Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Churches & monasteries
Komańcza
On the evening of 13 September 2006 one of the most remarkable wooden churches of the Carpathians burnt down in Komańcza, together with its iconostasis of 1832. Only the bell tower survived. The next day the Orthodox Archbishop of Przemyśl…
Museums
Koniaków
Inside a wooden house in the Szańce part of Koniaków, the highest village in the Silesian Voivodeship, hangs a trombita more than 11 metres long. According to the regional tourism portal it is probably the longest instrument of its kind in…
Mountains & peaks
Szczawno-Zdrój
Chełmiec made it onto the Crown of Polish Mountains list thanks to a mistake: the survey point was once placed on top of the observation tower, so the mountain "grew" to 869 m. Modern surveys give 850 m above sea level, and the title of hi…
Nature
Szklarska Poręba
On top of a granite rock group in the forest above Szklarska Poręba lies a boulder about 4 metres across that rests on just two points. That is why it can be gently set rocking – hence the name Chybotek, roughly "the wobbler". The rock has…
Monuments & mounds
Turzańsk
Silent Memorial is an open-air gallery of portraits scattered across villages and painted directly onto the boards of old barns and sheds. Sanok-born artist Arkadiusz Andrejkow started the project in 2017 in the Subcarpathian region, and t…
Historic sites
Szczecin
Szczecin Central Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Poland and the third largest in Europe, after those in Hamburg and Manchester. Its more than 172 hectares (425 acres) form a vast landscaped park with tree-lined avenues, fountains, stre…
Landmarks
Węgrów
At the end of Ewangelicka Street in Węgrów stands a larch-wood church which — according to a tradition still alive today — was built in a single day. Around it lies the old Protestant cemetery with late 17th-century gravestones of Scottish…
Landmarks
Kraków
Rakowicki Cemetery (Cmentarz Rakowicki, roughly "rah-ko-VEETS-kee") in Kraków is the city's oldest municipal cemetery and one of Poland's most important burial grounds. Spread over more than 42 hectares of tree-lined avenues, it holds pain…
Historic sites
Bydlin
In the parish cemetery of Bydlin, at the foot of a hill crowned by castle ruins, stands a seven-metre sandstone cross. Beneath it, in a mass grave, lie 46 Polish Legionnaires killed at the Battle of Krzywopłoty in November 1914 — a clash J…
Historic sites
Brzesko
Behind a stone wall on ulica Czarnowiejska in Brzesko lie more than 500 soldiers from the First World War: Austrians, Germans and Russians buried side by side. Cemetery No. 276 is one of the burial grounds laid out by the Austro-Hungarian…
Historic sites
Poznań
The Cemetery of Distinguished Greater Poland Citizens (Cmentarz Zasłużonych Wielkopolan) on St. Adalbert's Hill is Poznań's oldest surviving cemetery and one of the most atmospheric corners of the city center. On a leafy slope of ivy, old…
Landmarks
Busko-Zdrój
Behind a stone wall on ul. Widuchowska, about a kilometre east of the centre of Busko-Zdrój, lies the cemetery of the spa town's former Jewish community. Not a single gravestone remains in its original place – the surviving matzevot have b…
Coast
Rewa
In the waters of Puck Bay near Rewa and Osłonino lie the remains of several ships, which divers call the Cmentarzysko Wraków (Shipwreck Graveyard). The best known is the wreck of the "Helena" – a wooden coastal sailing vessel that sank in…
Coast
Hel
The Hel Headland is the sandy tip of the Hel Peninsula (say it like "hell"), the spot where a 35 km sand spit north of Gdańsk finally runs out and the open Baltic meets the Bay of Gdańsk. Since 2013 a stone cairn called the Kashubian Mound…
Viewpoints
Klucze
Czubatka is a 382 m hill on the western edge of Klucze village and one of the easiest viewpoints over the Błędów Desert – Poland's largest expanse of loose sand, covering about 33 km². You can drive right up, and from the fenced terrace yo…
Nature
Kadyny
The Bażyński Oak in Kadyny is one of the oldest and thickest trees in Poland – a pedunculate oak whose age dendrochronological research puts at around 716 years. It grows right by the road from Elbląg to Frombork, in a former imperial vill…
Nature
Rudy
Behind the basilica of the former Cistercian abbey in Rudy grows a pedunculate oak that was already a giant in 1752, when the German engraver Johann Elias Ridinger included its outline in a print of the monastery. "Cysters" ("The Cistercia…
Viewpoints
Chechło
From Dąbrówka hill in Chechło you look straight out over Poland's largest expanse of shifting sand. The viewpoint, at 355 m above sea level, faces the northern, treeless part of the Błędów Desert – the part you are not allowed to enter, be…
Historic sites
Borzykowo
In the fields near Borzykowo stand striped border posts and wooden sentry boxes with carved guards – a reconstructed crossing on the line that for more than a century split the Greater Poland region between Prussia and Russia. Drawn after…
Fortifications
Poznań
In the 14th century Poznań was one of the most heavily fortified towns in Poland: a brick wall about 1.7 km long and up to 11 metres high, reinforced by around 35 towers spaced every 35–45 metres. Only fragments survive, but they make a go…
Nature
Bagicz
The Bolesław and Warcisław oaks near Bagicz (BAH-geetch) are two of the most famous trees on Poland's Baltic coast – giant pedunculate oaks in the Kołobrzeg Forest, about 15 km (9 miles) southeast of the resort town of Kołobrzeg. Bolesław…
Other
Szczyrk
The Żylica Riverside Promenade (Deptak nad Żylicą) is a walking and cycling path that follows the mountain river through the centre of Szczyrk – from the Town Hall at ul. Beskidzka 4, past St James's Square and the amphitheatre, to the Ska…
Old towns & squares
Karpacz
Walking the promenade in Karpacz takes about five minutes, yet this short stretch of ul. Konstytucji 3 Maja packs in Poland's shortest street, the country's highest town hall and a pavement with the bootprints of Polish Himalayan climbers.…
Other
Krynica-Zdrój
The Krynica-Zdrój promenade (KRIH-nee-tsah ZDROOY) is the elegant main walk of one of Poland's most famous mountain spa towns. It combines the pedestrian Leona Nowotarskiego Avenue with the Dietl Boulevards running along the Kryniczanka st…