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Technical monuments
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
One of the minds behind this dam was Gabriel Narutowicz – a hydraulic engineer who had designed a dam on the Aare in Switzerland and later became the first President of interwar Poland. Since 1936 the concrete dam on the Soła river in Międ…
Technical monuments
Czernichów
The earth dam at Tresna closes the Soła valley between the Żywiec Basin and the Little Beskids and has held back Lake Żywiec since the mid-1960s. It rises 39 m above the valley floor and is over 300 m long, and building it meant flooding e…
Lakes
Kluczbork
The newest attraction around Kluczbork is only a little over ten years old. The reservoir on the Stobrawa river opened on 2 October 2012, and by the following summer it already had a bathing area. Today the lake at Ligota Górna is the town…
Lakes
Świerklaniec
Kozłowa Góra Reservoir, also called Lake Świerklaniec, was built in the 1930s as… an anti-tank obstacle. In the event of war it was meant to flood the Brynica valley in front of the fortifications of the Silesia Fortified Area. Today it is…
Lakes
Wadowice
On the Skawa river, a few kilometres from Wadowice, stands a dam that took longer to build than many people's entire careers. The first plans were drawn up in the 1950s, construction began in 1986, and the basin was only properly filled ar…
Nature
gmina Pilica
The white walls of Zegarowe Skały (Clock Rocks) rise above the treetops on the left slope of the Wodąca Valley, between Smoleń, Złożeniec and Strzegowa. It is one of the most popular groups of climbing rocks in the Polish Jura, and also a…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
The Green Gate in Gdańsk closes off Long Market on the river side and forms the grand finale of the Royal Route. This broad Renaissance building with four archways was meant to be the Gdańsk residence of Polish kings – none ever lived here…
Nature
gmina Żary
On the southern edge of Żary begins the hilly Green Forest, where three towers stand within a few square kilometres: the 19th-century Promnitz tower, the unfinished Bismarck tower and a steel fire lookout. The last of these stands on Gołęb…
Nature
Busko-Zdrój
On the north-eastern edge of Busko-Zdrój, by ul. Stawowa and right next to the village of Łagiewniki, the spa town's houses give way to the gypsum hills of Ponidzie. Zimne Wody ("Cold Waters") is a cluster of hills cut by small valleys, fi…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
The Golden Gate in Gdańsk is the ornate Mannerist gateway at the western end of Long Street (ulica Długa) and one of the classic photo spots of the Main Town. Polish kings once passed through it on the Royal Route when entering the city. I…
Cities & towns
Złotów
Złotów is a small county town in the historical Krajna region, on the border of Greater Poland and Pomerania, set on the Głomia river and five lakes: Miejskie (Złotowskie), Baba, Burmistrzowskie, Proboszczowskie and Zaleskie. People come f…
Nature
Ojców
The heart at the bottom of the basin is not a work of nature – it was carved into the stone, and the romantic name was given to the spring by local guides. The Spring of Love (Źródło Miłości) in the Prądnik Valley is a karst spring that de…
Nature
Pszczyna
Two bison from the forests of Pszczyna, the cow Planta and the bull Plebejer, were among the twelve animals from which the whole species was rebuilt after the First World War. The best place to learn their story is Jankowice near Pszczyna,…
Landscape parks
Soblówka
On the summit of Pilsko (1,557 m) dwarf mountain pine grows, and some scientists see traces of ancient glaciers here. Around it lies Żywiec Landscape Park, which its managers describe as the oldest landscape park in the Polish Carpathians.…