Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Nature
Poznań
Between the housing blocks of Piątkowo and the new estates of Naramowice lies the small Piątkowo Wood, and inside it one of the smallest nature reserves in Poznań. Żurawiniec covers just 1.67 ha and protects a peat bog in a glacial trough.…
Nature
Łopuchówko
Nine-leaved toothwort is a plant of mountain beech forests, usually found in the Carpathians and the Sudetes. Yet in Zielonka Forest, a short drive from Poznań, it grows at its northernmost site in Poland – and the only documented one in t…
Nature
Uchorowo
Śnieżycowy Jar (roughly "shnyeh-ZHY-tso-vy yar"), the Snowflake Ravine Nature Reserve, is a small wooded gully about 15 miles north of Poznań, in western Poland, where thousands of spring snowflakes bloom each March. It is one of the few l…
Landscape parks
Rogalin
Rogalin Landscape Park (Rogaliński Park Krajobrazowy; Rogalin is pronounced "ro-GAH-leen") protects a stretch of the Warta River valley about 12 miles south of Poznań, in western Poland. It is famous for one of Europe's largest groups of c…
Old towns & squares
Gniezno
Gniezno Market Square (Rynek, say "RIH-nek") is the heart of the old town in Gniezno, a small, friendly square lined with pastel townhouses, from which cobbled Tumska Street runs straight up to the cathedral on Lech Hill. Rebuilt after a g…
Old towns & squares
Pyzdry
In 1383, during the siege of Pyzdry by the troops of Duke Siemowit IV of Masovia, chroniclers recorded the first use of a cannon on Polish soil. Since January 2024 a sculpture of three medieval gunners with their cannon has commemorated th…
Churches & monasteries
Rataje
Górka Klasztorna near Łobżenica is regarded as the oldest Marian sanctuary in Poland. According to tradition, in 1079 the Virgin Mary with the Child appeared here to a shepherd at a well in the Górka Grove. Today it is a complex with a bar…
Zoos
Poznań
Poznań's zoo began as a birthday joke. In 1871 the regulars of a restaurant by the railway station, members of a skittles club, decided to celebrate their president's fiftieth birthday by giving him… animals. From a goat, a sheep, a peacoc…
Technical monuments
Poznań
Stary Browar ("STAH-ri BRO-var," the Old Brewery) in Poznań is a shopping, arts and business center at Półwiejska 42, built inside the red-brick halls of the 19th-century Hugger brewery. Its "50:50" concept, half business and half art, tur…
Old towns & squares
Poznań
Poznań's Old Market Square (Stary Rynek, say "STAH-ri RIN-ek") is the historic heart of one of Poland's oldest cities and among the most colorful squares in Central Europe. A Renaissance town hall with mechanical goats, a row of painted me…
Landmarks
Wierzenica
The Trail of Wooden Churches around Zielonka Forest (Szlak kościołów drewnianych wokół Puszczy Zielonka) is a signposted driving route that links 12 wooden village churches just northeast of Poznań in western Poland. Built between the 16th…
Other
Wągrowiec
Every day at noon and after dark, Wągrowiec's market square turns into a small stage: the water in the fountain dances to music, and in the evening coloured lights join in. The dancing fountain was built during the revitalisation of the sq…
Nature
Mieleszyn
In the middle of the fields at Sokolniki near Gniezno lies a boulder that, according to local legend, was meant to crush a church under construction. The Mieleszyn municipality calls it the area's greatest curiosity: Tarcza Olbrzyma – the…
Greater Poland
Poznań
The Wartostrada is a network of paved walking and cycling paths along both banks of the Warta River, letting you cross Poznań by the water, away from the streets. The whole route along the Warta and Cybina rivers is about 14 km long and ru…
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
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
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
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…
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…
Castles
Koło
On an artificial mound in a bend of the Warta river, just outside the town of Koło, stand the brick ruins of a royal castle from the time of Casimir the Great. Since 2026 there has been a viewing terrace on top of the surviving tower, and…
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…