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Attractions and interesting places in Poland

Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.

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Viewing Platform in Trzęsacz
Viewpoints

Viewing Platform in Trzęsacz

Trzęsacz

Trzęsacz is famous for the ruins of the Gothic church of St Nicholas, which for centuries have been losing their battle with the eroding cliff. It was precisely to protect that relic that the modern viewing platform was built in **2009** —…

Viewing Platforms at Pyrzowice Airport
Viewpoints

Viewing Platforms at Pyrzowice Airport

Siewierz

You don't need an airline ticket to watch jets take off up close. Katowice Airport in Pyrzowice — Poland's fourth airport by passenger numbers and aircraft movements — has placed two steel spotting platforms in the public area of the airpo…

Beach in Augustów
Lakes

Beach in Augustów

Augustów

The municipal beach in Augustów lies on Lake Necko, right where the Netta river leaves the lake — the same river that further on turns into the Augustów Canal. Founded in **1557** and named after King Sigismund Augustus, the town sits amon…

Beach in Czernichów
Lakes

Beach in Czernichów

Łodygowice

On the bank of the Soła river, just below the outflow of Lake Międzybrodzkie, lies a beach that in summer becomes one of the most popular bathing spots of the Żywiec region. The tidy grassy slope descends to a sheltered cove, and the whole…

Orłowo Beach in Gdynia
Coast

Orłowo Beach in Gdynia

Sopot

Below the wooden pier, beneath the cliff wall and next to the fishing harbour unfolds the life of a beach often singled out as the finest in the Tri-City. Orłowo combines the best the Polish coast has to offer: sand, a cliff, forest and a…

Beach in Kołobrzeg
Coast

Beach in Kołobrzeg

Kołobrzeg

Kołobrzeg, at the mouth of the Parsęta, is the largest resort of Western Pomerania and a town with the status of a health resort: respiratory, circulatory and joint ailments are treated here using local brines and therapeutic mud. More tha…

Beach in Międzyzdroje
Coast

Beach in Międzyzdroje

Międzyzdroje

Międzyzdroje lie on the island of Wolin, on the Bay of Pomerania, and to the east and south the town borders the Wolin National Park — so the beach is framed by forest and moraine hills. Widened in recent years, broad and covered in light,…

Beach in Rzucewo
Coast

Beach in Rzucewo

gmina Kosakowo

Rzucewo is a small Kashubian village on the Bay of Puck, between Reda and Puck. Its beaches are not wide, but rarely crowded: from the land side they are separated by the forest of the Coastal Landscape Park, and the bay's water is shallow…

Beach in Władysławowo
Coast

Beach in Władysławowo

gmina Jastarnia

Władysławowo lies at the base of the Hel Peninsula and is the northernmost town in Poland. Its beach ranks among the loveliest on the coast: wide, with light, clean sand, a sandy seabed and a gentle entry into the water. After storms, ambe…

Augustinian Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Żagań
Churches & monasteries

Augustinian Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Żagań

gmina Żary

The Gothic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary at Klasztorny Square 2 in Żagań is the heart of the former Augustinian complex: next to it stand the monastery of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, the monastic granary and the ko…

Podlaskie Stork Trail
Nature

Podlaskie Stork Trail

Białowieża

The Podlaskie Stork Trail is a cycling route of **412.5 km**, laid out in **2002** through the nesting heartlands of the white stork. It links four national parks — Białowieża, Narew, Biebrza and Wigry — and belongs to the international Gr…

Opatów Underground Route
Caves

Opatów Underground Route

Opatów

The Opatów Underground is a complex of old merchant cellars and town storage rooms beneath the market-square townhouses, turned into a tourist route opened in **1984**. The route runs for about **500 metres** on three levels beneath the ma…

The Underground of Książ Castle
Fortifications

The Underground of Książ Castle

Wałbrzych

Half a kilometre of concrete corridors and halls, carved 50 metres beneath the Honour Courtyard of the third-largest castle in Poland. The underground of Książ is an unfinished Second World War project, opened to visitors only in 2019 — an…

