Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
Gdańsk
The National Museum in Gdańsk – Department of Early Art is the city's most important art museum, housed in a late-Gothic Franciscan monastery on Toruńska Street, a few minutes' walk from the Main Town. It is famous as the home of Hans Meml…
Museums
Hel
The Museum of Coastal Defence in Hel occupies the concrete bunkers of a former German coastal battery, "Schleswig-Holstein," hidden in the pine forest at the entrance to Hel, the town at the tip of Poland's Hel Peninsula, north of Gdańsk.…
Museums
Smołdzino
The Museum of the Slovincian Village in Kluki ("KLOO-kee") is an open-air museum on the shore of Lake Łebsko, on Poland's central Baltic coast, where reed-thatched, half-timbered farmhouses stand inside a living village on the very plots w…
Museums
Gdańsk
The National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk (Narodowe Muzeum Morskie, roughly "nah-ro-DOH-veh MOO-zeh-oom MOR-skyeh") is Poland's leading museum of seafaring, shipbuilding and life at sea. Its headquarters fill three rebuilt granaries on Ołowia…
Amusement parks
Władysławowo
On ul. Żwirowa in Władysławowo you can stand next to a life-size blue whale – the model is 34 metres long and is Ocean Park's signature sight. Across 20 hectares of this seasonal amusement park stand 1:1 models of marine animals, from shar…
Zoos
Gdynia
The map of the Baltic seabed in the Baltic Hall dates back to the opening of this place in 1971, and some of the wall displays from that time are still up to date. Gdynia Aquarium — the official name since 2003 of what visitors often call…
Museums
Gdynia
ORP Błyskawica (pronounced roughly "bwis-ka-VEE-tsa," Polish for "lightning") is a World War II destroyer preserved as a museum ship in Gdynia, moored by Kościuszko Square. She is the oldest surviving destroyer in the world and, according…
Museums
Puck
On the Rzucewo headland above the shallow Bay of Puck, Stone Age people hunted seals, caught fish and worked amber. Their settlement proved so important that archaeologists named an entire culture after the village – the Rzucewo culture. T…
Museums
Puck
On the edge of the Darżlubska Forest, in Sławutowo near Puck, a village of the early Slavs from the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries has been recreated. The settlement has eight wooden huts that show how people lived and worked a thousan…
Viewpoints
Malbork
The view of Malbork Castle from the left bank of the Nogat River is the classic picture of Poland's great Teutonic fortress (Malbork is said roughly "MAHL-bork"). From the west bank you see the whole complex at once: the High Castle, the M…
Museums
Sopot
The State Art Gallery in Sopot (Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, PGS) is one of the leading contemporary art venues in northern Poland, housed in the Spa House on Spa Square – just steps from the entrance to the famous Sopot pier. Its roughly 1,2…
National parks
Charzykowy
Bory Tucholskie National Park (say "BOR-ih too-HOL-skyeh") protects the heart of the Tuchola Forest, one of the largest woodlands in Poland, in the Pomeranian region near the town of Chojnice. It is a quiet, flat landscape of pine forest,…
Coast
Gdynia
Few Polish cities have a beach just minutes from their main street. In Gdynia you simply walk down from Kościuszko Square and you are on the sand, looking at the port, the South Pier and the Sea Towers skyscrapers. Śródmieście (City Centre…
Coast
Gdynia
In 1934, soldiers of an army bridge-building battalion from Modlin extended the wooden pier at Orłowo to 430 metres in just two months so that excursion steamers could moor by the beach — at the time Orłowo was competing with neighbouring…
Coast
Łeba
The beach at Łeba ("WEH-bah") is a broad ribbon of pale, fine sand on both sides of the harbor of this small resort on Poland's central Baltic coast, often counted among Poland's finest. To the west it turns into the wild shore of Słowińsk…
Coast
Rowy
The beach at Rowy has two personalities: west of the mouth of the Łupawa river the cliff coast begins, while to the east stretch the shifting dunes of Słowiński National Park. This small holiday village in Ustka municipality, between Ustka…
Coast
Puck
Thousands of years ago, people living on the headland at Rzucewo hunted seals and worked amber – an entire Neolithic culture, the Rzucewo culture, is named after this village. Today a narrow sandy beach runs below a wooded bluff on the Bay…
Coast
Sopot
Sopot Beach is the wide, sandy shoreline that runs the full length of Sopot, the spa town between Gdańsk and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast. With the famous wooden pier, the historic Grand Hotel and timber bathhouses as a backdrop, it is…
Coast
Władysławowo
Władysławowo is Poland's northernmost town, and its central beach stretches for about 3 km with more than 20 m of pale sand. The town sits at the base of the Hel Peninsula, between the open Baltic and the Bay of Puck, so in a few minutes y…
Monuments & mounds
Gdańsk
The Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 in Gdańsk – three soaring steel crosses with anchors on Solidarity Square, outside Gate No. 2 of the former shipyard – honors workers killed when the communist authorities crushed protest…
Coast
Ustka
Ustka began with its harbour: it was the medieval town of Słupsk that founded a landing place at the mouth of the Słupia, giving itself a window on the Baltic. Today fishing boats, yachts and excursion ships moor along the harbour canal, a…
Coast
Ustka
The Ustka seaside promenade is the walk that defines this small Polish Baltic resort: a raised boardwalk-style path running along the dunes from the lighthouse and harbor mouth eastward above a wide sandy beach. Ustka (say "OOST-kah"), onc…
Zoos
Władysławowo
The Bird House (Ptaszarnia) in the port of Władysławowo is the opposite of a typical parrot house. In a large covered tent at Hryniewieckiego 1, among tropical greenery, live more than a hundred small exotic birds – they do not land on you…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
The Main Town Hall in Gdańsk is the city's most recognizable landmark: a Gothic and Renaissance brick building whose slender tower, crowned by a gilded statue of King Sigismund Augustus, rises above Long Street and Long Market. Inside is t…