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Churches & monasteries
Mogilno
In the crypt of St John's Church, four bays of vaulting rest on a single stone pillar known as "the abbot" – the oldest Romanesque groin vault of its kind in Poland. The former Benedictine Abbey in Mogilno has stood on a hill above Lake Mo…
Churches & monasteries
Rudy
The coat of arms of Rudy Abbey bore the letters MORS, Latin for "death", but they meant something else: Morimond, the French abbey from which the local Cistercians descended. For over 550 years the monks founded villages, fishponds, brewer…
Churches & monasteries
Kartuzy
Above the main entrance of Kartuzy's collegiate church an angel with a scythe swings back and forth: it is the pendulum of a clock built into the organ gallery, and the whole church is covered by a roof shaped like a coffin lid. Both carry…
Churches & monasteries
Przeworsk
The Basilica of the Holy Spirit in Przeworsk (say "PSHEH-vorsk") is a 15th-century Gothic church in southeastern Poland that was run for over four centuries by the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, an order founded in Jerusalem. Its tr…
Churches & monasteries
Racibórz
The Dominican friary that stood beside Racibórz's market square for almost six centuries is gone; only its church survives. St James's Church, in the north-eastern corner of the square, burned at least four times, yet it kept its medieval…
Churches & monasteries
Korzkiew
On the high altar stands a small Gothic reliquary which, according to its inscription, holds a splinter of the True Cross and a piece of the table from the Last Supper. The Church of the Nativity of St John the Baptist in Korzkiew was buil…
Churches & monasteries
Siemiatycze
On the chancel vault you can still see the Lis (Fox) coat of arms of the Sapieha family, who built this church in the 17th century. The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Siemiatycze is the town's oldest and most valuable monum…
Amusement parks
gmina Torzym
The wooden Wilkołak (Werewolf) roller coaster stands 22 m tall and reaches 71 km/h – a mirror-image copy of Heidi the Ride at Plopsaland De Panne in Belgium. Majaland Kownaty is a family theme park in western Poland's Lubuskie region, buil…
Museums
Rzeszów
The Bedtime Cartoon Museum in Rzeszów (Muzeum Dobranocek) is devoted to "dobranocki" – the evening cartoons that Polish children waited for before bed for decades. Its display cases on Mickiewicza Street hold original film puppets of Teddy…
Museums
Łódź
The Factory Museum in Łódź tells the story of Izrael Poznański's textile empire on the very spot where it operated – in the former fabric printing works on the site of today's Manufaktura. Here you can see how cotton became yarn and yarn b…
Museums
Zakopane
Jan Kasprowicz bought the wooden villa at Harenda in 1923 from an English painter for 500 pounds, money he had earned translating Shakespeare. He lived here for only three years, until his death in 1926, but his widow Maria kept the house…
Museums
Wrocław
The Pan Tadeusz Museum in Wrocław is a modern storytelling museum run by the Ossolineum, set in the Baroque House under the Golden Sun on the Market Square. Its centerpiece is the only surviving manuscript of "Pan Tadeusz," Adam Mickiewicz…
Museums
Opole
The Museum of Polish Song in Opole tells the story of Polish popular music from the 1920s to the present – inside the Millennium Amphitheatre, the stage of the National Festival of Polish Song. Instead of display cases you get headphones,…
Museums
Nysa
The Nysa District Museum is the oldest museum in Opole Silesia – it has existed since 1897 and since 1984 has occupied the Baroque Bishops' Palace, the former residence of the bishops of Wrocław, who were also dukes of Nysa. Here you will…
Museums
Hel
The Fisheries Museum in Hel is a branch of Poland's National Maritime Museum, set in the oldest building in town: a Gothic brick church from the 15th century right by the harbor on the Hel Peninsula, north of Gdańsk. Inside are traditional…
Museums
Chrzanów
The Irena and Mieczysław Mazaraki Museum in Chrzanów is the regional museum of western Małopolska, housed in a historic manor building that locals call the "Inkwell" (Kałamarz). It covers the area's prehistory, the old town and its Jewish…
Museums
Łódź
The Łódź Palm House is a tropical oasis in Źródliska Park, the city's oldest park: under its glass roof grow around 4,500 specimens of more than 1,100 species and varieties. The most precious are palms that remember the orangeries of Łódź'…
Landmarks
Kołobrzeg
With its battlements, corner towers and red-brick walls it looks like a small castle, yet it was built from the start as the seat of the town council. Kołobrzeg Town Hall was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the most celebrated archite…
Churches & monasteries
Wasilków
The Święta Woda Sanctuary (roughly "SHVYEN-tah VOH-dah", meaning "Holy Water") in Wasilków, just north of Białystok in northeastern Poland, is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the Podlasie region. A white church of Our Lady of S…
Churches & monasteries
Poznań
The Cathedral Lock is a nearly 200-year-old piece of the Prussian Poznań Fortress on the River Cybina, right next to Ostrów Tumski, the cathedral island. This former fortified weir, now linked by a glass footbridge to the Gate of Poznań he…
Museums
Tychy
Tyskie Browarium, officially the Museum of the Tyskie Princely Breweries, is a brewing museum inside a working brewery in Tychy, where beer has been brewed without interruption for almost 400 years. The exhibition fills a restored former P…
Zoos
Wrocław
The Afrykarium in Wrocław (say af-rih-KAR-yum, VROTS-wahv) is Poland's first oceanarium devoted entirely to Africa and the star attraction of Wrocław Zoo, one of the country's most visited sights. Inside a vast, partly underground building…
Museums
Kraków
The Under the Eagle Pharmacy (Apteka pod Orłem, roughly "AP-teh-kah pod OR-wem") in Kraków is one of the most moving places to visit in Podgórze, the district south of the Vistula where the Nazis sealed off the city's Jewish ghetto in 1941…
Thermal baths & water parks
Łódź
Aquapark Fala (say "FAH-lah", Polish for "wave") is the big water park of Łódź (pronounced roughly "Woodge"), one of Poland's largest cities, and the park is one of the busiest in the country, with a record 1.55 million visits in 2025. It…