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Bernardine Church
Northwest of the Rynek is the Bernardine Church , with its opulent furnishings and decoration. It was built for Ligęza as his mausoleum, and there are eight life-sized alabaster effigies of his family in the side walls of the chancel. In the gilded chapel to the right is an early-1
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Museum of Bourgeois Art
The unusual name here hides the main attraction: the Gothic interiors of the Old Town Hall. Look for the Great Hall (Sala Wielka) on the 1st floor, with carved decorations from the second half of the 15th century. Adjoining it is the Princes’ Room (Sala Książęca), which was built a
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Church of St Barbara
South of St Mary’s is this sombre 14th-century church sited on the small, charming Plac Mariacki, which until the early 19th century was a churchyard. St Barbara’s was the cemetery chapel and served the Polish faithful during the Middle Ages (the Mariacki was for Germans). Note the
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New Jewish Cemetery
Although it’s the ‘new’ Jewish cemetery, it was established as early as 1800. Though many of the grave markers were destroyed during the Holocaust, some 9000 tombstones are visible. Many of these have eerie and elaborate carvings.
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Zawodzie Archaeological Reserve
Located upon the site of a 10,000-year-old village, this attraction includes full-sized facsimiles of timber structures of the era, along with authentic archaeological remains. To take a pleasant 30-minute walk there from the vicinity of the Hotel Europa, head east along al Wolnośc
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St Mary’s Church
Toruń’s third great Gothic structure in the Old Town (after the Town Hall and Cathedral) is St Mary’s Church, erected by the Franciscans at the end of the 13th century. Austere and plain from the outside, the highly strung interior has tall, slender, intricate stained-glass windows
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Przemyśl Cathedral
Przemyśls cathedral, particularly its 71m-high freestanding bell tower , lords over the upper (southern) end of the Rynek. Theres been a church up here since at least the 12th and 13th centuries. The interior is impressive, but be sure to visit the crypts in the basement for a fasc
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Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Another huge brick structure, the Parish Church is 50m northwest of the Rynek. Founded in 1402, it was almost completely consumed by fire in the mid-17th century (only the chancel survived) and rebuilt. Note the intricate grape pattern on the wrought-iron main gates. Inside, the re
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Neptune Fountain
According to legend, the Neptune Fountain, next to the Town Hall , once gushed forth with the trademark Gdańsk liqueur, Goldwasser. As the story goes, it spurted out of the trident one merry night and Neptune found himself endangered by crowds of drunken locals. The bronze statue w
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Church of Our Lady on the Sand
This lofty 14th-century building dominates the tiny islet known as Sand Island (Wyspa Piasek). Almost all the fittings were destroyed during WWII and the half-dozen old triptychs you see inside were collected from other Silesian churches. The wonderful Romanesque tympanum in the so
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Polish Arms Museum
This large museum isn’t as dull as you might expect and is well worth a look if you’ve time on your hands. The displays cover the history of weaponry across the ages, with examples of swords, armour, halberds and more modern military technology, including an outdoor display of suit
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Słowiński National Park
The 186-sq-km Słowiński National Park takes up the 33km stretch of coast between Łeba and the tourist fishing village of Rowy, complete with two large lakes, the Łebsko and the Gardno, and their surrounding belts of peat bog, meadows and woods. It’s named after the Slav tribe of th
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Radegast Station
North of the Jewish Cemetery was the main deportation centre for Jews sent to the death camps at Chełmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The station, about 3km northeast of Bałucki Rynek, has been preserved and now holds a moving memorial to those lost in the Holocaust. Three original Deut
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Church of St Anne
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 academic year, doctoral promotions and a resting place for many university professors and rectors. A spacious, stark-white inter
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Cathedral of Christ the King
Some 800m south of the Rynek is Poland’s largest cathedral, its base measuring 89m by 53m. The massive sandstone structure was erected between 1927 and 1955. The spacious interior is topped with a large dome that rises 59m from the floor, but apart from colourful stained-glass wind
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Biecz Regional Museum
Most of the collection of the excellent Biecz Regional Museum is housed in two 16th-century buildings, both close to the church. The so-called House with a Turret holds the complete contents of an ancient pharmacy, including its laboratory, as well as musical instruments, tradition
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Łowicz Museum
Museum housed in a 17th-century missionary college designed by Dutch architect Tylman van Gameren; its highlight is the former priests chapel, with its fading Baroque frescoes (1695) by Italian artist Michelangelo Palloni and finely carved ivory tusks. The 1st floor features archae
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Chełm Museum
This former monastery houses a museum containing modern Polish paintings, natural history displays and temporary exhibitions. Other outlets of the museum are open during the same hours and charge the same admission. The Ethnography and Archaeology branch (ul Lubelska 56a) displays
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Pawiak Prison Museum
Dating from the 19th century, this former prison was built to incarcerate enemies of the Russian tsar. During WWII it was used by the Gestapo to imprison and torture mostly Polish political prisoners. It’s estimated that around 100,000 prisoners passed through these sinister gates
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Palace on the Water
Łazienki Parks centrepiece is this neoclassical palace, the former residence of the Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski. It straddles an ornamental lake and, like most other Łazienki buildings, was designed by the court architect Domenico Merlini. Renovated and refurbished, th
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