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Churches & monasteries
Koźmin Wielkopolski
The parish Church of Our Lady and St Lawrence on ul. Kościelna in Koźmin Wielkopolski is one of the most richly furnished churches in southern Greater Poland. Its 15th-century Gothic core was given a Baroque dress in the 17th century, and…
Churches & monasteries
Gniezno
The Holy Trinity parish church (fara) stands on ul. Farna, a few dozen metres south of Gniezno's Market Square, on Maiden Hill (Wzgórze Panieńskie). It is one of the oldest churches in the city and for centuries was the burghers' most impo…
Churches & monasteries
Giecz
The first church on this spot was so small that it held only about 30 worshippers. On its foundations, around the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, builders raised the present single-nave church of granite blocks, with walls 110 cm thic…
Churches & monasteries
Kórnik
All Saints' Church tells the second half of Kórnik's story of powerful families. The Górkas, Działyńskis and Zamoyskis lived in the castle, and here are their tombs: Renaissance monuments to the governors of Poznań and a Neoclassical tomb…
Monuments & mounds
Ślesin
On the road to Sompolno in Ślesin stands a Neoclassical triumphal arch that locals call Napoleon's Gate. It was built in 1811 (some sources say 1812) in honour of the French emperor, who had passed through Ślesin four years earlier. The Po…
Amusement parks
Borówiec
In the wooded village of Borówiec near Kórnik, inside a hall at ul. Uroczysko 1, a dozen trains run at the same time across more than 450 m² of H0-scale (1:87) layout. The operator bills it as the largest model railway in Poland, and it is…
Zoos
Leszno
The Leszno Mini Zoo is a small, free zoological garden in Millennium Park on 17 Stycznia Street, with a domestic animal enclosure and paddocks tucked among old trees. The history of Leszno's menageries goes back to 1903, and the zoo has oc…
Technical monuments
Wilkowyja
The Mill on the Lutynia (Młyn nad Lutynią, roughly "mlin nahd loo-TIH-nyon") in Wilkowyja is a restored wooden water mill on the edge of Jarocin in western Poland. It's famous among Polish readers thanks to a 1946 short story by Jarosław I…
Other
Pyzdry
In Pyzdry, an ordinary flight of town steps leads from the hill with the former Franciscan friary down to the marina on the Warta – except that the risers are covered in a colourful mosaic made of more than 50,000 pieces. Around 50 steps o…
Other
Poznań
On the blank wall of a corner house on Rynek Śródecki stands a little street that isn't really there: a green cottage with a butcher in the doorway, a trumpeter perched on a red roof and a black cat creeping along the ridge. The three-dime…
Other
Pyzdry
On the wall of the sports hall in Pyzdry a priest hovers in mid-air with a hole in his belly. He is Mikołaj, parish priest of Biechowo, struck by a stone ball during the siege of Pyzdry in 1383 – the first documented use of gunpowder artil…
Other
Pyzdry
On a concrete fence by the marina in Pyzdry, men are still bathing in the Warta, washerwomen are rinsing laundry, and a group of women is crossing a bridge that disappeared long ago. This large-format mural from 2021 turns old photographs…
Museums
Poznań
The Archaeological Museum in Poznań is housed in the Renaissance Górka Palace (Pałac Górków, say "PAH-wats GOOR-koof") at Wodna 27, a block south of the Old Market Square. Founded in 1857, it is one of Poland's oldest archaeological museum…
Museums
Gniezno
The Archdiocesan Museum in Gniezno (Muzeum Archidiecezji Gnieźnieńskiej) holds the treasury of Gniezno Cathedral, one of the oldest and richest church collections in Poland. In a building just behind the cathedral on Lech Hill you can see…
Museums
Poznań
In a long brick corridor of a former Prussian fortress, hidden among the trees of Poznań's Citadel Park, the story of one army and one battle is told. The Poznań Army Museum follows the soldiers of General Tadeusz Kutrzeba from mobilisatio…
Museums
Poznań
The Armored Warfare Museum in Poznań (Muzeum Broni Pancernej, roughly "MOO-zeh-oom BRO-nee pan-TSER-nay") holds one of Poland's largest collections of tanks and military vehicles, displayed in modern halls in the city's Wola district. A br…
Museums
Opatówek
The Museum of the History of Industry in Opatówek occupies the Fiedler family's neoclassical cloth factory, built in 1824–1826 – a building that is itself a monument of technology. Its timber frame survives across five storeys together wit…
Museums
Poznań
The Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznań (Muzeum Instrumentów Muzycznych) is a branch of the National Museum housed in historic townhouses at Stary Rynek 45, on the corner of Woźna Street. The museum describes itself as the only institu…
Museums
Osiek nad Notecią
The Museum of Folk Culture in Osiek nad Notecią (OH-shek nad no-TEH-chohn) is a peaceful open-air museum of village life in northern Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). Spread over 13 hectares (32 acres), it brings together 28 historic building…
Museums
Gołuchów
The idea of a museum devoted to forests was announced by the Galician Forestry Society as early as 1894, at the General National Exhibition in Lviv, but it took almost a century to open one. The Forestry Museum in Gołuchów was officially o…
Historic sites
Luboń
The Nazis called it the "camp of bloody revenge". Some 40,000 prisoners passed through the German penal and interrogation camp at Żabikowo, which operated from 1943 to 1945 on the edge of today's Luboń, just outside Poznań. Since 1979 the…
Technical monuments
Osieczna
On a hill by the road from Osieczna to Leszno, three wooden post mills have stood side by side for more than 250 years. The two oldest date from 1761 and 1763, and the museum says this is the only place in Poland with three original 18th-c…
Museums
Poznań
The National Museum in Poznań is one of Poland's leading art museums, and its main building on Plac Wolności houses the Gallery of Painting and Sculpture. It is the place to see Polish painting from Matejko to Malczewski, 20th-century art,…
Museums
Kalisz
The Kalisz Regional Museum is one of the oldest regional museums in Poland and the best place to get to know the history of Kalisz and the Prosna basin. In the building at 12 Kościuszki Street you can see, among other things, the denarius…