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Lubuski Regional Museum
The regional museum houses a collection of Silesian religious art from the 14th to 18th centuries, a fascinating clock gallery and a permanent exhibition of artwork by Marian Kruczek (1927–83). Kruczek used everyday objects – anything from buttons to spark plugs – to create strikin
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House of the Olsztyn Gazette
The Museum of Warmia & Masuria’s main annexe is housed in the former Gazeta Olsztyńska newspaper building. The Polish paper was famed for its outspoken politics in German Allenstein, so when the Nazis marched in it was closed down and its editors sent off to Dachau. Half of the
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St Catherine’s Church
The largest monument of the Old Town is St Catherine’s Church, Gdańsks oldest, which was begun in the 1220s. It was the parish church for the entire town until St Mary’s was completed. As is common, the church evolved over centuries and only reached its final shape in the mid-15th
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Psychiatric Hospital
In May 1940 popular British novelist PG Wodehouse, creator of the masterful valet Jeeves and his hapless employer Bertie Wooster, was captured by the German army at his home in France. In September he was moved to a civilian internment camp within the grounds of this psychiatric ho
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Kashubian Ethnographic Park
Some 16km south of Kościerzyna, Wdzydze Kiszewskie is a tiny village with a big attraction, namely the Kashubian Ethnographic Park, an open-air museum displaying the typical rural architecture of Kashubia. Established in 1906 by the local schoolmaster, this was Poland’s first open-
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Palace Park
Palace Park was laid out in the 19th century around a splendid residence built for the Russian tsar, on the site of an ancient royal hunting lodge once used by Polish kings. The southern entrance to Palace Park, beside the PTTK office, leads across a pond past a stone obelisk, whic
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Dragon’s Den
If you’ve had enough of high art and Baroque furnishings, complete your Wawel trip with a visit to the cheesy Dragon’s Den, former home of the legendary Wawel Dragon and an easy way to get down from Wawel Hill. The entrance to the cave is next to the Thieves’ Tower (Baszta Złodziej
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St Nicholas Church
Dating from the 13th century, this church was originally Gothic but has been modernised several times. The painting Descent from the Cross over the high altar is a copy. The original, painted in Rubens’ workshop around 1617 and donated to the church, was burnt or stolen during a my
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Dwarves of Wrocław
See if you can spot the diminutive statue of a resting dwarf at ground level, just to the west of the Hansel and Gretel houses off Wrocławs main square. A few metres away you’ll spot firemen dwarves, rushing to put out a blaze. These figures are part of a collection of over 300 sca
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Chełm Chalk Tunnels
The city’s star attraction is an array of chalk passages hewn by hand 12m below ground. The chalk mine began in medieval times. By the 16th century the chalk extracted was renowned throughout the country. Visits are by guided-tour (in Polish only); tours depart at 11am, 1pm and 4pm
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Kruszyniany Mosque
Beautiful green mosque, built by the Muslim Tatars who settled here at the end of the 17th century. Its a rustic wooden construction, in many ways similar to old timber Christian churches. Youll find it hidden in a cluster of trees, set back from the main road. The mosques modest i
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Explorers’ Museum
This is usually the last subdivision of the Regional Museum on visitors’ mental itineraries, which is a shame as it tells an interesting story. It contains artefacts from the amassed collection of seasoned nomad Tony Halik (1921–98), including his battered suitcases, travel documen
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Museum of the Grunwald Battlefield
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 Teutonic Knights on 15 July 1410, the Museum of the Grunwald Battlefield has a minuscule display of period armour, maps and battle ban
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St Mary’s Basilica
The hill in the middle of Chełm is crowned with the white St Mary’s Basilica and a complex of religious buildings that were once a bishop’s palace and a monastery. The late-Baroque basilica was rebuilt in the mid-18th century on the site of the 13th-century church that originally s
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Open
This 80-hectare skansen (open-air museum of traditional architecture) is located in the village of Tokarnia, about 20km from Kielce. It’s a pleasant half-day outing, particularly for kids. Several minibuses from Kielce pass Tokarnia on their way to other destinations, as do five no
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Ulica Mariacka
The most atmospheric of all Gdańsks streets and one of Poland’s most photogenic lanes is this length of cobbles between the waterfront St Mary’s Gate and the red-brick hulk of St Mary’s Church. Almost completely re-created after WWII, mostly on the basis of old documents, photograp
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Morasko Meteorite Reserve
Great balls of fire! Just 10km from the centre of Poznań is the Morasko Meteorite Reserve, one of just two registered meteorite impact sites in Europe. The idea of flaming space rock crash-landing in the peaceful forest here may seem bizarre, but that’s exactly what happened roughl
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Museum of Warmia & Masuria
A well-rubbed bronze of Copernicus welcomes you to Olsztyns massive red-brick 14th-century castle, the most important historic building in town. And its the Copernicus association that makes this the towns top sight, the astronomer as administrator of Warmia having lived in the cas
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Świętokrzyski National Park
This national park covers around 60 sq km and was established to protect the Świętokrzyski (Holy Cross) Mountains, Poland’s oldest mountainous geological formation (and lowest, due to erosion over more than 300 million years). Unusual piles of broken gołoborza (quartzite rock) on t
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Golub Castle
Golub’s square-set castle overlooks the town from a hill, the prominent structure consisting of a massive Gothic brick base topped with a slightly more refined Renaissance cornice. The original 14th-century castle was converted into a Renaissance palace in the early 17th century du
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