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Cemetery
One way to get a flavour of the towns former ethnic mix is to visit the sprawling cemetery about 1km west of the tourist office. It comprises several separate burial grounds for people of different creeds, including those following the Catholic, Orthodox, Old Believer, and Muslim f
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Museum of Pomeranian Dukes
South of Darłowo’s central Rynek is its well-preserved 14th-century castle, erected in 1352 and renovated in 1988. It was the residence of the Pomeranian dukes until the Swedes devastated it during the Thirty Years’ War; the Brandenburgs then took it following the Treaty of Westpha
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Old Bishops Palace
In the southeastern corner of the courtyard of the Cathedral Hill complex is the Old Bishops Palace. This is now Nicolaus Copernicus Museums main exhibition space. On the ground floor are objects discovered during postwar archaeological excavations, while the other levels are large
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Arkadia Park
With its overgrown ruins, peeling pavilions, temples and follies, the landscaped garden at Arkadia Park is a romantic pagan enclave in a sea of Catholicism. The park was laid out by Princess Helena Radziwiłł in the 1770s as an idyllic land of peace and happiness, but after the prin
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Old Bishops’ Palace
The museum’s main exhibition space can be found in the southeastern corner of the complex, though the entrance can take a bit of finding. The ground floor is taken up with objects discovered during postwar archaeological excavations, stained glass and ecclesiastical treasures while
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Wielkopolska National Park
Just a few kilometres southwest of Poznań’s administrative boundaries is the 76-sq-km Wielkopolska National Park. About 80% of the park is forest – pine and oak being the dominant species – and its postglacial lakes give it a certain charm.Hiking is the main attraction here, and a
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Artus Court Museum
Rising in all its embellished grandeur behind the Neptune Fountain, the Artus Court is perhaps the single best-known house in Gdańsk. The court has been an essential stop for passing luminaries ever since its earliest days, and a photo display in the entrance shows an enviable sele
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Suwałki Landscape Park
The Suwałki Landscape Park, about halfway between Suwałki and the Lithuanian border, is a cluster of pristine lakes and rugged hills that certainly merits a detour. Covering some 63 sq km, a healthy portion of the park is either lakes (26 in all, totalling 10% of the parks area) or
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Kampinos National Park
Popularly known as the Puszcza Kampinoska, Kampinos begins just outside Warsaw’s northwestern administrative boundary and stretches west for about 40km. It’s one of the largest national parks in Poland, with around three-quarters of its area covered by forest, mainly pine and oak.K
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Strictly Protected Area
This is the oldest section of the Białowieża national park and covers an area of around 47.5 sq km, bordered to the north and west by the marshy Hwożna and Narewka Rivers, and to the east by the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park in Belarus.This part of the park can only be entere
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Shifting Dunes
The most unusual feature of the national park is the shifting dunes (wydmy ruchome) , which create a genuine desert landscape. They’re on the sandbar separating the sea from Lake Łebsko, about 8km west of Łeba. Rommel’s Afrika Korps trained in this desert during WWII, and the site
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Castle Museum
Gołuchów’s castle began life around 1560 as a small fortified mansion with octagonal towers at its corners, built by the Leszczyński family. Some 50 years later it was enlarged and reshaped into a palatial residence in the late Renaissance style. Abandoned at the end of the 17th ce
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Wolin National Park
Best accessed from the resort of Międzyzdroje, Wolin National Park occupies the central section of Wolin Island. With a total area of about 50 sq km, it’s one of the smaller Polish parks, yet it’s picturesque enough to warrant a day or two of walking. The park’s northern edge drops
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Palace Museum
Less visited than Kórnik’s castle and much more Germanic in its appearance, the Rogalin palace consists of a massive, two-storey baroque central structure and two modest symmetrical wings linked to the main body by curving galleries, forming a giant horseshoe around a vast forecour
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Krzyżtopór Castle
The small village of Ujazd (oo -yahst), around 30km west of Sandomierz, is home to arguably Poland’s most bizarre ruin. Krzyżtopór Castle was commissioned by eccentric governor Krzysztof Ossoliński and built according to his fantastic imagination, incorporating his love of magic an
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Castle
This massive red-brick 14th-century castle is the most important historic building in Olsztyn and home to the Museum of Warmia & Masuria.
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Książ Castle
With 415 rooms, this castle is the largest in Silesia, majestically perched on a steep hill amid lush woods at Książ. It was built in the late 13th century by the Silesian Piast Duke Bolko I, acquired by the aristocratic von Hoberg (later Hochberg) family in 1509, and continuously
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Karkonosze National Park
Karkonosze National Park is a 55.75-sq-km belt that runs along the Polish–Czech border for some 25km. The two main settlements here are the resort towns of Szklarska Poręba and Karpacz.The range is divided by the Karkonosze Pass (Przełęcz Karkonoska; 1198m). The highest summit of t
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Church of Our Lady
Built between 1687 and 1693, and later surrounded by an ample rectangular cloister, the hugely popular church was built around four identical corner towers, all housing chapels. The best artists from Warmia, Königsberg (Kaliningrad) and Vilnius were commissioned for the furnishings
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Biebrza National Park
The Biebrza National Park is Polands largest and longest, stretching more than 100km from close to the Belarus border to the Narew River near Tykocin. Established in 1993, Biebrza (byehb -zhah) is a relatively new park but an important one, protecting the Biebrza Valley, Central Eu
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