Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Technical monuments
Bydgoszcz
The Bydgoszcz Canal (Kanał Bydgoski, roughly "KAH-now bid-GOSS-kee") is the oldest working artificial waterway in Poland, a canal opened in 1774 that links the Vistula River basin with the Oder through the city of Bydgoszcz. For visitors,…
Lakes
Piła
The lake that people in Piła call Płotki is officially named Płocie – the popular name comes from the holiday centre on its shore. At its eastern end there is a lifeguarded bathing area with a sandy beach of almost 10,000 m², while on the…
Other
Radzionków
The seasonal MOSiR outdoor pool complex in Radzionków lies in Księża Góra park, on a hill 357 m above sea level. It has three pools: a 50-metre sports pool, a shallower pool for non-swimmers and a paddling pool with three slides. It is a g…
Historic sites
Sucha Beskidzka
A walk from the Renaissance castle in Sucha Beskidzka up a forest path ends at a small stone chapel with a tower topped by an onion dome. It stands at about 500 m above sea level on the south-eastern ridge of Kocurowa Góra, also called Mou…
Churches & monasteries
Busko-Zdrój
The little neo-Gothic church on the highest point of the Spa Park in Busko-Zdrój was built practically without permission. According to local history it went up in three weeks, while a tsarist official was away, and its builder paid for it…
Churches & monasteries
Goniądz
On a grassy hill behind St Agnes' Church stands a white chapel with a red roof, a tall wooden cross beside it. This is St Florian's Chapel, one of Goniądz's listed monuments. A short climb leads up to it, and the reward is an open view ove…
Churches & monasteries
Kęty
Kęty is where John Cantius was most likely born, on 24 June 1390 – professor at the Kraków Academy, saint and the town's patron. The Baroque church named after him stands near the site of his family home, and on 20 October 2024 it became a…
Churches & monasteries
Lublin
The Holy Trinity Chapel in Lublin is a Gothic royal chapel inside Lublin Castle whose walls and vaults are entirely covered with Byzantine-Ruthenian frescoes completed in 1418. A Western Gothic building painted in the style of an Orthodox…
Churches & monasteries
Zakopane
The Jaszczurówka Chapel (yash-choo-ROOF-kah), formally the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is one of the most beautiful wooden buildings in Zakopane and a textbook example of the "Zakopane style." It was designed by Stanisław Witkiewi…
Churches & monasteries
Milówka
When the Austrian authorities requisitioned church bells for the war effort in 1916, the people of Milówka stole the large bell of St Anthony's Chapel back from the municipal office and buried it. After the war it returned to its place – a…
Churches & monasteries
Stary Sącz
A few hundred metres from the Poor Clares' convent in Stary Sącz, beside a spring that legend says was found by St Kinga herself, stands a small masonry chapel from 1779. It replaced an older chapel and was built in thanksgiving for healin…
Churches & monasteries
Zawoja
By the road through Zawoja Policzne stands a small white chapel under a shingled roof that rises into an onion dome with a lantern. This is the Chapel of St John the Baptist, known locally as the brigands' chapel — tradition says it was fo…
Waterfalls
Wisła
The Rodło Cascades (Kaskady Rodła, roughly "kas-KAH-dee ROD-wah") are a chain of about 25 natural waterfalls and rock steps in the Biała Wisełka valley above the mountain resort of Wisła, in southern Poland's Silesian Beskids. The two bigg…
Museums
Wdzydze Kiszewskie
On the shore of Lake Gołuń in Wdzydze Kiszewskie stands the oldest open-air museum on Polish soil. It began in 1906 with a single cottage bought by a village teacher and a painter. Today it covers 22 hectares and holds more than 50 buildin…
Landscape parks
Reskowo
Kashubian Landscape Park (Kaszubski Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "kah-SHOOB-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is the heart of the Kashubian Lake District in northern Poland: 34 lakes larger than 10 hectares, including Lake Raduńskie Górne an…
Churches & monasteries
Koszalin
The oak figures of the apostles in the altar of Koszalin Cathedral were carved from wood felled in the winter of 1491–1492 in forests along the Vistula near Toruń – conservators established this through tree-ring dating. For a century and…
Churches & monasteries
Opole
Opole Cathedral, officially the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, is the main church of the Opole region and the tallest building in the city: its two neo-Gothic spires rise to about 73 meters. The red-brick Gothic hall church…
Churches & monasteries
Toruń
St. John's Cathedral in Toruń, formally the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, is the largest church in the city's UNESCO-listed Old Town and the place where Nicolaus Copernicus was baptized in 1473. Bu…
Churches & monasteries
Bydgoszcz
The Cathedral of Sts. Martin and Nicholas (Katedra św. Marcina i Mikołaja) is the oldest surviving building in Bydgoszcz, Poland – a Gothic brick parish church on the Brda River, just steps from the Old Market Square. Plain on the outside,…
Churches & monasteries
Wrocław
St. Mary Magdalene's Cathedral in Wrocław is a towering Gothic brick church just off the Market Square, and the Penitents' Bridge (also called the Witches' Bridge) slung between its two towers is one of the best viewpoints in the city. Fro…
Churches & monasteries
Kalisz
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kalisz (pronounced roughly "KAH-leesh") is the oldest church in one of Poland's oldest towns: a red-brick Gothic building founded in the 13th century and, since 1992, the cathedral of the Diocese of Kalisz. Behind…
Churches & monasteries
Białystok
Białystok Cathedral (pronounced "bee-AH-wih-stok"), formally the Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the main Catholic church of northeastern Poland and the most recognizable building in Białystok. Local…
Churches & monasteries
Bielsko-Biała
The tower of St Nicholas Cathedral is 61 m tall and has defined the skyline of Bielsko-Biała's Old Town for more than a century. The church on St Nicholas Square, just below the former ducal castle, has Gothic roots going back to 1443, yet…
Churches & monasteries
Elbląg
St. Nicholas Cathedral in Elbląg (say "EL-blonk") is a Gothic brick church whose 97-meter tower is the tallest church spire east of the Vistula River and the landmark you will see first as you approach this northern Polish city. Standing a…