Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Churches & monasteries
Gdynia
On the Oksywie heights, on Płk. Stanisława Dąbka Street, stands the small church of St Michael the Archangel – the oldest surviving building in Gdynia and in the whole Tricity. Its story goes back to 1224 and a foundation by Duke Świętopeł…
Churches & monasteries
Somonino
A stone plaque on the east wall of the church in Goręczyno carries a Latin inscription: the building was raised in 1639 to the glory of the Holy Trinity and All Saints, in the time of Brother Kasper Kochelius, procurator of the Carthusians…
Landmarks
Sopot
The Crooked House in Sopot (Krzywy Domek, say "KSHIH-vih DOH-mek") is a building that looks as if it is melting: wavy walls, warped windows and a roof like a fairy-tale hat. It stands on Sopot's famous pedestrian street, Bohaterów Monte Ca…
Gardens
Człuchów
This wooded park on a former peninsula by the ruins of the Teutonic castle is named after a Prussian queen. Louise stopped in Człuchów in 1807 and was taken with the spot, and four years later the townspeople named it Louise's Hill. Today…
Technical monuments
Osetnik
Stilo Lighthouse in Osetnik, near Sasino on Poland's Baltic coast, is one of the most striking lighthouses in the country: a slender, sixteen-sided metal tower painted in red, white and black bands, hidden in pine forest on a dune about a…
Technical monuments
Ustka
Ustka Lighthouse is a red-brick tower from 1892 guarding the harbor entrance of Ustka (say "OOST-kah"), a seaside resort on Poland's central Baltic coast. Attached to a handsome red-brick pilot station with stepped gables, it is the town's…
Technical monuments
Władysławowo
Rozewie Lighthouse (ro-ZEV-yeh) stands on Cape Rozewie, among old beech woods a few kilometers west of Władysławowo on Poland's Baltic coast, north of Gdańsk. There are actually two towers you can climb: Rozewie I, lit in 1822 and still wo…
Technical monuments
Sopot
Sopot Lighthouse is a slender 30 m tower on Spa Square in Sopot, right next to the entrance to the famous wooden pier. Its story is one of the quirkiest on the Polish Baltic coast: the "lighthouse" is really a decorative chimney built for…
Landmarks
Sopot
Dark timber, steep roofs, little towers and carved dragons – the Southern Bathhouses look as if they had sailed onto Sopot beach straight from a Norwegian fjord. This wooden bathing complex from 1907 stands on the sand a few hundred metres…
Nature
Władysławowo
Between Jastrzębia Góra and Rozewie the coast is cut by a narrow ravine that takes you from the clifftop straight down to the beach. Lisi Jar – "Fox Ravine" – is only about 350 metres long, but in places it is 50 metres deep, and its slope…
Coast
Puck
In February 1920 General Józef Haller threw a platinum ring into the Bay of Puck – this was Poland's symbolic "wedding to the sea". More than a century later Puck's quays bring together three worlds: a fishing harbour, a yacht port and a n…
Old towns & squares
Gdynia
Gdynia's Modernist City Centre is Poland's newest UNESCO World Heritage Site: an entire downtown built between 1926 and 1939 around a brand-new seaport on the Baltic coast. Instead of a single monument, you get a walkable district of pale,…
Coast
Gdańsk
Brzeźno Pier is 136 m long and 7.2 m wide – modest next to Sopot's, but much quieter, and from the end you can watch ships heading into the port of Gdańsk. This wooden pier at the end of al. Jana Pawła II is one of the easiest ways to stan…
Coast
Gdynia
Today's pier in Orłowo is 180 metres long, but in 1934 it was more than twice that length and competed with Sopot. From the wooden deck you look out over the Gulf of Gdańsk, the Orłowo Cliff and the fishing end of Orłowo, where boats are h…
Old towns & squares
Sopot
Monciak (say "MON-chak"), officially Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street, is the main pedestrian promenade of Sopot and one of the busiest spots on the whole Polish Baltic coast. The car-free street runs downhill from the railway station and St…
Technical monuments
Bytów
Six brick arches on granite piers span the Boruja valley as if the builders had set out to give Bytów its own Roman aqueduct. The railway bridge of about 1884 is over 73 metres long and 16 metres high, and for years people said that no tra…
Zoos
Dębki
A tropical greenhouse a few steps from the beach, filled with hundreds of exotic butterflies that fly freely and land on visitors' hands, clothes and bags. The seasonal butterfly house at ul. Spacerowa 3a in Dębki opens only in the summer…
Zoos
Władysławowo
In the port of Władysławowo, on ul. Hryniewieckiego, a tropical microclimate reigns in summer, and hundreds of butterflies from all over the world fly freely among exotic plants. There are no display cases or terrariums – the insects settl…
Museums
Pelplin
In Pelplin you can see Poland's only copy of the Gutenberg Bible – the first major book printed in Europe with movable type, around 1455 in Mainz. Since March 2025 the original has been on permanent display. Before that, for more than 20 y…
Museums
Gdańsk
The Amber Museum in Gdańsk is the city's showcase for Baltic amber – "Baltic gold" – from drops of resin formed millions of years ago to contemporary jewelry. A branch of the Museum of Gdańsk, it has occupied the Great Mill, a medieval mil…
Museums
Gdynia
The Emigration Museum in Gdynia is the only museum in Poland devoted entirely to Polish emigration, set in the historic Maritime Station on the port's French Quay. Before World War II, transatlantic liners left from here for New York and S…
Museums
Gdańsk
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk is one of the largest and most ambitious history museums in Europe, telling the story of the war in the very city where it began. Its tilted red tower beside the Radunia Canal marks an exhibitio…
Museums
Gdynia
The Naval Museum in Gdynia (Muzeum Marynarki Wojennej) is Poland's main museum of naval history, set on the seaside boulevard opposite the city beach. Inside a modern building you'll find a multimedia exhibition on a century of the Polish…
Museums
Gdynia
The Gdynia City Museum is a municipal museum on the seaside boulevard that tells the story of one of Poland's youngest and most unusual cities – from a Kashubian fishing village to a booming interwar port, through World War II and the anti…