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Historical Museum of Kraków
At the northern corner of the square, the collection within the 17th-century Krzysztofory Palace is home to Cyberteka, an interactive exhibition which charts the city from the earliest days to WWI. The museum features a bit of everything related to the city’s past, including old cl
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Kashubian Museum
Slavophiles should make a beeline for this surprisingly good and delightfully old-school museum, south of the train station near the tracks. Amid the inevitable wooden farm implements and kitchen utensils there are some beautiful toffee-brown and metallic-black pottery so typical o
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History Museum
Housed in an Empire-style merchant’s house called the Braunschweig Palace, the sister institution to the Polish Arms Museum has a neatly presented collection, with an emphasis on weights and scales (metrology). Head downstairs for an interesting audiovisual presentation (in English
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Warsaw Museum
On the northern side of the Old Town Square, this museum tells Warsaws dramatic story. Its film covering the reconstruction of the city, screened several times daily (the English version at noon), is fascinating. The museum is currently closed for a major renovation and modernisati
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Museum of the Wielkopolska Uprising
In the old guardhouse on the western side of the buildings in the centre of the Rynek, this museum details the battles waged by Polish fighters seeking independence from Germany after the end of WWI. It’s an interesting if compact institution with displays of military uniforms, wea
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Museum of Architecture
A 16th-century former Bernardine church and monastery houses this collection, which features stone sculptures and stained-glass windows from various historic buildings of the region. The oldest exhibit, a Romanesque tympanum on the ground floor, dates from 1165. The museum also has
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Monument to the Warsaw Rising
One of Warsaw’s most important landmarks, this striking bronze tableau depicts Armia Krajowa (AK; Home Army) fighters emerging ghostlike from the shattered brickwork of their ruined city, while others descend through a manhole into the network of sewers. The monument was unveiled o
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City Walls
Chełmno is encircled by 2.2km of defensive walls, which have survived almost in their entirety. Alas, it’s not possible to walk around the entire circumference as various gardens and buildings block the way. Walking along ul Dworcowa from the bus terminal, you’ll enter the Old Town
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Annihilation Monument of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto
Annihilation Monument of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto is a powerful reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Three original cattle wagons used for deportations stand silently next to the now-defunct station, and original deportation lists (some headed with ‘Zur Arbeit’ – ‘to work’) li
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Corpus Christi Parish Church
The towns monumental parish church is located 100m west of the Rynek. This mighty Gothic brick structure, evidence of the town’s erstwhile affluence, dates from the 15th century. Inside, the chancel (the area surrounding the altar) holds most of the church’s treasures, notably the
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Main Synagogue
Radom was a significant Jewish settlement, and the Jewish community here numbered around 30,000 just before WWII (about a quarter of the population). Unfortunately, few Jews survived the war and little of that heritage remains. Most Jews lived in the area around the (now very dilap
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New Town Synagogue
Also called the big synagogue, since its much larger than the Old Town Synagogue next door. The building dates originally from the early 18th century and was built in a fusion of Renaissance and Baroque styles. It was used by the Germans as a warehouse during WWII, and after the wa
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Craft Museum
Directly opposite the Subcarpathian Museum, about 200m north of the Rynek, is the Craft Museum, featuring ethnographic displays related to such local crafts and trades as clockmaking, weaving, saddlery and even hairdressing. The Art Nouveau–style building, dating from the turn of t
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Ostrów Tumski
This river island is dominated by the monumental, double-towered Poznań Cathedral , originally built in 968. The Byzantine-style Golden Chapel (1841) and the mausoleums of Mieszko I and Boleslaus the Brave are behind the high altar. Opposite the cathedral is the 15th-century Gothic
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Morskie Oko
The most popular outing near Zakopane is to this emerald-green mountain lake, about 20km southeast of the centre. Buses regularly depart from ul Kościuszki, across from the main bus station, for Polana Palenica (45 minutes), from where a 9km-long road continues uphill to the lake.
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St Nicholas’ Church
One blast from the past amid the evolving rebuild of the Old Town is this sturdy, red-brick island of true oldness, noted for its 95m-high, carefully reconstructed and now ascendable tower. Within, you’ll find some of the original woodcarving, including several triptychs, which esc
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600th Anniversary Museum
This museum contains fascinating artefacts, including the founding documents of Jasna Góra from 1382 and a cross made from the steel of the World Trade Center, destroyed in New York on 11 September 2001. Particularly moving are rosaries made from breadcrumbs by concentration camp p
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Museum of Zakopane Style
Housed in the Willa Koliba, this was the first of several grand wooden villas designed by the noted Polish painter and architect Stanisław Witkiewicz in his ‘Zakopane Style’ (similar to the Arts and Crafts movement that swept the US and Britain at the turn of the 20th century). The
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Reformed Franciscan Church
The Reformed Franciscan Church , on the nearby hill, was built at the end of the 16th century but lost its original style with subsequent Baroque and neoclassical decorations. The Franciscan brethren were compelled to leave the church twice in history: first between 1866 and 1928 w
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Museum of Fishery
Hel’s Gothic church dates from the 1420s, making it the oldest building in town. Pews and monstrances have given way to exhibits on fishing and boat-building, a display of stuffed sea birds and a collection of old fishing boats, all part of the National Maritime Museum. The tower p
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