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Chopins Birthplace
If it wasnt for Polands most famous musician, Żelazowa Wola (zheh-lah-zo -vah vo -lah) wouldnt be on the tourist map. This tiny village 53km west of Warsaw is the birthplace of Frédéric Chopin, and the house where he was born on 22 February 1810 has been restored and furnished in p
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Florian Gate
This attractive stone gateway is the only one of the city’s original eight gates that was not dismantled during the 19th-century modernisation. It was built around 1300, although the top is a later addition. The adjoining walls, together with two towers, have also been left standin
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Gdańsk Shipyard
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 wall appeared when discontent with the regime boiled over into strikes and dissent, brutally stamped out by armed force in 1970.
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Majdanek
Four kilometres southeast of the centre of Lublin is the German-Nazi Majdanek extermination camp, where tens of thousands of people, mainly Jews, were murdered during WWII. The Germans went to no effort to conceal Majdanek, as they did at other extermination camps. A 5km walk start
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Foregate
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) to the east, linked to one another by two walls. When the Upland Gate was built, the Foregate lost its defensive function and was
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Main Pump Room
This modern structure on the main promenade (ul Nowotarskiego) looks more like a retro-futuristic airport terminal than a spa colonnade. Still, it’s the main game in town when it comes to taking the cure. Select from a menu of eight different mineral springs, with each spring purpo
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Rynek
The Old Town’s market square contains a bit of every architectural style, from Baroque to postwar concrete structures, the cumulative effect of rebuilding after successive fires and the damage caused by Austrian, Prussian and Napoleonic sieges. The bright yellow town hall dates fro
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Museum of Folk Architecture
Sanok’s Museum of Folk Architecture is Poland’s largest skansen (open-air museum of traditional architecture). You’ll find around 120 historic buildings here and gain insight into the cultures of the Boyks and Lemks. Among the highlights are four timber churches, an inn, a school a
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Cathedral Basilica of St James
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. It’s the early 1970s renovation you’ll notice first, an incongruously modern facade more reminiscent of a derelict factory than
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Regional Museum
Augustóws regional museum is housed in two locations. The most interesting collection is dedicated to the history of the Augustów Canal and is housed in this quaint, 19th-century wooden cabin a short walk from the pleasure boat wharf. The other section, several blocks from the Ryne
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Benedictine Monastery of Holy Cross
This hilltop monastery got its name from the segment of Jesus’ cross that was supposedly kept here. The abbey is at the top of Łysa Góra (595m) – the second-highest peak in the Świętokrzyski range after Łysica (612m). It has a fascinating history going back nearly a millennium. Mos
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Czartoryski Museum
The Czartoryski Museum boasts the citys richest art collection, including Krakóws most valuable painting: Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine . Among other important works is Rembrandt’s Landscape with the Good Samaritan . Other exhibitions include Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Et
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Museum of Forestry
To the south of Gołuchóws castle, this museum is housed in a former distillery which was considerably extended in 1874. It contains displays on the history of Polish forestry and the timber industry, along with a collection of contemporary art.Entry includes the museums annexe, eas
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Saxon Gardens
Stretching out a couple of blocks west of ul Krakowskie Przedmieście, these magnificent gardens date from the early 18th century and were the city’s first public park. Modelled on the French gardens at Versailles, the gardens are filled with chestnut trees and Baroque statues (alle
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Wang Church
Karpacz has a curious architectural gem – the Wang Church, the only Nordic Romanesque building in Poland. This remarkable wooden structure in Upper Karpacz was one of about 400 such chapels built at the turn of the 12th century on the bank of Lake Vang in southern Norway; only 28 o
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Chapel of Our Lady
The oldest part of the Paulite Monastery of Jasna Góra contains the revered Black Madonna .The picture is unveiled at 6am and 1.30pm (2pm Saturday and Sunday) and covered again at noon and 9.20pm (1pm and 9.20pm Saturday and Sunday). Be sure to note the walls displaying votive offe
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Wigry National Park
On the northern fringes of Augustów Forest, Wigry National Park is home to arguably the most beautiful lake in Podlasie – Lake Wigry. At 21 sq km, the lake is the largest in the region and one of the deepest, reaching 73m at its greatest depth. Its shoreline is richly indented, for
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Żuraw
Part of the National Maritime Museum , the oh-so conspicuous Gdańsk Crane (Żuraw) rises above the waterfront. Built in the mid-15th century as the biggest double-towered gate on the shoreline, it also served to shift heavy cargo directly onto vessels docked at the quay. Incredibly,
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National Museum
Containing almost 800,000 items in its permanent galleries, this is the largest museum in the country. Highlights include the Faras Collection, a display of early Christian art originating from a town on the banks of the Nile that was rescued by Polish archaeologists from the risin
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Oliwa Cathedral
The first surprise as you approach the cathedral is the facade, a striking composition of two slim octagonal Gothic towers with a central Baroque portion wedged between them. The interior looks extraordinarily long, mainly because of the unusual proportions of the building – the na
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