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Churches & monasteries
Kamień Pomorski
Kamień Pomorski Cathedral (pronounced roughly "KAH-myen po-MOR-skee"), formally the Co-Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, is one of the oldest and most important churches on Poland's Baltic coast and a national Monument of History. For alm…
Churches & monasteries
Łomża
Łomża Cathedral is a textbook example of Masovian Gothic – with a few surprises. The side aisles hide crystal vaults, rare in this part of Poland; the aisles hold Renaissance tombs from the workshop of Santi Gucci; and set into the wall of…
Churches & monasteries
Łowicz
Łowicz Cathedral (say "WO-veech"), formally the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St. Nicholas, stands on the Old Market Square of a small town in central Poland and is nicknamed the "Wawel of Mazovia". It is the burial place of twe…
Churches & monasteries
Nysa
In 1619 a census of parishioners decided whether the church would stay Catholic or pass to the Protestants – the Catholics won by just three people. The Basilica of St James and St Agnes in Nysa, which locals have called the "cathedral" fo…
Churches & monasteries
Pelplin
Pelplin Cathedral (say "PEL-pleen") – the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption – is a former Cistercian abbey church and one of the largest brick Gothic churches in Poland. This small town in the Kociewie region, south of Gdańsk, hides an…
Churches & monasteries
Tarnów
Tarnów Cathedral – the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – is the centerpiece of Tarnów's Old Town and home to some of the finest Renaissance tomb sculpture in Central Europe. Its red-brick bulk and 72-meter tow…
Churches & monasteries
Zamość
Zamość Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of the Resurrection and St. Thomas the Apostle, is a Renaissance church founded by Jan Zamoyski and designed by Bernardo Morando, the Italian architect behind the whole town of Zamość (say "ZAH-mosh…
Churches & monasteries
Frombork
Frombork Cathedral (Frombork is pronounced roughly "FROM-bork") is a vast Gothic brick church on Cathedral Hill above the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland, and the burial place of Nicolaus Copernicus. The astronomer spent much of his work…
Churches & monasteries
Włocławek
Włocławek Cathedral (say "vwo-TSWAH-vek"), the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption on Copernicus Square, is one of the oldest and most important Gothic churches in Poland. Its soaring red-brick spires rise above the Vistula River in a mid…
Churches & monasteries
Gorzów Wielkopolski
At the top of the high altar in Gorzów cathedral, a whale swallows the prophet Jonah, a scene rarely found in Polish churches. It is just one detail of the oldest building in Gorzów Wielkopolski: a brick church from the late 13th century t…
Viewpoints
Międzyzdroje
Kawcza Góra (roughly "KAHF-chah GOO-rah") is a beech-covered hill in Międzyzdroje ("myen-dzih-ZDROY-eh"), a seaside resort on Poland's Baltic coast, with a viewpoint perched above a sea cliff. It rises 61 m (200 ft) above the Pomeranian Ba…
Technical monuments
Gołdap
At the top of Piękna Góra near Gołdap there is a café in which the whole room slowly turns on its axis. A full rotation takes about 50 minutes, so over one coffee and a slice of cake you can take in the entire panorama: Gołdap and its lake…
Landscape parks
Kazimierz Dolny
Kazimierz Landscape Park (Kazimierski Park Krajobrazowy) is the oldest protected landscape park in Poland's Lublin region, wrapped around the historic river town of Kazimierz Dolny (say "KAH-zhee-myesh DOL-nee"). It protects a wild, unregu…
Mountains & peaks
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
Most visitors end their outing at Żar, beside the reservoir of the pumped-storage power station. Yet about an hour's return walk further on lies Kiczera, also called Kiczora – a peak whose meadows offer even more than Żar itself: the reser…
Other
Tykocin
Kiermusy takes its name from a miller: in 1573 a townsman called Marys Kiermus took over a mill near Tykocin, and for years the settlement was known as Kiermus's Mill. Today a private complex in Old Polish style stands here on the Narew Ri…
Historic sites
Cieszyn
On Hażlaska Street in Cieszyn, a few hundred metres apart, lie two Jewish cemeteries. The older, founded in 1647, is among the oldest Jewish burial grounds in Poland and one of the few that remained in continuous use for more than 250 year…
Historic sites
Józefów
On a hillside off Kamienna Street, on the way to the old quarries, lies the Jewish cemetery – the kirkut – of Józefów in the Biłgoraj district. On about 1 ha nearly 400 matzevot (tombstones) or their fragments survive, carved from the same…
Historic sites
Bolesław
On the road from Sławków to Krzykawka, about 2.5 km from Sławków's market square, lies a Jewish cemetery where, according to the county authorities, more than 300 gravestones survive. It formally belonged to the Jewish community of Sławków…
Landmarks
Tarnów
The original gate of Tarnów's Jewish cemetery, through which thousands of Jews passed during the Holocaust, has been held since 1991 by the Holocaust Museum in the United States — a copy stands in its place. Behind it lies one of the oldes…
Landmarks
Żarki
On a sandy hill on Polna Street in Żarki, among pines and birches, stand more than 700 matzevot, traditional Jewish gravestones. This is one of the largest surviving Jewish cemeteries in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the limestone Jura re…
Landmarks
Zawiercie
Behind a brick wall on Piaskowa street in Kromołów, now a district of Zawiercie, stand around 920 matzevot (Jewish headstones) – the oldest commemorates Sulka, daughter of Avraham Hirsh, who died on 21 August 1730. According to Poland's Na…
Nature
Sokoły
Between Waniewo and Śliwno the Narew does not flow in a single channel – it splits into a maze of branches, oxbows and reed beds. A wooden boardwalk cuts straight across this marshy valley, and you cross the open water yourself on floating…
Viewpoints
Owińska
The Owińska footbridge (Owińska is pronounced roughly "oh-VEEN-skah") is a striking cable-stayed pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Warta River just north of Poznań, in western Poland. Opened in 2023, it has a viewing tower built into it…
Churches & monasteries
Prudnik
On Piastowska Street, in the western part of Prudnik's Old Town, stands the Baroque monastery complex of the Brothers Hospitallers – an order that has been caring for the sick here since 1766. It began as a story of gratitude: a colonel, b…