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Technical monuments
Pilchowice
The Pilchowice Dam is Poland's tallest stone and arch dam: 62 m high and 290 m long at the crest. When it opened in 1912, it was the largest stone-and-concrete dam in Europe. Autumn 2026, however, is an unusual time to visit – because of r…
Technical monuments
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
One of the minds behind this dam was Gabriel Narutowicz – a hydraulic engineer who had designed a dam on the Aare in Switzerland and later became the first President of interwar Poland. Since 1936 the concrete dam on the Soła river in Międ…
Technical monuments
Solina
Solina Dam (pronounced roughly "so-LEE-na") is the tallest dam in Poland and one of the icons of the Bieszczady region in the country's southeastern corner. Its concrete wall, 82 m (269 ft) high and 664 m long, holds back the San River to…
Technical monuments
Czernichów
The earth dam at Tresna closes the Soła valley between the Żywiec Basin and the Little Beskids and has held back Lake Żywiec since the mid-1960s. It rises 39 m above the valley floor and is over 300 m long, and building it meant flooding e…
Technical monuments
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The Góra Żar reservoir (pronounced roughly "GOO-rah ZHAR") is an artificial lake on top of a mountain in southern Poland's Little Beskids, above the village of Międzybrodzie Bialskie. It is the upper reservoir of the Porąbka-Żar pumped-sto…
Technical monuments
Żnin
The Żnin Narrow-Gauge Railway (Żnin is pronounced roughly "zhneen") is a heritage tourist line in central Poland that runs 12 km from the town of Żnin through Wenecja and Biskupin to Gąsawa. Its tiny 600 mm gauge trains link the three best…
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Nowy Dwór Gdański
The Żuławy Narrow-Gauge Railway (Żuławska Kolej Dojazdowa, roughly "zhoo-WAHV-skah KO-leh doh-yah-ZDO-vah") is a heritage railway in northern Poland that runs through the flat Vistula Delta from Nowy Dwór Gdański to Sztutowo and Mikoszewo.…