Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Historic sites
Żarki
For centuries Żarki in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland was a Polish-Jewish town. The town's Jewish Heritage Trail leads through six stops — from Koziegłowska Street to the Old Market Square — and shows what remains of that community: a synag…
Historic sites
Nysa
A shell on a blue background and a yellow arrow point the way from Nysa to Santiago de Compostela – the apostle's tomb is a very long way off, but every stretch of the Way of St James belongs to the same European network. Through Nysa runs…
Nature
Susiec
Along a stretch of about 400 metres, the Tanew river tumbles over 24 rock steps. The water pours over them in low, wide cascades, and you hear the rushing long before you see the river – hence the local name szumy (from the Polish word for…
Other
Wągrowiec
Every day at noon and after dark, Wągrowiec's market square turns into a small stage: the water in the fountain dances to music, and in the evening coloured lights join in. The dancing fountain was built during the revitalisation of the sq…
Nature
Mieleszyn
In the middle of the fields at Sokolniki near Gniezno lies a boulder that, according to local legend, was meant to crush a church under construction. The Mieleszyn municipality calls it the area's greatest curiosity: Tarcza Olbrzyma – the…
Technical monuments
Gdynia
About 300 m off the beach at Babie Doły in Gdynia, a concrete ruin rises from the waters of the Gulf of Gdańsk like a ship run aground. This is the torpedo building – a torpedo assembly and test hall built by the Germans during the Second…
Viewpoints
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…
Landscape parks
Gdańsk
Tricity Landscape Park (Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "troy-MYAY-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is a green belt of forests above Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast, where ravines, beech woods and pine forest lie…
Monuments & mounds
gmina Dubeninki
A few hundred metres from the houses of Bolcie, in the Wiżajny district, stands a granite pillar where three countries end: Poland, Lithuania and Russia (the Kaliningrad Oblast). The point is called “Wisztyniec” and it is the northernmost…
Monuments & mounds
Koniaków
In the hamlet of Trzycatek, on the edge of the village of Jaworzynka, you can walk around three countries in a few minutes: Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Their borders have met here since 1 January 1993, and the actual meeting p…
Landmarks
Sandomierz
The Needle's Eye (Ucho Igielne), also called the Dominican Gate, is a narrow passage through Sandomierz's old defensive walls, leading west from the Old Town towards the Dominican friary at St James's Church. It is the only surviving wicke…
Coast
Dębki
At the western end of the beach in Dębki the Piaśnica river cuts through the sand and flows into the Baltic. A wooden footbridge and cycle bridge crosses the river mouth, and all around there is nothing but dunes, forest and a wide beach.…
Landmarks
Częstochowa
On its southern side, the Jasna Góra hill is skirted by a street where the headquarters of the Home Army's commander-in-chief stood in the last months of the Second World War. It was in house no. 21 that General Leopold Okulicki, codename…
Old towns & squares
Gdańsk
Long Street (ulica Długa) and the Long Market (Długi Targ) form the main axis of Gdańsk's Main Town and the heart of the Royal Route. The unofficial name recalls the ceremonial entries of Polish kings, a tradition begun in 1457 by Casimir…
Old towns & squares
Katowice
Mariacka Street (say "mar-YATS-ka") is the liveliest pedestrian street in central Katowice, lined with 19th-century townhouses and closed at one end by the soaring neo-Gothic spire of St. Mary's Church. By day it is a relaxed spot for coff…
Landmarks
Krynki
Drivers arriving in Krynki for the first time often circle Plac Jagielloński a few times before finding the right exit. From the roundabout in the centre of this small town near the Belarusian border, no fewer than 12 streets radiate outwa…
Nature
Chorzów
A few minutes from the A4 motorway, where Chorzów, Katowice and Ruda Śląska meet, grows a forest that looks as if Upper Silesia's industry passed it by. Uroczysko Buczyna is 65 hectares of old beech woodland with hundreds of mighty trees,…
Hiking & tourist trails
Dźwirzyno
The Velo Baltica cycle route from Kołobrzeg to Dźwirzyno and Mrzeżyno (jvee-ZHI-no, mzhe-ZHI-no) is one of the most enjoyable stretches of Poland's Baltic coast trail: roughly 20 km (12 miles) of flat riding through coastal pine forest, pa…
Viewpoints
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…
Greater Poland
Poznań
The Wartostrada is a network of paved walking and cycling paths along both banks of the Warta River, letting you cross Poznań by the water, away from the streets. The whole route along the Warta and Cybina rivers is about 14 km long and ru…
Nature
Jawor
In the rocks above the Jawornik stream you can see pillow lavas – the traces of undersea volcanic eruptions from the early Palaeozoic. About a kilometre from the village of Myślibórz, on Rataj hill, the basalt columns of the Małe Organy My…
Landscape parks
Wdzydze Kiszewskie
Wdzydze Landscape Park (Wdzydzki Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "vdzih-DZEH-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is a Kashubian lake and forest park in northern Poland, built around Lake Wdzydze. Pine woods, peat bogs, the Wda River and wide open…
Landmarks
Bydgoszcz
Townhouses, rear wings and former small factories rising straight out of the Młynówka river opposite Mill Island – this is Bydgoszcz Venice, one of the best-known views of Bydgoszcz. This group of old-town buildings forms the southern and…
Historic sites
Gdańsk
Westerplatte (pronounced "VES-ter-plah-teh") in Gdańsk is where World War II began in Europe. At dawn on September 1, 1939, a German battleship opened fire on a small Polish military depot on this peninsula at the mouth of the port, and it…