Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Landmarks
Gdańsk
Artus Court in Gdańsk is one of the grandest civic interiors in Poland: a Gothic hall where the city's wealthy merchants once met, feasted and did business. It stands on Long Market (Długi Targ), right behind the Neptune Fountain, in the h…
Landmarks
Toruń
On the site of today's Artus Court, the Second Peace of Toruń was sworn in 1466 – the treaty under which Gdańsk Pomerania, and with it access to the sea, returned to Poland. The present building at Rynek Staromiejski 6 is already the third…
Museums
Ciężkowice
On a hill above the Biała river, opposite Ciężkowice, stands a white manor house with a columned porch – Ignacy Jan Paderewski's only home in Poland. The pianist and prime minister bought it in 1897, and his original Petrof piano now stand…
Landmarks
Brenna
The Kossak Manor in Górki Wielkie (say "GOOR-kee VYEL-kyeh") is the partly rebuilt ruin of an 18th-century country house in southern Poland's Cieszyn Silesia region, where the Kossak family of artists and writers lived from 1922. Its best-…
Museums
Złoty Potok
In the summer of 1857 the poet Zygmunt Krasiński lived in this single-storey Neoclassical manor house in Złoty Potok – and he gave names to many of the surrounding rocks, springs and ponds, including the Irydion pond below the palace. Toda…
Palaces
Janów
This small manor house with a columned portico, tucked beneath old trees in the hamlet of Bystrzanowice-Dwór, passed through the hands of three well-known families within two centuries: the Bystrzanowskis, the Krasińskis and the Raczyńskis…
Palaces
Zator
On the road from Zator to Wadowice, in a small village on the edge of the Carpathian Foothills, stands one of the oldest noble residences in western Lesser Poland. The masonry fortified manor in Graboszyce was built around 1570–1580 by Dzi…
Palaces
Zabierzów
The chapel in the manor park at Karniowice was consecrated on 12 May 1624, when the village belonged to Jerzy Pipan — a doctor of medicine and law, a Kraków city councillor and a lecturer at the universities of Kraków and Padua. Today the…
Museums
Koszuty
Koszuty Manor (Dwór w Koszutach; say "ko-SHOO-tih"), near Środa Wielkopolska in western Poland, is one of the finest surviving timber manor houses of the Polish gentry. Built of larch around 1760, with corner pavilions and a broken roof, i…
Palaces
Łopuszna
Łopuszna Manor House (Łopuszna is pronounced roughly "wo-POOSH-nah") is one of the finest surviving wooden manor houses of the Polish gentry, a whitewashed single-story home with a tall shingled mansard roof, set at the foot of the Gorce M…
Palaces
Modlnica
For twelve years the ethnographer Oskar Kolberg lived in the white Konopka family manor in Modlnica, just outside Kraków, working on further volumes of his monumental "Lud" ("The People"). Today the classicist residence, with its columned…
Palaces
Samborzec
The manor house in Skotniki, in the Samborzec district south-west of Sandomierz, is a rare example of a fortified noble residence of the "alkierz" type: a single-storey main block with four corner pavilions, a tall broken roof covered with…
Palaces
Żytno
In the 19th century Henryk Sienkiewicz and Jacek Malczewski are said to have visited, after the war village children went to school here, and then for years the building fell into ruin. Żytno Manor House – a classicist residence from 1819…
Historic sites
Duszniki-Zdrój
The Chopin Manor in Duszniki-Zdrój (say "DOOSH-nee-kee ZDROO-y"), formerly the Spa Theater, is an elegant white pavilion in the spa park of a small resort town in southwestern Poland. In summer 1826 a 16-year-old Frédéric Chopin gave a cha…
Landmarks
Szczawnica
When the rebuilding of Dworek Gościnny in Szczawnica began in 2008, no plans of the building survived. The architects had an old postcard showing a man standing in front of the entrance – they assumed he was about 180 cm tall and used him…
Museums
Russów
Maria Dąbrowska, author of "Nights and Days", was born in this manor house near Kalisz in 1889 and spent her childhood and youth here until 1907. The house never belonged to her family – her father, Józef Szumski, managed the estate. Since…
Technical monuments
Gdańsk
A red-brick building with a 50-metre clock tower is the first thing most people see when they arrive in Gdańsk by train. Gdańsk Główny station, built in 1894–1900, is one of the city's best-known landmarks, and in front of its entrance sta…
Museums
Tarnowskie Góry
Since December 2025 the upper floor of the Neo-Renaissance railway station in Tarnowskie Góry – the former waiting room – has housed the Culture Station (Dworzec Kultury), a branch of the Tarnowskie Góry Museum. Its main attraction is the…
Historic sites
Poznań
This small pavilion next to Poznań Główny station was built for Emperor Wilhelm II, yet it went down in history thanks to someone else entirely. On 26 December 1918 crowds gathered here to welcome the pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Pader…
Technical monuments
Katowice
In front of Katowice station stand 16 reinforced-concrete "chalices" – columns that flare upwards like concrete flowers. They echo the famous Brutalist station of 1972, demolished in 2010–2011 despite protests from architects. Today's stat…
Landmarks
Wrocław
The District of Four Denominations in Wrocław (also called the District of Mutual Respect) is a small corner of the Old Town where a synagogue, an Orthodox cathedral, a Roman Catholic church and a Lutheran church all stand within about 300…
Amusement parks
Piaseczno
A DeLorean of "Back to the Future" fame, a "Harry Potter"-style car, a Chevrolet Camaro and Thomas the Tank Engine — in Zalesie Górne near Warsaw there is a collection of more than 50 cars from films and cartoons. Dzielnica Filmowa (Film D…
Viewpoints
Czerwonak
Dziewicza Góra (roughly "dzhyeh-VEE-chah GOO-rah," meaning "Maiden's Hill") is the highest point of the Puszcza Zielonka forest near Poznań, rising to 144.9 m (475 ft) in the Czerwonak municipality, about 10 km northeast of the city center…
Other
Szczyrk
The Dziewięćsił Festival is a spread-out celebration of two regions – the Beskids and Cieszyn Silesia – held simultaneously in nine towns and villages. Each location has its own programme: concerts, workshops, outdoor games, meetings and l…