Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Technical monuments
Bolesławiec
On the western edge of Bolesławiec the railway leaps across the Bóbr valley on 489 metres of stone arches. Built from pale sandstone and opened in 1846, the viaduct looks like a Roman aqueduct transplanted to Lower Silesia – and trains bet…
Technical monuments
Łagów
Anyone driving into Łagów from Żelechów passes under the arches of a brick viaduct, with the railway running high overhead. It is the most striking structure on the Międzyrzecz–Toporów line and, for walkers, one of the best viewpoints in t…
Technical monuments
Srebrna Góra
The two brick viaducts on the slopes of Srebrna Góra are the most striking relic of the Owl Mountains Railway (Eulengebirgsbahn) – a line that had to use a rack rail on its steepest section. The Żdanów viaduct (about 24 m high) and the Sre…
Technical monuments
Kalety
On a small wooded island in the lower pond at Kalety-Zielona stands a wooden windmill with sails — the landmark of this forest district of Kalety. A footbridge once led to it and you could even spend the night inside. Today the mill has be…
Technical monuments
Krzywiń
On Bojanowskiego Street, on the way out of Krzywiń towards Gryżyna, stands a restored wooden post mill with dark cladding and lattice sails. It is one of two windmills that survive within the town limits. In 1793 there were three working h…
Technical monuments
Rybitwy
This lone wooden post mill in the fields on the western shore of Lake Lednica was already at work in the 19th century, and today it belongs to the museum that looks after the cradle of the Piast state. Rybitwy Windmill has no ticket office…
National parks
Jeziory
Wielkopolski National Park (Greater Poland National Park; say "vyel-ko-POL-skee") is a free-to-enter landscape of forests, glacial lakes and wooded hills just 15 km south of Poznań, one of western Poland's biggest cities. It is the easiest…
Viewpoints
Malbork
Even at the design stage, Malbork's 1905 water tower was meant to echo the medieval architecture of the Teutonic Knights' town. This Gothic Revival brick tower on Słowiański Square is about 30 m tall. Since its restoration it has been a fr…
Viewpoints
Boguszów-Gorce
Dzikowiec Wielki (836 m) in the Stone Mountains (Góry Kamienne) now has two observation towers, and the difference between them shows how viewpoints have changed. The older wooden one from 2014 resembles a hunter's high seat. The new one,…
Viewpoints
Żubracze
The tower stands right next to the tarmac, so you can climb it straight from your car – no hike and no ticket needed. This wooden structure on Przysłup Pass (749 m above sea level) is named after a village that no longer exists: Szczerbanó…
Viewpoints
Wisła
The Barania Góra observation tower ("ba-RAH-nya GOO-ra") is a 15-meter steel lookout on the summit of the second-highest peak in Poland's Silesian Beskids. From its deck, on a clear day, you can see the High Tatras, Babia Góra and ranges i…
Viewpoints
Wałbrzych
For years Borowa was a summit with no view – and an underrated one too: the neighbouring Chełmiec was included in the Crown of Polish Mountains because, when it was measured, the instruments had been placed on a tower. Only a correction sh…
Viewpoints
Czerwonak
On the summit of Dziewicza Góra, the highest point of the Puszcza Zielonka forest and of the whole Poznań district (144.9 m above sea level), stands a white reinforced-concrete tower whose everyday job is watching the forest for fires. Cli…
Viewpoints
Jugów
Kalenica (964 m) is the third-highest peak of the Owl Mountains (Góry Sowie), after Wielka Sowa (1,015 m) and Mała Sowa (972 m). Its summit is forested, so the views come only from a steel observation tower from the 1930s, one of the symbo…
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Ochotnica Górna
On the broad summit meadow of Magurki (1,108 m) in the Gorce Mountains stands a wooden tower from which, in clear weather, you can see not only the Tatras but also the Greater Fatra range in Slovakia. It was built in 2015, and thanks to it…
Viewpoints
Krzyżanowice
On the last few kilometres before the Olza joins it, the Oder still flows as it pleases: it undercuts its banks, builds gravel islands and can even cut through its own bends. The best place to see this is the 27-metre steel lookout tower i…
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Poznań
On the border of Świerczewo and Fabianowo-Kotowo, above former clay pits in the Junikowo Stream valley, stands a 25-metre steel observation tower. Its deck is the best place to see how large Szachty park is: a patchwork of about 40 ponds,…
Viewpoints
Szczawno-Zdrój
Spa guests in Szczawno-Zdrój were already climbing Gediminas Hill for the view in 1823, when the resort doctor August Zemplin had a wooden pavilion built on the summit. The old tower collapsed at the end of the 20th century, and in 2022 a…
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Rabka-Zdrój
A wooden observation tower stands on the summit of Królewska Góra (588 m), also known as Polczakówka, on the northern edge of the spa town of Rabka-Zdrój. The hill rises only about 120 m above the Raba valley, so the walk up makes an easy…
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Baborów
On the edge of Baborów, on ul. Wiejska, stands a small observation tower opened in September 2019. Its deck looks out over the farmland of the Głubczyce Plateau, with fields, clumps of trees and the surrounding villages. It's a short, free…
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Pietrowice Wielkie
Exactly 100 steps lead to the top of the tower in Pietrowice Wielkie, one for each year of independence that Poland celebrated in 2018, when the tower opened. From the upper platform, on a clear day, you can see the Moravian Gate, the low…
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Susiec
On Góra Grabowicka hill, among fields north of Susiec, stands a stone-and-timber tower with three viewing levels. It is only about 10 m tall, but the hilltop is open, so from the galleries you can see all around: the houses of Susiec, a pa…
Viewpoints
Wolica Kozia
From below you see only pine trees; from the top, a green belt of riverside floodplain forest, oxbow lakes and the roofs of Hermanów across the valley. Wolica Kozia Observation Tower stands in the northern part of the village, beside one o…
Technical monuments
Poręba
Between factory halls on ul. Fabryczna stands a stone tower with the date 1798 clearly visible below the eaves. It is a remnant of the furnace that started Poręba's industrial history: the tower was used to lift the charge into a blast fur…