Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Viewpoints
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…
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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,…
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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…
Nature
Złotoryja
About 15.5 million years ago a volcano was active on the edge of today's Złotoryja. The cone is long gone, but its vent remains, and quarry walls have sliced through it like a knife. As a result, Wilcza Góra, also called Wilkołak, offers a…
Silesian
Wisła
The Vistula Cycle Route (Wiślana Trasa Rowerowa) is meant to link the Beskid Mountains with the Baltic: it starts at Wisła Uzdrowisko railway station and is ultimately to end on Sobieszewo Island in Gdańsk. The planned length is around 1,2…
Monuments & mounds
Wrocław
Wrocław is home to about 1,040 bronze dwarfs: by cash machines, on window sills, under street lamps and at office doors. The thousandth figure was unveiled in September 2025 – and this whole little population has a surprisingly serious ori…
Other
Świnoujście
Wybrzeże Władysława IV (Władysław IV Waterfront) is a quayside street and promenade along the Świna river in central Świnoujście, on the island of Usedom (Uznam) – the place where it is clearest that this is first and foremost a port town.…
Nature
Miasteczko Śląskie
In the woods near Żyglin, a district of Miasteczko Śląskie, a small scrap of an old dune has survived – a flattened patch measuring about 20 by 40 metres. The rest of the sand was dug out in the 20th century for the coal-mining industry, a…
Nature
Dźwirzyno
West of Kołobrzeg, between Dźwirzyno and Grzybowo, the beach shows a textbook cross-section of the Baltic coast in a small space: pale, shifting white dunes, then lower grey dunes covered in grassland, and beyond them pine forest on the du…
Nature
Opole
North of Opole, in the forests along the Stobrawa and Oder rivers, lie dunes you would hardly expect here: sandy hills up to 20 metres high, covered in pine forest. They are one of the most striking landscapes of the Stobrawa Landscape Par…
Landmarks
Olsztyn
The High Gate in Olsztyn (Polish: Wysoka Brama, "VIH-so-kah BRAH-mah"), historically called the Upper Gate, is a 14th-century Gothic town gate and the classic entrance to the Old Town of this lakeside city in northeastern Poland. It is the…
Gardens
Opole
As late as the 1930s, Bolko Island could only be reached by boat. Today bridges lead onto it, and the island, surrounded by the Oder and the Flood Relief Canal, is Opole's green lung: a town park with ponds, old oaks and a zoo. Locals come…
Other
Bydgoszcz
Mill Island (Wyspa Młyńska, roughly "VIS-pah MWIN-skah") is a leafy river island in the heart of Bydgoszcz, Poland, wedged between the Brda River and a narrow side channel called the Młynówka. On just 6.5 hectares (16 acres) you'll find 19…
Landmarks
Wrocław
Piasek Island in Wrocław (say "PYAH-sek," meaning "sand") is a small island in the Oder River between the Old Town and Cathedral Island, and it lies on the city's most scenic walking route. It's dominated by the Gothic Church of the Virgin…
Other
Wrocław
Słodowa Island is a small, green island in the Oder right next to the Old Town, where students sit on the grass on warm evenings and the riverside offers a view of the Baroque main building of the University of Wrocław. It looks like a pla…
Coast
Gdańsk
Sobieszewo Island was created in a single night and given its final shape by workers with shovels and barges of stone. Gdańsk's largest and easternmost district is a strip of coastal forest and dunes between two mouths of the Vistula, with…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
Granary Island in Gdańsk (Wyspa Spichrzów, roughly "VIS-pah SPEEKH-zhoov") sits between the Motława River and its man-made channel, the New Motława, directly across from the Main Town waterfront. For centuries it held hundreds of grain war…