99 attractions in West Pomerania, including Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall, Szczecin, Fort Angel (Engelsburg) in Świnoujście and Fort Gerhard…
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Szczecin
The Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic Hall in Szczecin is the city's most famous modern building – a cluster of white, ice-like peaks that glows in changing colors after dark. Designed by the Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga, it won the 2015…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
The fort's German name – Engelsburg, the Angel's Castle – is no accident. Its round, stepped brick tower reminded the builders of Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo, the papal fortress on the Tiber. Fort Angel was built in the mid-19th century as a…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
Fort Gerhard (Fort Gerharda) in Świnoujście is one of Europe's best-preserved 19th-century Prussian coastal forts, and a rare "living museum" where history is acted out rather than just displayed. It guards the mouth of the Świna River on…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
Fort Zachodni (West Fort) in Świnoujście is a 19th-century Prussian coastal battery at the mouth of the Świna River, now home to the Fortress History Museum. Ringed by a water-filled moat and overgrown with grass, it sits on the western ba…
Museums
Międzyzdroje
The Wax Figures Museum in Międzyzdroje (pronounced roughly "myen-dzi-ZDROY-eh") is a popular indoor attraction in one of Poland's best-known Baltic Sea resorts, on the island of Wolin near the German border. Set on the promenade a few step…
Viewpoints
Koszalin
This wooded moraine ridge on the eastern edge of Koszalin was a landmark for the whole area as early as the Middle Ages. On its highest point, Krzyżanka (136 m above sea level), stands a brick observation tower from 1888, and next to it a…
Monuments & mounds
Cedynia
On a hill above the Oder valley, right by the village of Osinów Dolny, a 15-metre eagle spreads its wings for take-off. It commemorates the Battle of Cedynia on 24 June 972, one of the earliest victories of Poland's first historical ruler,…
Mountains & peaks
gmina Międzyzdroje
At Gosań the cliff of Wolin National Park reaches its highest point: the top of the bluff stands 93 m above sea level, and the park describes the hill as the highest elevation on the Polish coast. From the viewing platform, reached by a sh…
Historic sites
Międzyzdroje
In Lubin on Wolin Island, about 7 km from Międzyzdroje, an early medieval hillfort sits on the highest cliff above the Szczecin Lagoon. From wooden terraces more than 50 m above sea level you can see the archipelago of 44 islands in the Św…
Gardens
Szczecin
Jasne Błonia (roughly "YAS-neh BWOH-nya", meaning "Bright Meadows") and Kasprowicz Park form Szczecin's best-loved green space: a broad lawn lined with rows of plane trees that flows into a large park around Lake Rusałka. Jasne Błonia is h…
Lakes
Koszalin
Jamno is a shallow lagoon separated from the Baltic by a narrow spit on which the resorts of Mielno, Unieście and Łazy stand. On one side of the road you hear the sea, on the other lie more than 22 km² of calm water with sailing marinas. I…
Lakes
Stargard
The surface of Lake Miedwie lies 14 metres above sea level, but at its deepest point the bed drops almost 30 metres below sea level. It is Poland's largest cryptodepression and the lowest point in the country. On the surface it all looks p…
Lakes
Dźwirzyno
Lake Resko Przymorskie (roughly “RES-ko pshi-MOR-skyeh”) is a large, shallow coastal lake at Dźwirzyno, about 10 km west of Kołobrzeg, separated from the Baltic Sea only by a narrow dune-covered spit. It is one of the best places near Koło…
Lakes
Szczecin
Emerald Lake (Jezioro Szmaragdowe, roughly "YEZH-oh-roh shmah-RAHG-doh-veh") is a flooded former chalk quarry hidden in the beech woods of the Bukowa Forest, on the eastern edge of Szczecin. It is famous for its green, emerald-tinted water…
Lakes
Międzyzdroje
Turquoise Lake (Jezioro Turkusowe) on Wolin Island is a small, strikingly colored lake in a flooded chalk quarry at Wapnica (say "vap-NEE-tsah"), inside Wolin National Park in Poland's far northwest. On a sunny day its water glows an inten…
Fortifications
Kołobrzeg
The Stone Redoubt (Kamienny Szaniec) is a relic of the eastern defences of the former Kołobrzeg Fortress, tucked into the dunes right above the beach at the eastern end of Stefan Żeromski Park. Built in 1832–1836 to fight off warships, wit…
Churches & monasteries
Koszalin
The oak figures of the apostles in the altar of Koszalin Cathedral were carved from wood felled in the winter of 1491–1492 in forests along the Vistula near Toruń – conservators established this through tree-ring dating. For a century and…
Churches & monasteries
Kamień Pomorski
Kamień Pomorski Cathedral (pronounced roughly "KAH-myen po-MOR-skee"), formally the Co-Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, is one of the oldest and most important churches on Poland's Baltic coast and a national Monument of History. For alm…
Viewpoints
Międzyzdroje
Kawcza Góra (roughly "KAHF-chah GOO-rah") is a beech-covered hill in Międzyzdroje ("myen-dzih-ZDROY-eh"), a seaside resort on Poland's Baltic coast, with a viewpoint perched above a sea cliff. It rises 61 m (200 ft) above the Pomeranian Ba…
Museums
Kołobrzeg
The Kołobrzeg Maritime Open-Air Museum (Kołobrzeski Skansen Morski) is an outdoor branch of the Museum of Polish Arms in the town's fishing port. Its stars are two Polish Navy warships standing on dry land that you can climb aboard, along…
Churches & monasteries
Chojna
The tower of St Mary's in Chojna can be seen from far away across the flat fields of West Pomerania. It is one of the largest Gothic churches in Poland, attributed to the workshop of Hinrich Brunsberg, and after a fire in 1945 it stood as…
Churches & monasteries
Trzebiatów
St. Mary's Church in Trzebiatów (officially the Church of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Trzebiatów is pronounced roughly "tsheh-BYAH-toof") is a soaring Gothic brick church whose tower reaches about 90 m. It stands in a small…
Churches & monasteries
Rusowo
At a crossroads in the village of Rusowo, on a low rise next to a pond, stands a little church that remembers medieval Pomerania. Its massive tower and nave of fieldstone have survived fires, wars and shifting borders, and inside a Renaiss…
Churches & monasteries
Budzistowo
The Church of St John the Baptist in Budzistowo measures just 8 × 5 m, yet it is the oldest brick church in Central Pomerania and the only surviving monument of early medieval Kołobrzeg. It stands in a village that for centuries carried th…