Currently Kutno is a 50-thousand people industrial town, but it retains its ancient layout with two market squares, and a 19th-century town hall housing the Regional Museum. The Old Town of Kutno is being restored and is improving, step-by-step.

Among other interesting places there is former inn from the 18th century and a historical railway station. You should also visit the Gieralty palace, surrounded with a relaxing park and the Museum of the Bzura Battle, which collects and displays mementos, photographs, weapons and documents from the sorrowful days of September 1939.

Kutno takes pride in the many famous people who visited the town, among them the Polish king Augustus III, Napoleon Bonaparte, Polish writer and Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz and Charles de Gaulle.