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Museums
Witaszyce
In a Greater Poland village near Jarocin, within the grounds of a neo-Baroque palace from 1899, you'll find something you'd hardly expect here: a collection devoted to "Star Wars". Armour, figures, dioramas and Lego models share the palace…
Museums
Nowy Tomyśl
In the town park of Nowy Tomyśl stands a museum that its operator describes as the only one of its kind in Poland: devoted entirely to wicker and hops. It opened in May 1985 as a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture and Agri-Food I…
Museums
Gniezno
The Museum of Technical Heritage is a small private museum of motorcycles and old technology in the former cavalry barracks on Wrzesińska Street in Gniezno. It is run by enthusiasts from the ClassiC Gniezno Association, who restore the exh…
Museums
Złotów
The Museum of the Złotów Land (Muzeum Ziemi Złotowskiej; Złotów is pronounced roughly "ZWOH-toof") is a small regional museum in the town of Złotów in northern Greater Poland, housed in an 18th-century half-timbered townhouse. Its black-an…
Churches & monasteries
Sieroszewice
Ołobok, a village in the Sieroszewice municipality about 17 km east of Ostrów Wielkopolski, was home to a convent for more than six centuries – and although the site is sometimes called a Cistercian abbey, it was Cistercian nuns who lived…
Palaces
Jarocin
The Radoliński Palace in Jarocin (pronounced "yah-ROH-tseen") is a castle-like Gothic Revival mansion with battlements and turrets, set in a historic park in the middle of a small town in western Poland. It was designed by Friedrich August…
Palaces
Dobrzyca
Dobrzyca Palace (say "dob-ZHIH-tsah") is an elegant Neoclassical country house in the Greater Poland region of western Poland, built in 1798–1799 for General Augustyn Gorzeński, an aide to Poland's last king, Stanisław August. Designed by…
Palaces
Lewków
Lewków Palace ("LEV-koof"), just outside Ostrów Wielkopolski in western Poland, is one of the earliest classical-style palaces in the Greater Poland region and today a well-presented museum. Its design is attributed to Jan Christian Kamset…
Palaces
Rogalin
Rogalin Palace (say "ro-GAH-leen") is the former country seat of the aristocratic Raczyński family on the Warta River, about 20 km south of Poznań. Now a branch of the National Museum in Poznań, it combines three highlights in one visit: p…
Palaces
Śmiełów
Śmiełów Palace (roughly "SHMYEH-woof") is an elegant late-18th-century country house in Greater Poland that now holds the Adam Mickiewicz Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Poznań. Mickiewicz is to Poland roughly what Byron or Push…
Gardens
Poznań
The Poznań Palm House (Palmiarnia Poznańska, say "pahl-MYAR-nya") in Wilson Park is the largest palm house in Poland and one of the largest in Europe: more than 4,600 m² under glass, about 1,100 plant species and an aquarium with some 170…
Museums
Konin
The Mikroskala Model Park in Konin is a hall full of miniature worlds: from Columbus's caravels and the sinking Titanic to the Moon landing, dinosaurs and Star Wars. Open since May 2013, it displays more than 50 models, some of which visit…
Technical monuments
Gniezno
The Gniezno Roundhouse (Parowozownia Gniezno) is a historic steam locomotive depot next to the main railroad station in Gniezno, western Poland, and one of the largest surviving depot complexes in Europe. Two vast fan-shaped engine sheds,…
Museums
Poznań
Ulica ks. Posadzego on Poznań's Ostrów Tumski runs along the crest of a stronghold rampart from the time of Mieszko I, Poland's first historical ruler: its structure begins about a metre below the cobbles and reaches almost six metres down…
Museums
Poznań
The Croissant Museum in Poznań (Rogalowe Muzeum Poznania, roughly "ro-GAH-lo-veh moo-ZEH-oom") is a lively, hands-on show rather than a museum of display cases. Right on the Old Market Square, costumed hosts teach you how Poznań's famous S…
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…
Churches & monasteries
Licheń Stary
The golden dome of Licheń is visible from far across the flat plain near Konin, and the basilica tower rises to 141.5 m. The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń is now the largest church in Poland, yet the sanctuary began with a small picture h…
Churches & monasteries
Dąbrówka Kościelna
The Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Dąbrówka Kościelna (roughly "dom-BROOF-kah kosh-CHEL-nah") is a Marian pilgrimage church in the countryside of Greater Poland. It sits on a hill above a small village between Poznań and Gniezno, Pol…
Churches & monasteries
Piaski
A copy of Venice's Santa Maria della Salute rises above the fields of Greater Poland near Gostyń. Its dome is 17 m wide and 50 m high, and it is regarded as the largest dome in Poland. Strictly speaking, the basilica and the Oratorian mona…
Churches & monasteries
Kalisz
On 29 April 1945, Polish priests imprisoned in Dachau expected to be executed – instead, they lived to see liberation. Believing they owed their survival to St Joseph, more than 300 priests came to his image in Kalisz on a pilgrimage of th…
Museums
Jarocin
The Polish Rock Granary is a museum where loudspeakers replace silence. Spread over two floors of a former grain store in the centre of Jarocin, it tells the story of Polish rock music from the 1950s to the present day, built around the fe…
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…
Thermal baths & water parks
Poznań
Termy Maltańskie in Poznań (roughly TER-mih mahl-TAHN-skyeh, POZ-nahn) is one of Poland's largest swimming complexes: a water park, a sauna area and Olympic-standard sports pools on the north shore of Lake Malta. Some pools are fed with ge…
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…