Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Landmarks
Malbork
Malbork is all about the castle, yet a few hundred metres from the Teutonic walls stands the town's other medieval landmark: a Gothic town hall dating from around 1380. It is one of only a handful of buildings from the old town that surviv…
Nature
gmina Kosakowo
The Beka Nature Reserve (Rezerwat Beka, roughly "BEH-kah") protects rare coastal salt meadows on Puck Bay, at the old mouth of the Reda River, about 15 km (9 miles) north of Gdynia. Its caretakers at OTOP, the Polish BirdLife partner, call…
Nature
Rewa
Between Rewa and Mechelinki, right on the Bay of Puck, stretches a belt of wet meadows, reed beds and low dunes. This is the Mechelińskie Łąki reserve – more than 113 hectares protected since 2000 as a refuge for water and marsh birds. In…
Viewpoints
Smołdzino
Rowokół (say "ro-VO-koow") is a forested glacial hill beside the village of Smołdzino on Poland's central Baltic coast. At about 115 m above sea level it is the highest point of the Słowiński coastal plain and for centuries served sailors…
Nature
Łeba
The moving dunes of Słowiński National Park, near the Baltic resort of Łeba ("WEH-bah") in northern Poland, are the closest thing Europe has to a desert by the sea. Walls of pale sand up to about 40 meters high creep inland every year, bur…
Landmarks
Łeba
In a pine wood on the western bank of the Łeba river stands a lone fragment of brick wall. It is all that remains above ground of a medieval town – Old Łeba, destroyed by storms and buried by sand. Słowiński National Park calls the ruins o…
Historic sites
Gdańsk
The BHP Hall of the Gdańsk Shipyard (Sala BHP, pronounced "SAH-lah beh-hah-PEH") is a modest brick building inside the former shipyard where, on August 31, 1980, striking workers and the communist government signed the August Agreements –…
Other
Gdynia
Kościuszko Square (Skwer Kościuszki, roughly "kosh-CHOOSH-ko") is Gdynia's grand promenade, running from the main shopping street, Świętojańska, straight to the sea and the South Pier. This is where the city celebrates, strolls and takes p…
Hiking & tourist trails
Charzykowy
The Seven Lakes Stream (Struga Siedmiu Jezior, roughly "STROO-gah SHYED-myoo YEH-zhor") is a short, winding waterway in Bory Tucholskie National Park in northern Poland. Over 13.9 km it strings seven glacial lakes together like beads befor…
Monuments & mounds
Ustka
In the design she had a graceful tail and a slender figure, but once cast in bronze – as the sculptor himself complained – she was holding not a salmon but "a dead carp". Despite its stormy beginnings, the Ustka Mermaid (Syrenka Ustecka) s…
Castles
Gniew
The Gothic Castles Trail is a driving route of around 640 km linking the brick strongholds of the former Teutonic Order state and of the Warmian and Pomesanian bishoprics. It takes in twelve castles across Pomerania, Warmia and Masuria – f…
Other
Gdynia
Poland's largest musical theatre is not in Warsaw or Kraków but on Grunwaldzki Square in Gdynia. The Danuta Baduszkowa Musical Theatre has three stages seating more than 1,580 people in total, and in terms of capacity only the Grand Theatr…
Technical monuments
Gdynia
About 300 m off the beach at Babie Doły in Gdynia, a concrete ruin rises from the waters of the Gulf of Gdańsk like a ship run aground. This is the torpedo building – a torpedo assembly and test hall built by the Germans during the Second…
Landscape parks
Gdańsk
Tricity Landscape Park (Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "troy-MYAY-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is a green belt of forests above Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast, where ravines, beech woods and pine forest lie…
Fortifications
Gdańsk
Wisłoujście Fortress (Twierdza Wisłoujście, roughly "TVYER-dzah vee-swo-OO-ish-cheh") in Gdańsk is one of Europe's most remarkable surviving fortifications: a 15th-century brick lighthouse tower ringed by the four-bastion Fort Carré and a…
Coast
Dębki
At the western end of the beach in Dębki the Piaśnica river cuts through the sand and flows into the Baltic. A wooden footbridge and cycle bridge crosses the river mouth, and all around there is nothing but dunes, forest and a wide beach.…
Old towns & squares
Gdańsk
Long Street (ulica Długa) and the Long Market (Długi Targ) form the main axis of Gdańsk's Main Town and the heart of the Royal Route. The unofficial name recalls the ceremonial entries of Polish kings, a tradition begun in 1457 by Casimir…
Landscape parks
Wdzydze Kiszewskie
Wdzydze Landscape Park (Wdzydzki Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "vdzih-DZEH-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is a Kashubian lake and forest park in northern Poland, built around Lake Wdzydze. Pine woods, peat bogs, the Wda River and wide open…
Historic sites
Gdańsk
Westerplatte (pronounced "VES-ter-plah-teh") in Gdańsk is where World War II began in Europe. At dawn on September 1, 1939, a German battleship opened fire on a small Polish military depot on this peninsula at the mouth of the port, and it…
Viewpoints
Malbork
Even at the design stage, Malbork's 1905 water tower was meant to echo the medieval architecture of the Teutonic Knights' town. This Gothic Revival brick tower on Słowiański Square is about 30 m tall. Since its restoration it has been a fr…
Museums
Sopot
Please note (as of October 2026): the Sopot Museum in Claaszen Villa is being renovated. Work is due to finish at the end of 2026, and until then the collections are not on display – events and outdoor exhibitions take place elsewhere in t…
Museums
Łeba
The Rocket Launch Site at Rąbka ("ROMP-kah"), just west of the Baltic resort of Łeba in northern Poland, is a small open-air museum on the grounds of a secret German rocket test range from World War II. Hidden in the pine forest of Słowińs…
Coast
Gdańsk
Sobieszewo Island was created in a single night and given its final shape by workers with shovels and barges of stone. Gdańsk's largest and easternmost district is a strip of coastal forest and dunes between two mouths of the Vistula, with…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
Granary Island in Gdańsk (Wyspa Spichrzów, roughly "VIS-pah SPEEKH-zhoov") sits between the Motława River and its man-made channel, the New Motława, directly across from the Main Town waterfront. For centuries it held hundreds of grain war…