolej Wąskotorowa) in Gryfice is one of Poland's most popular heritage railways. Its 1,000 mm gauge trains run from the town of Gryfice through the Baltic resorts of Trzęsacz, Rewal and Niechorze…
Zoos
Międzyzdroje
The Międzyzdroje Oceanarium (roughly "myen-dzy-ZDRO-yeh") is an indoor public aquarium in the heart of Poland's best-known resort on Wolin Island, a short walk from the beach and the pier. Across some 3,000 m² you'll see sharks, moray eels…
Gardens
Przelewice
The Dendrological Garden in Przelewice is one of the biggest arboretums in West Pomerania: a landscape park around a palace with roughly 1,200 species of trees, shrubs and perennials, ponds, romantic brick ruins and a Japanese corner. It s…
Palaces
Trzebiatów
Trzebiatów Palace (Trzebiatów is pronounced roughly "tsheh-BYAH-toof") is a neoclassical residence on the Rega River in northwestern Poland, about 30 km southwest of the Baltic resort of Kołobrzeg. Built on the site of a medieval stronghol…
Gardens
Kołobrzeg
Beneath the paths of this park above Kołobrzeg's beach there was once a military cemetery for the town's defenders of 1807, where columns from the medieval town hall served as gravestones for Joachim Nettelbeck and Ernst von Waldenfels. St…
Amusement parks
Dziwnów
The Świnoujście lighthouse stands 6.48 m tall here, while the one from Jastarnia is shorter than an adult – at the Seaside Miniature and Railway Park in Dziwnów nearly 30 lighthouses of the Polish coast are reproduced at a scale of 1:10. B…
Gardens
Świnoujście
The Spa Park in Świnoujście (Park Zdrojowy; say "shvee-no-OOYSH-cheh") is a historic landscaped park between the port town center and the seaside spa district on the island of Usedom. In the 1820s Peter Joseph Lenné, the celebrated royal g…
Viewpoints
Międzyzdroje
From Piaskowa Góra you look down on water whose colour is unlike anything else on Wolin Island: Turquoise Lake owes its hue to a white chalk bed. The hill is only 53.3 m above sea level, and the viewpoint itself sits at about 35–40 m, but…
Viewpoints
Trzęsacz
When the viewing platform in Trzęsacz opened in 2009, its tip reached a dozen or so metres beyond the shoreline – today, after the beach was widened with pumped sand, the beach extends further than the end of the structure. The white steel…
Coast
Dźwirzyno
Dźwirzyno Beach (jvee-ZHI-no) is a wide, sandy stretch of Baltic shoreline about 10 km (6 miles) west of Kołobrzeg in northwest Poland, backed by dunes and pine forest. The village sits on a narrow strip of land between the sea and Lake Re…
Coast
Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg Beach (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is a broad strip of fine, pale sand that runs for several kilometers east from the harbor and lighthouse, past the pier and the leafy spa parks, toward the suburb of Podczele. It is the main reason c…
Coast
Międzyzdroje
Międzyzdroje Beach (say "myen-dzih-ZDROH-yeh") is a broad stretch of pale sand on Wolin Island in northwestern Poland on the Baltic coast, and one of Poland's most popular beaches. What sets it apart is the setting: forested cliffs of Woli…
Coast
Mrzeżyno
Mrzeżyno Beach (say "mzheh-ZHIH-no") is a wide strip of fine sand on both sides of the Rega River mouth, about 18 km (11 miles) west of Kołobrzeg on Poland's Baltic coast. Instead of hotels lining the shore, a belt of pine forest grows on…
Coast
Świnoujście
The beach in Świnoujście (roughly "shvee-no-OOYSH-cheh") is one of the best reasons to visit Poland's westernmost seaside town. This broad strip of pale sand on the island of Usedom (Uznam in Polish) runs from the harbor breakwater to the…