Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Viewpoints
Malbork
Even at the design stage, Malbork's 1905 water tower was meant to echo the medieval architecture of the Teutonic Knights' town. This Gothic Revival brick tower on Słowiański Square is about 30 m tall. Since its restoration it has been a fr…
Landmarks
Kraków
The Town Hall Tower in Kraków (Polish: Wieża Ratuszowa, "VYEH-zhah rah-too-SHOH-vah") is the Gothic tower rising from the Main Market Square – the only part of the medieval town hall that survived its demolition in the 19th century. About…
Viewpoints
Lublin
The Trinitarian Tower in Lublin is the Neo-Gothic bell tower of the city's cathedral and the highest viewpoint in the Old Town: from its terrace, about 40 m (130 ft) up, you can see Lublin in all four directions, from the castle to the mai…
Landmarks
Szczawnica
The Nad Zdrojami Villa, also known as the House over the Springs, stands on the eastern side of Dietl Square in the heart of spa-town Szczawnica. Since the 19th century, spa guests have been served the local carbonated waters here, right a…
Museums
Zakopane
Karol Szymanowski called it his "beloved highlander's cottage". The composer lived in the wooden Villa Atma on Kasprusie Street, a few minutes' walk from Krupówki, from 1930 to 1935, and finished his ballet Harnasie here. Today it houses t…
Museums
Sopot
Please note (as of October 2026): the Sopot Museum in Claaszen Villa is being renovated. Work is due to finish at the end of 2026, and until then the collections are not on display – events and outdoor exhibitions take place elsewhere in t…
Museums
Maków Podhalański
A single-storey villa with pale rusticated corners, a row of round-arched windows and a porch at the entrance looks more like an estate manager's house than a museum. Yet this is where Maków Podhalański keeps its memory, at 24 ul. 3 Maja:…
Museums
Gorzów Wielkopolski
The Lubusz Museum in Gorzów opened on 8 September 1945 as the first museum in the lands that became part of Poland after the Second World War. Since 1947 it has been based in the Schroeder Villa, an early 20th-century industrialist’s resid…
Museums
Żarki
By the churchyard square of the Leśniów sanctuary, in a brick cellar with early 20th-century arched vaults, lies a slice of the Jurassic seabed. The Exhibition of Jurassic Fossils and Minerals displays around 1,000 original specimens, most…
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…
Technical monuments
Rybnik
In the Głowacki shaft engine house stands a steam winding engine that ran without a break for 108 years, until 2008. Its younger sibling at the Kościuszko shaft still works and starts up for visitors every Sunday, while former mine engine…
Museums
Warszawa
Zachęta National Gallery of Art (pronounced "zah-HEN-tah") is Poland's leading contemporary art gallery, housed in an elegant 1900 building on Małachowski Square in central Warsaw. There is no permanent display: exhibitions by Polish and i…
Museums
Częstochowa
A white, single-storey house with a tall tiled roof and a wooden porch sits in Staszic Park below Jasna Góra, looking as if it had been moved here from a village. In fact it was never a farm: it is an exhibition pavilion from 1909, designe…
Landmarks
Lądek-Zdrój
A green dome topped with a lantern rises above the centre of Lądek-Zdrój, and beneath it warm water has been flowing for more than three hundred years. The Wojciech spa house was built in 1678–1680, modelled on the Turkish baths of Buda, a…
Castles
Łęknica
The New Castle in Bad Muskau stands a few hundred metres across the border, but you can walk to it from the Polish town of Łęknica through the park – it is the centrepiece of Muskau Park (Park Mużakowski), inscribed on the UNESCO World Her…
Castles
Czerna
Above the entrance to Czerna Castle, on a stone plaque in the portal, the motto of its first owner has been visible for more than 450 years: “Alles mit bedacht” – “everything with forethought”. This Renaissance residence on the Oder, in th…
Castles
Stare Drawsko
Drahim Castle (Zamek Drahim) in Stare Drawsko is a 14th-century Gothic stronghold built by the Knights Hospitaller on a narrow strip of land between two lakes in northwestern Poland. Today it is a picturesque ruin with a re-created medieva…
Castles
Szamotuły
Behind the castle in Szamotuły stands a brick tower where, according to tradition, Halszka of Ostroh – a princess and granddaughter of King Sigismund the Old, forced to marry Łukasz III Górka – was held for 14 years. Górka Castle is now a…
Castles
Odrzykoń
Kamieniec Castle in Odrzykoń (kah-MYEH-nyets, oh-jeh-KOHN) is a romantic Gothic ruin on a rock at 452 m above sea level, a few kilometers from the town of Krosno in southeastern Poland. A feud between two families over a wall that split th…
Castles
Piotrków Trybunalski
The Royal Castle in Piotrków Trybunalski (pronounced "PYOT-kuv trih-boo-NAL-skee") is a Gothic-Renaissance residential tower of brick and sandstone built in 1512-1519 for King Sigismund I the Old. It served as the king's residence during p…
Castles
Poznań
The Royal Castle in Poznań (roughly "POZ-nahn") crowns Przemysł Hill, a few minutes' walk from the Old Market Square in this western Polish city. It was the seat of Przemysł II, crowned King of Poland in 1295, and today houses the Museum o…
Castles
Sanok
Sanok Royal Castle (Sanok is pronounced roughly "SAH-nock") is a Renaissance residence on a bluff above the San River in southeastern Poland, and today it houses the Historical Museum in Sanok. Its biggest draw is the world's largest colle…
Castles
Głogów
A round brick tower crowned with a metal crown is the oldest part of a castle that hosted King Casimir IV Jagiellon, the future King Sigismund the Old and, three times, Napoleon. The Castle of the Dukes of Głogów was almost completely dest…
Castles
Ciechanów
Ciechanów Castle (Zamek Książąt Mazowieckich), the Castle of the Dukes of Masovia, is a Gothic red-brick fortress built in the early 15th century on the Łydynia river. Two massive round towers, walls about 10 m high and a spacious courtyar…