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Churches & monasteries
Trzebnica
The brick tower on Drzymały Street is older than the neo-Gothic church it now belongs to. It is a remnant of a medieval church from the 15th century, while the church itself went from Lutheran place of worship to warehouse to Trzebnica's s…
Churches & monasteries
Ziębice
On the western edge of the old town, on ul. Wałowa, stands a church that from above looks like a cross with equal arms. It belonged to the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, who ran a hospital in Ziębice from the second half of the 13…
Churches & monasteries
Karpacz
Vang Stave Church in Karpacz is a medieval Norwegian wooden church that has stood on a mountainside in southwest Poland since the 1840s. Built in the late 12th or around the turn of the 13th century in Vang, Norway, it was bought by the Ki…
Churches & monasteries
Lubomierz
The soaring three-storey façade of this church looks down on Lubomierz from the town's highest point. It is the heart of the former Benedictine convent where the town's history began, and one of the grandest Baroque churches in this part o…
Churches & monasteries
Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
The former Cistercian church in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki is 70 m long and 24 m high, and its aisles all rise to the same height – a Gothic hall church, a rarity among Cistercian buildings. Inside stands one of the tallest wooden altarpieces in…
Mountains & peaks
gmina Stronie Śląskie
Kowadło (989 m above sea level) is a border summit in the southern part of the Golden Mountains (Góry Złote), rising above the village of Bielice in the Stronie Śląskie municipality. It lies within the Śnieżnik Landscape Park and represent…
Technical monuments
Krośnice
At weekends the steam locomotive Px48-1907, built in 1955 and once used on the Żuławy Narrow-Gauge Railway, puffs through the park in Krośnice. The Krośnice Narrow-Gauge Railway is one of the few working park railways in Poland. Its 750 mm…
Nature
Trzebnica
A short walk from the Basilica of St Hedwig, the Beech Forest begins – locals also call it Pustelnik, "the Hermit". Under tall beeches stand the chapels of an 18th-century Calvary, a brick forest church from 1886, a Lourdes grotto and the…
Churches & monasteries
Legnica
In an octagonal chapel beside St John's Church in Legnica, four alabaster figures hold a conversation that never ends. They are the last of the Piasts, the dynasty that founded Poland: fifteen-year-old Duke George William, his parents and…
Museums
Karpacz
Henryk Tomaszewski, founder of the Wrocław Pantomime Theatre, brought toys home from every tour – dolls, teddy bears, figurines. That travelling collection became the Municipal Toy Museum in Karpacz, housed since 2012 in the restored forme…
Amusement parks
Kłodzko
On the edge of Kłodzko, opposite the shopping centre on the road to Nowa Ruda, Europe has been rebuilt at a scale of 1:25. Minieuroland is a miniature park that opened in July 2015. More than 40 hand-made models stand among flower beds, wh…
Lakes
Wrocław
Grunwald Bridge in Wrocław (Most Grunwaldzki, roughly grun-VAHLD-skee; the city is VROTS-wahf) is a 1910 steel suspension bridge over the Oder River and one of the most photographed landmarks in this western Polish city. Its chunky granite…
Other
Wrocław
On the north-western edge of Wrocław a white pylon 122 metres high, the tallest in Poland, rises above the Oder. Hanging from it, the Rędziński Bridge carries the A8 motorway over the river and over Rędzin Island with its historic locks. I…
Landmarks
Wrocław
Tumski Bridge in Wrocław (say "TOOM-skee") is the green steel bridge that carries you across the Oder River onto Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island), the oldest part of the city. Known locally as the Lovers' Bridge, it frames the twin spires…
Fortifications
Ząbkowice Śląskie
The only surviving section of Ząbkowice Śląskie's old moat is now a pond in the town park, and close by stands the Pigeon Tower, one of the best-preserved parts of the town's fortifications. In the 16th century the town was ringed by two l…
Fortifications
Świdnica
In the Middle Ages Świdnica was the capital of the Duchy of Świdnica-Jawor, and for centuries it sat behind one of the strongest rings of walls in Silesia. By the 17th century the circuit had three lines of defences, seven gates and more t…
Museums
Wrocław
The Museum of Architecture in Wrocław is the only museum of its kind in Poland, housed in the late-Gothic buildings of a former Bernardine (Franciscan) monastery a few minutes from the Market Square. The setting alone is worth the visit: a…
Museums
Milicz
For nearly half a century, glass Christmas baubles were hand-blown and hand-painted in Milicz and shipped to every continent; one of the customers is said to have been Walt Disney himself. The factory closed in 2008, but its pattern archiv…
Museums
Bolesławiec
Since April 2024 the Museum of Ceramics in Bolesławiec has had a new home: the restored Pückler mansion at ul. Zgorzelecka 28/29, set in a revitalised historic park. It is the best place to understand how Bolesławiec stoneware became famou…
Museums
Ziębice
The town hall in the middle of Ziębice’s market square has housed a museum since 1931, and for half a century it was the only museum in Poland specialising in household equipment. According to the museum, its collection of irons is the lar…
Historic sites
Rogoźnica
In Rogoźnica near Strzegom, next to a former granite quarry, stood the German concentration camp Gross-Rosen. Some 125,000 prisoners passed through the main camp and its sub-camps, and the museum estimates the number of victims at about 40…
Museums
Lubomierz
Almost everyone in Poland knows the comedy Sami swoi ("All Friends Here"), shot by Sylwester Chęciński in Lubomierz in 1967. It tells of the feud between two neighbours, Kargul and Pawlak, peasants resettled from the east to Lower Silesia…
Museums
Jelenia Góra
The Karkonosze Museum holds more than 9,000 pieces of art glass – from Baroque goblets made in local mountain glassworks to an iridescent plate by Louis Tiffany. The building at Matejki Street 28 was built for the museum in 1912–1914, and…
Museums
Legnica
Above the entrance to the Baroque palace at ul. Partyzantów 3 you can see the letters LAL – short for "Lodovicus Abbas Lubensis", Abbot Ludwig Bauch of Lubiąż. For more than sixty years this building from 1728 has housed Poland's only muse…