Nidzica Castle

Former Evangelical Church in Olsztynek

Warmian-Masurian

27 km

By the market square in Olsztynek stands one of the town’s oldest brick-and-stone buildings: a former Evangelical church probably erected around 1350. The single-nave church was built on a rectangular plan measuring about 31 × 11 m. The lo…

Teutonic Castle in Olsztynek

Warmian-Masurian

27 km

Above the town of Olsztynek stands a 14th-century Teutonic castle, erected in **1350–1366** on the orders of the Ostróda komtur Gunther von Hohenstein. The stronghold survived wars and fires in fairly good shape and today — unusually — hou…

Lake Pluszne near Olsztynek

Warmian-Masurian

27 km

Lake Pluszne, also known as Pluszne Wielkie, lies in the Olsztyn Lake District between Warmia and Masuria, near Olsztynek. The village of Pluski on the eastern shore is the most convenient base for planning time by the water. The large, fo…

Ethnographic Park in Olsztynek

Warmian-Masurian

27 km

The Museum of Folk Architecture — Ethnographic Park in Olsztynek is a large open-air museum presenting the traditional countryside of Warmia, Masuria, Powiśle and Lithuania Minor. Across 77 hectares, around 80 large and small rural buildin…

Dylew Hills

Warmian-Masurian

39 km

A walk through the Dylew Hills is the most mountainous landscape you will find in Warmia and Masuria: moraine hills cut by ravines, beech forests and Dylewska Góra at **312 m above sea level** — the highest elevation of north-eastern Polan…

Teutonic Castle in Szczytno

Warmian-Masurian

44 km

By Lake Domowe Duże in Szczytno survive the ruins of a Teutonic castle whose history goes back to the **13th century**. Next to them rises a monumental town hall of 1936–1937 modelled on medieval fortresses, so the town centre still looks…

Town Hall in Szczytno

Warmian-Masurian

44 km

The town hall in Szczytno stands out among Polish town halls for its construction and date: it is a **reinforced-concrete** building erected in **1936–1937** to a design by the Königsberg architect **Kurt Frick**, raised **partly on the ru…

Co-cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle in Olsztyn

Warmian-Masurian

30–45 min · Free entry

46 km

**The Co-cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle in Olsztyn** is the city’s oldest surviving sacred monument and one of the symbols of its Old Town. The red-brick, three-aisled church was built around the turn of the 14th and 15th centu…

Market Square in Olsztyn

Warmian-Masurian

46 km

The central square of the Old Town is ringed by town houses from the **17th to 19th centuries**, some of them with arcaded loggias and sgraffito decoration. In the middle stands the Old Town Hall, built in **1623–1624**, while the oldest s…