Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Historic sites
Kruszwica
The Piast Trail is a tourist route through Greater Poland and Kuyavia that retraces the journeys of Poland's first rulers and their courts between the strongholds that served as their capitals. It runs from Poznań via Ostrów Lednicki and G…
Historic sites
Strzelno
Poland's Romanesque Route is more a signposted network of monuments than a single trail: churches, rotundas, abbeys and the remains of palaces from the time of the first Piast rulers, between the 11th and 13th centuries. The best place to…
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…
Historic sites
Łańcut
The Lubomirski Family Seats Trail links places where one of the most powerful families of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had residences or founded churches, monasteries and schools. The route was devised and organised by the Region…
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…
Historic sites
Gniezno
Lech Hill in Gniezno (Wzgórze Lecha) is where Poland, quite literally, began. This low rise above a lake in west-central Poland held the stronghold of the early Piast dukes, the seat of the country's first archbishop and the cathedral wher…
Historic sites
Żywiec
Everyone knows Janosik and the Tatra highlands, but the creator of the Carpathian Outlaws' Trail (Szlak Zbójników Karpackich) argues that the real capital of Carpathian banditry was the Żywiec region. That idea grew into a cultural route t…