Things to do in Greater Poland

St Rosalia Chapel in Sławno

Sławno

20–30 min · Free entry

**St Rosalia Chapel in Sławno** is a wooden cemetery chapel built on a former cone-shaped earthwork, on the eastern edge of the village in Kiszkowo commune. It was completed in **1785** and is one of the most interesting examples of wooden…

Poznań Cathedral

Poznań

45–90 min

**Poznań Cathedral** on Cathedral Island is Poland’s oldest cathedral and a place connected with the beginnings of the Polish state. The first Polish bishopric was established here in 968, and the island became a centre of power for the ea…

Imperial Castle in Poznań

Poznań

The Imperial Castle in Poznań is one of the youngest castles in Europe — and its story is full of paradoxes. Built in **1905–1910** for **Wilhelm II**, the last German emperor, to a design by **Franz Schwechten** shaped by the Kaiser's own…

Poznań Fara

Poznań

**Poznań Fara**, the collegiate church and basilica on Gołębia Street, is one of Poland’s most important Baroque monuments. Its full dedication is to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Mary Magdalene and St Stanislaus. A few steps from the Old…

Ostrów Lednicki

gmina Łubowo

Ostrów Lednicki, the largest of the five islands on Lake Lednica, is one of the most important places in Polish history — the probable site of the Baptism of Poland. Under Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave it was a principal defensive and a…

Lednica Landscape Park

gmina Łubowo

Lake Lednica in the Gniezno Lakeland is one of the most important places on the map of Poland's beginnings: on the largest of its five islands, **Ostrów Lednicki**, survive the remains of the oldest stone palace-and-church architecture in…

Lednica Landscape Park

gmina Łubowo

180–360 min

Lednica Landscape Park combines nature with one of Poland’s most important stories about the beginnings of statehood. Around Lake Lednica, island, shore, fields and former crossings create the setting for the heritage of the first Piasts.…

Old Market Square in Poznań

Poznań

A square with sides of **141 m**, laid out around 1253 — the third largest market square in Poland, after Kraków and Wrocław. At its centre stands the Renaissance town hall, and on its little tower **the billy goats emerge every day at 12:…

Rydzyna Castle

Rydzyna

Rydzyna Castle is a Baroque residence of the Leszczyński and Sułkowski families, built on the walls of a Gothic castle from the early 15th century. Together with its moat, park, outbuildings and the town’s historic layout, it forms one of…

Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno

Gniezno

90–120 min

The Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno presents the beginnings of Polish statehood through people, objects and everyday life rather than a single date in a textbook. Its main exhibition covers the period from the early 10…

Fort Winiary

Poznań

Citadel Park in Poznań is a large urban park on the hill of the former Winiary Fort, covering about 100 hectares. It brings together the history of the 19th-century Poznań Fortress, memorial sites, museums, public art and everyday recreati…

Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica

gmina Łubowo

The Museum of the First Piasts at Lednica explores the beginnings of the Polish state and the world of the early Piast dynasty. Its highlight is the archaeological site of the early medieval stronghold on Ostrów Lednicki island, reached by…

Palace in Antonin

gmina Przygodzice

Palace in Antonin in gmina Przygodzice is a historic residence whose architecture and surroundings recall the former owners of the region. Look for the building’s details and its park or courtyard where access is available. It is an appeal…

Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice

gmina Łubowo

90–180 min

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…

Saint Michael Archangel and Assumption of Mary Basilica in Trzemeszno

Trzemeszno

The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Trzemeszno is a late-Baroque gem on the Piast Trail. It is a former monastery church linked with the Canons Regular brought to Trzemeszno by Duke Bolesław the Wrymouth. The churc…

Katedralna Lock in Poznań

Poznań

Katedralna Lock, also known as Dom Schleuse, is a historic part of the 19th-century Poznań Fortress on the Cybina River. The building stands beside Cathedral Island, and a glass footbridge connects it with the Porta Posnania heritage centr…

Fish Gate

Waliszewo

Free entry

Brama Ryba, also called the Gate of the Third Millennium, is a steel fish-shaped structure on the Lednica Fields beside Lake Lednica. It is the symbolic centre of the Lednica 2000 youth meetings and one of the most recognisable landmarks o…

Enigma Cipher Centre

Poznań

The Enigma Cipher Centre at 78 Święty Marcin Street tells the Poznań story behind the breaking of the Enigma cipher. Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki studied cryptology here. The multimedia exhibitio…

Saints Fabian and Sebastian Wooden Church in Krotoszyn

Ruda Sułowska

**The wooden Church of Saints Fabian and Sebastian in Krotoszyn**, also known as St Roch’s Church, is one of the town’s oldest and most distinctive monuments. Built around 1572 as a hospital church, its Greek-cross plan and central dome se…

Wooden Town Hall in Sulmierzyce

gmina Przygodzice

## Key information The wooden town hall of Sulmierzyce stands in the middle of Rynek 1, in a town in southern Greater Poland. Built in 1743, it is the only surviving example in Poland of a wooden small-town town hall. The building houses t…

Maria Dąbrowska's Manor House in Russów

gmina Warta

## Maria Dąbrowska’s home in Russów The Maria Dąbrowska Manor in Russów near Kalisz belongs to the literary branch of the District Museum of the Kalisz Region. Maria Dąbrowska was born here in 1889 and spent her childhood and youth. Her fa…