Things to do in Greater Poland
226 attractions in Greater Poland, including Gniezno Cathedral, Brama Poznania ICHOT and Karczmarz z Waliszewa (Innkeeper of Waliszewo).
All attractions (226)
Churches & monasteries
Gniezno Cathedral
Gniezno
Gniezno Cathedral (Gniezno is pronounced roughly "GNYEZ-no") – formally the Primatial Basilica of the Assumption and St. Adalbert – is where the story of Poland as a Christian kingdom begins. Its first archbishopric was founded here in the…
90–180 min Free entry
Historic sites
Brama Poznania ICHOT
Poznań
Brama Poznania ("BRAH-mah poz-NAH-nyah," meaning Gate of Poznań) is an interactive heritage center telling the story of Ostrów Tumski, the river island where both Poznań and the early Polish state began. Instead of display cases, it uses s…
90–150 min
Hidden gemMonuments & mounds
Karczmarz z Waliszewa (Innkeeper of Waliszewo)
Waliszewo
At a crossroads near the village of Waliszewo stands a smiling innkeeper with a jug in his hand and a towel over his arm. He looks like a welcoming host – until you walk around him. The sculpture, known locally as Karczmarz z Waliszewa (th…
10–15 min Free entry
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
St Rosalia's Chapel in Sławno
Sławno
On top of a former hillfort, among the old trees of a village cemetery, stands a dark wooden chapel with a tall tower crowned by a lantern cupola. St Rosalia's Chapel in Sławno (Kiszkowo municipality, near Gniezno) dates from 1785 and has…
20–30 min Free entry
Churches & monasteries
Poznań Cathedral
Poznań
Poznań Cathedral — the Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul on Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island) — is the oldest cathedral in Poland and one of the birthplaces of the Polish state. The first Polish bishopric was founded here in…
45–90 min
Castles
Imperial Castle in Poznań
Poznań
The Imperial Castle in Poznań (Zamek Cesarski, roughly "ZAH-mek tseh-SAR-skee") is a massive neo-Romanesque palace built in 1905–1910 for Kaiser Wilhelm II — one of the youngest castles in Europe and one of the most surprising buildings in…
Churches & monasteries
Poznań Fara
Poznań
The Poznań Fara (parish church, pronounced FAH-rah), formally the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Stanislaus, is one of the finest Baroque churches in Poland. It stands on Gołębia Street, a two-minute wal…
Free entry
Hidden gemHistoric sites
Ostrów Lednicki
Lednogóra
Ostrów Lednicki (roughly "OS-troof led-NEE-tskee") is a small island on Lake Lednica in western Poland where the story of the Polish state begins. In the 960s the first historical ruler of Poland, Duke Mieszko I, kept a fortified residence…
Landscape parks
Lednica Landscape Park
gmina Łubowo
Lednica Landscape Park protects the countryside around Lake Lednica ("led-NEE-tsa") in western Poland, halfway between Poznań and Gniezno on the Piast Trail. It's where Poland's story begins: on the island of Ostrów Lednicki stood a 10th-c…
180–360 min Free entry
Hidden gemCastles
Rydzyna Castle
Rydzyna
Rydzyna Castle (say "rih-DZIH-nah"), officially the Royal Castle in Rydzyna, is the largest Baroque castle in the Greater Poland region, set in a small town about 10 km south of Leszno in western Poland. Once home to King Stanisław Leszczy…
Hidden gemMuseums
Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno
Gniezno
The Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno (say "GNYEZ-no") is the best place to understand why this small city in western Poland is called the country's first capital. Archaeological finds, Romanesque art and 19th-century hi…
90–120 min
Hidden gemFortifications
Fort Winiary
Poznań
Citadel Park (Park Cytadela, "tsi-tah-DEH-lah") in Poznań is the city's largest park — about 100 hectares of green hilltop just north of the center, built on the ruins of Fort Winiary, a huge 19th-century Prussian fortress. It's where loca…
Free entry
Museums
Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica (Ostrów Lednicki)
gmina Łubowo
You reach the island of Ostrów Lednicki by ferry, and waiting for you are walls that date back to Mieszko I, Poland's first historical ruler: the ruins of a stone palace with a chapel and two baptismal pools that make this one of the stron…
Hidden gemPalaces
Radziwiłł Hunting Lodge in Antonin
gmina Przygodzice
In the autumn of 1829 the young Fryderyk Chopin spent more than a week in Antonin, playing music with the cello-playing prince, giving lessons to his daughter and writing his Polonaise in C major, Op. 3 for cello and piano. Prince Antoni R…
Hidden gemMuseums
Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice
gmina Łubowo
This is more than a collection of old farmhouses. The open-air museum in Dziekanowice, on Lake Lednica, was designed to recreate the structure of a traditional Wielkopolska village: farmsteads gathered around a village square, a wooden chu…
90–180 min
Churches & monasteries
Basilica of the Assumption and St Michael in Trzemeszno
Trzemeszno
From outside you notice the dome first, yet the oldest parts of this church go back to the reign of Duke Bolesław the Wrymouth. The Basilica of the Assumption and St Michael the Archangel in Trzemeszno is a former monastery church of the C…
Churches & monasteries
Cathedral Lock in Poznań (Galeria Śluza)
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…
Free entry
Gardens
Zielonka Forest Arboretum
Zielonka
The Forest Arboretum in Zielonka is a free-to-visit tree collection run by the Poznań University of Life Sciences, set deep inside the Puszcza Zielonka forest northeast of Poznań, Poland. About 1,100 species and varieties of trees and shru…
Free entry
Gardens
Kórnik Arboretum
Kórnik
Around Kórnik Castle grows the oldest and richest arboretum in Poland: more than 3,500 species and varieties of trees and shrubs on over 50 hectares. In 2026 the garden celebrates its 200th anniversary. People come in spring for the magnol…
90–180 min
Other
Fish Gate (Gate of the Third Millennium)
Imiołki
A steel fish 36 m long and 9 m wide stands on a grassy hill above Lake Lednica. This is the Gate of the Third Millennium, built in 1997 on the initiative of the Dominican Father Jan Góra – and walking beneath it is the climax of every Ledn…
Free entry
Museums
Centre of Kalisz Fairy Tales, Legends and the Town's Founding
Kalisz
The Dorotka Tower is the only surviving tower of Kalisz's medieval walls – out of eighteen that once reinforced them. Since 8 December 2018 it has housed the Centre of Kalisz Fairy Tales, Legends and the Town's Founding: a multimedia exhib…
Museums
Enigma Cipher Centre
Poznań
The Enigma Cipher Center (Centrum Szyfrów Enigma) in Poznań is an interactive exhibition about one of the great intelligence stories of World War II: how three young Polish mathematicians, Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki…
Historic sites
Cemetery of Distinguished Greater Poland Citizens
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…
Free entry
Historic sites
Former Partition Border at Borzykowo
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…
Free entry