The Rzeszów Cellars Underground Route
Historic sites

The Rzeszów Cellars Underground Route

Rzeszów

Below Rzeszów's market square, at a depth of half a metre to 10 metres, stretches a labyrinth of 15 corridors and 25 cellars, dug into the loess between the 14th and 18th centuries. The 369-metre "Rzeszowskie Piwnice" route runs across thr…

The Kłodzko Underground Tourist Route
Historic sites

The Kłodzko Underground Tourist Route

Kłodzko

Six hundred metres of corridors run beneath the old town of Kłodzko at the foot of the fortress, dug by the town's inhabitants since the 13th century. The underground served as goods warehouses and craft workshops, the famous Kłodzko beer…

The Olkusz Underground
Museums

The Olkusz Underground

Olkusz

Beneath the market square of Olkusz — the town called the "silver town" — lie the undergrounds of the former capital of lead and silver mining. The route has two parts: under the Gothic town hall and under the County Office building, where…

Pogoria III Reservoir
Lakes

Pogoria III Reservoir

Będzin

Pogoria III is the best-known of the four Pogoria reservoirs in Dąbrowa Górnicza. Like the neighbouring lakes, it was created in flooded sand pits, where sand once used to be extracted for the backfilling of local coal mines. Today it is t…

Pogoria IV (Kuźnica Warężyńska) Reservoir
Lakes

Pogoria IV (Kuźnica Warężyńska) Reservoir

Będzin

Kuźnica Warężyńska — colloquially Pogoria IV — is the largest reservoir of the Pogoria complex: 560 hectares of water stretching 8 km long and up to 3 km wide. It was created in 2005 on the site of a disused sand mine of the same name, mai…

The Palowice Lake District (Pojezierze Palowickie)
Lakes

The Palowice Lake District (Pojezierze Palowickie)

Chudów

Sometimes called the "Masuria of Silesia", the Pojezierze Palowickie is a group of fish ponds in the valley of the Jesionka, north of Żory, between Szczejkowice and the village of Palowice, from which it takes its name. The waters lie with…

Polana Włosienica (Włosienica Clearing)
Nature

Polana Włosienica (Włosienica Clearing)

Brzegi

Polana Włosienica lies at the bottom of the Rybi Potok Valley in the High Tatras, at about 1,300 m above sea level, along the Oswald Balzer Road — the asphalt route leading to Morskie Oko. Only 1.5 km separates it from the shore of the mos…

Polonia Wax Museum in Kraków
Museums

Polonia Wax Museum in Kraków

Kraków

At Floriańska 32, one of the busiest streets of Kraków, operates the Polonia Wax Museum — opened in 2016, inspired by the organisation of World Youth Day in Kraków. The museum, previously located by the Market Square, brings together wax f…

The Monument of the Uprising Act on St. Anne's Hill
Monuments & mounds

The Monument of the Uprising Act on St. Anne's Hill

Żyrowa

Above the stone amphitheatre, on a limestone slope opposite the sanctuary of St. Anne, stands the Monument of the Uprising Act — a work by Xawery Dunikowski, unveiled on 19 June 1955 before crowds filling the amphitheatre walls. It is the…

Pomnik Leszka Białego w Marcinkowie Górnym
Monuments & mounds

Pomnik Leszka Białego w Marcinkowie Górnym

Wenecja

Nagi książę pędzący konno ze strzałą w plecach — ten nietypowy pomnik przypomina o jednym z najbardziej dramatycznych wydarzeń średniowiecznej Polski.

Pomnik Witolda Skórzewskiego w Leśniewie
Monuments & mounds

Pomnik Witolda Skórzewskiego w Leśniewie

gmina Łubowo

15–30 min · Free entry

W głębi Lasów Czerniejewskich, zaledwie kilkadziesiąt metrów od leśnego traktu, stoi biały pomnik zwieńczony krzyżem. Nie prowadzi do niego reprezentacyjna aleja, nie ma tu tłumów ani kasy biletowej. Jest las, cisza i miejsce, w którym **3…