Must-see attractions in Poland

  • Archdiocesan Museum

    Wielkopolska

    North of the cathedral, behind St George's Church, this museum holds a collection of sacred sculptures and paintings, liturgical fabrics, coffin portraits…

  • Rzeszów City Museum

    Carpathian Mountains

    Six centuries of Rzeszów's life, triumphs and tribulations are revealed through the interesting exhibits of this worthwhile city museum, housed in a 17th…

  • Playground Mural

    Warsaw

    Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic created this mural of a group of children playing around a globe-shaped climbing frame in 2015 as part of the Street…

  • Castle

    Poznań

    Originally constructed in 1249 and destroyed in WWII, this impressively rebuilt structure today houses the Museum of Applied Arts.

  • Beach

    Gdańsk & Pomerania

    Ustka's main attraction is the dune-backed beach. None of the town is visible from the sand, giving it a wild feel, unless it's carpeted with…

  • Franciscan Church

    Wielkopolska

    Place of worship, usually open during the daytime, featuring both a Gothic tower erected in the 15th century and a baroque facade dating from the late…

  • Wigry Museum

    Mazovia & Podlasie

    This large museum has exhibitions on the flora and fauna to be found in the park and lake. It's near a public beach and pier with fine views of the…

  • Parish Church

    Wielkopolska

    Gothic church completed in 1430 and rebuilt after fire ravaged it in 1613. It is surrounded with a wall that was once part of medieval fortifications.

  • Henryk Sienkiewicz Monument

    Małopolska

    This monument to the Polish writer and Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz marks the eastern end of pedestrianised ul Sienkiewicza.

  • Gdańsk House

    Małopolska

    The baroque-style Gdańsk House, dating from 1795, is one of the most architecturally important buildings on the city's main square.

  • Warsaw Fight Club Mural

    Warsaw

    Irish artist Conor Harrington designed this giant mural of a couple of brawling gents in 18th-century frock coats and breeches.

  • Town Hall

    Gdańsk & Pomerania

    The elaborate Renaissance-Gothic town hall has an impressive main tower, which can be ascended for a full Słupsk panorama.

  • Monastery Entrance

    The Kraków−Częstochowa Upland

    The main entrance to the Paulite Monastery of Jasna Góra.

  • Church of St Anne

    Church of St Anne

    Kraków

    Designed by Tylman van Gameren and built in the late-17th century as a university church, the Church of St Anne was long the site of inaugurations of the…

  • Church of St Barbara

    Church of St Barbara

    Kraków

    This sombre 14th-century church is located on the small, charming Plac Mariacki, which was a churchyard until the early 19th century. St Barbara’s was the…

  • Bunkier Sztuki "art bunker" is nestled in the Planty Park

    Bunkier Sztuki

    Kraków

    While Kraków's art scene focuses mostly on the 19th and 20th centuries or earlier, Bunkier Sztuki – literally 'art bunker' – houses three floors of…

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    St Catherine's Church

    Kraków

    One of the most monumental churches in the city, and possibly the one that has best retained its original Gothic shape, St Catherine’s was founded in 1363…

  • Archdiocesan Museum, ul Kanonicza 21, Old Town.

    Archdiocesan Museum

    Kraków

    This collection of religious sculpture and paintings, dating from the 13th to 16th centuries, is located in a 14th-century townhouse. Also on display is…

  • Papal Window

    Papal Window

    Kraków

    When visiting Kraków, Pope John Paul II used to address his followers from this window of the Bishop's Palace, overlooking ul Franciszkańska. The area is…

  • Szołayski House

    Szołayski House

    Kraków

    This former home of the Stanisław Wyspiański Museum is now used to house rotating exhibitions of art and culture. Check the website to see what's showing…

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    Central Museum of Textiles

    Łódź

    Dig deeper into Łódź' industrial past at this museum located in Ludwig Geyer's gorgeous White Factory (Biała Fabryka), the city's oldest textile mill,…

  • Town Hall Tower

    Town Hall Tower

    Kraków

    Southwest of the Cloth Hall, this soaring tower is all that is left of the 15th-century town hall which was dismantled in the 1820s. The 70m-tall tower…

  • Hipolit House

    Hipolit House

    Kraków

    Next to St Mary’s Basilica, this branch of the Kraków City History Museum contains faithful recreations of townhouse interiors from the 17th to early 19th…

  • Abbey Church

    Wrocław

    In Trzebnica, 25km north of Wrocław, this abbey church is thought to be one of the first brick buildings erected in Poland. Though rebuilt in the 18th…

  • Gdańsk Shipyard

    Gdańsk

    Gdańsk’s former Lenin Shipyard is a key fragment of 20th-century European history. It was here that the first major cracks in Eastern Europe’s communist…

  • Old Town Hall

    Gdańsk

    The Old Town Hall was once the seat of the Old Town council. A well-proportioned Renaissance building crowned with a high central tower typical of its…

  • Cathedral Basilica of St James

    Szczecin

    Head downhill from the city centre to explore Szczecin’s 12th-century cathedral, partially destroyed by Red Army shells in 1945 and reconstructed in 1972…

  • Foregate

    Gdańsk

    The large 15th-century construction known as the Foregate consists of the Torture House (Katownia) to the west and a high Prison Tower (Wieża Więzienna)…

  • Rynek

    Silesia

    Diverse architecture within Nysa's vast market square suggests the extent of damage done in WWII. Only the southern side retains anything akin to its…

  • Museum of the Grunwald Battlefield

    Warmia & Masuria

    Built on the central hill of the battlefield where combined Polish and Lithuanian troops led by King Władysław II Jagiełło defeated the army of the…

  • St Mary’s Basilica

    Małopolska

    The hill in the middle of Chełm is crowned with the white St Mary’s Basilica. The late-baroque basilica was rebuilt in the mid-18th century on the site of…

  • Great Arsenal

    Gdańsk

    Ul Piwna terminates at the Great Arsenal, an architectural gem. The work of Antonius van Opbergen, it was built at the beginning of the 17th century and,…

  • Skwer Esperanto

    Gdańsk & Pomerania

    With time to kill, walk south along the line of the river, past remnants of the old city walls, to this scrappy park behind Hotel Stary Malbork. It isn’t…

  • Historical Museum of Szczecin

    Szczecin

    Szczecin's 15th-century Gothic Town Hall, one of the most architecturally fascinating buildings in the city with its monster red-brick gable, is the only…

  • Smoleńsk Air Disaster Monument

    Warsaw

    Dubbed 'the stairway to heaven', this black granite monument commemorates the 2010 plane crash in Smolensk, in which 96 people died, including the then…

  • Warsaw Citadel

    Warsaw

    Following the November Uprising of 1830, imperial Russia built this pentagonal brick fortress to enforce its power over Warsaw. It covers 36 hectares and,…

  • Smołdzino

    Gdańsk & Pomerania

    West of Kluki, outside the park boundaries, is the village of Smołdzino, with a fine Natural History Museum that features flora and fauna from the park’s…

  • Water Tower

    Gdańsk & Pomerania

    Across the main road from the cathedral, down in the town, this water tower was built in 1571 making it Europe's oldest. It was used for two centuries to…

  • Agnieszka Osiecka Monument

    Warsaw

    Warsaw-born Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–97) is famous for her poetry, journalism and song writing (she penned over 2000 songs). She lived in Saska Kępa most…

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