Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Zoos
Wrocław
The Afrykarium in Wrocław (say af-rih-KAR-yum, VROTS-wahv) is Poland's first oceanarium devoted entirely to Africa and the star attraction of Wrocław Zoo, one of the country's most visited sights. Inside a vast, partly underground building…
Monuments & mounds
Sobótka
On large granite rocks at the foot of Mount Ślęża, porcelain plaques show the photos and achievements of Poland's finest cyclists. The Cycling Walk of Fame in Sobótka is — as the wroclaw.pl portal points out — the only such avenue in the c…
Lower Silesian
Milicz
In the hamlet of Koruszka, about 2 km from Milicz, a small herd of alpacas lives on a historic farmstead with a brick house (Ceglany Dom) and a barn. The owners bought the place in 2011 and have been breeding alpacas since 2013, organising…
Thermal baths & water parks
Wrocław
Aquapark Wrocław on Borowska Street is the city's largest water park and one of the busiest in Poland, welcoming about 2.5 million visitors in 2025. Under one roof you will find leisure pools with a wave pool and lazy river, a set of water…
Gardens
Niemcza
In 2024 a beech tree from Wojsławice, known as the Heart of the Garden, won the European Tree of the Year contest. It is a fitting emblem for a place where more than 6,500 species and cultivars of trees and shrubs grow, plus several thousa…
Viewpoints
Wrocław
Bastion Sakwowy in Wrocław (roughly "SAHK-vo-vy"; long known locally as Partisans' Hill) is a 16th-century bastion of the old city walls that was turned into a romantic hilltop promenade in the 19th century. Following a major restoration c…
Fortifications
Złotoryja
The round stone tower with brick battlements stands by a busy street a few minutes from the market square and is the best preserved part of Złotoryja's medieval fortifications. Its entrance is not at street level but 6.6 metres up – the wa…
Churches & monasteries
Legnickie Pole
The Basilica and Abbey in Legnickie Pole (say "leg-NEETS-kyeh POH-leh"; German: Wahlstatt) is a Baroque former Benedictine monastery in Lower Silesia, built on the site of the Battle of Legnica — the 1241 clash in which a Polish-led army w…
Churches & monasteries
Trzebnica
The Basilica and Sanctuary of St. Hedwig in Trzebnica (say "tsheb-NEE-tsah") is Silesia's oldest shrine and the resting place of St. Hedwig of Silesia, patron saint of the region. A Romanesque brick church from the early 13th century, the…
Churches & monasteries
Wambierzyce
A monumental stone staircase leads up to the basilica in Wambierzyce: 56 steps, with 33 in the central flight symbolising the years of Christ's life. Above it rises a palace-like façade 52.5 m high, its balustrade lined with statues of the…
Churches & monasteries
Ziębice
In German the church was called "Münster auf dem Berge", the minster on the hill, and the town itself Münsterberg. St George's Basilica has towered over the town since the second half of the 13th century, with a separate, free-standing bel…
Churches & monasteries
Strzegom
This Gothic church is about 80 metres long, built of local granite and basalt, and its tower still holds a bell cast in 1318 – one of the oldest working church bells in Poland. The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Strzegom was built by…
Churches & monasteries
Bolesławiec
A slender 55-metre tower and a brick-and-white gable patterned with lozenges are Bolesławiec's landmark, visible from many streets in the Old Town. Inside the 15th-century Gothic hall lies a completely different world: Baroque altars, gild…
Fortifications
Ziębice
A tall, pale tower with a pointed brick cone rising above its battlements like a sharp cap – after the basilica, this is the most recognisable sight in Ziębice. The Paczków Gate dates from 1491 and is the only surviving gate of the medieva…
Museums
Wrocław
In August 1980, about 20,000 people gathered outside the gate of this depot while bus drivers went on strike inside. Today the same red-brick hall on ul. Grabiszyńska houses the Depot History Centre (Centrum Historii Zajezdnia), a museum t…
Mountains & peaks
Szczawno-Zdrój
Chełmiec made it onto the Crown of Polish Mountains list thanks to a mistake: the survey point was once placed on top of the observation tower, so the mountain "grew" to 869 m. Modern surveys give 850 m above sea level, and the title of hi…
Nature
Szklarska Poręba
On top of a granite rock group in the forest above Szklarska Poręba lies a boulder about 4 metres across that rests on just two points. That is why it can be gently set rocking – hence the name Chybotek, roughly "the wobbler". The rock has…
Ski resorts
Sienna
Czarna Góra Resort (say "CHAR-nah GOO-rah", meaning "Black Mountain") is a year-round ski resort in the Śnieżnik Massif of Poland's Sudetes. It sits by the village of Sienna, on the slopes of Czarna Góra (1,205 m / 3,953 ft). Open since 19…
Landmarks
Bolków
A pale tower with four slender corner turrets is the second landmark of the Bolków skyline after the castle. It stands at the junction of Kamiennogórska and Niepodległości streets, a few steps from the market square. This is the former Pro…
Old towns & squares
Karpacz
Walking the promenade in Karpacz takes about five minutes, yet this short stretch of ul. Konstytucji 3 Maja packs in Poland's shortest street, the country's highest town hall and a pavement with the bootprints of Polish Himalayan climbers.…
Amusement parks
Szklarska Poręba
Dinopark in Szklarska Poręba (pronounced roughly "SHKLAR-skah po-REM-bah") is a forest theme park in Poland's Karkonosze (Giant) Mountains, where a woodland trail leads past life-size dinosaur models set among spruce trees and boulders. Al…
Other
Ruda Sułowska
The Carp Days in the Barycz Valley (Dni Karpia w Dolinie Baryczy, say: DNEE KAR-pya) are an autumn food and nature festival in western Poland, built around one of Europe's largest complexes of fish ponds. Rather than a single event, it is…
Museums
Szklarska Poręba
The Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann House in Szklarska Poręba (SHKLAR-ska po-REM-ba) is a museum in the former home of two German writers, the Hauptmann brothers. Around 1900 it was the heart of an artists' colony in what was then Schreiberhau.…
Museums
Jelenia Góra
The Gerhart Hauptmann House in Jagniątków (say "yag-NYON-tkoof") is a museum in Villa Wiesenstein, the home of the German playwright and 1912 Nobel Prize winner from 1901 until his death in 1946. Jagniątków, formerly Agnetendorf, is now a…