Alternative Top 10 Poland Highlights
BIALOWIEZA FORESTProbably the only intact primeval forest in Europe. Deeply deep. A highly protected biosphere area on the border with Byelorussia. The reserve of European bison (żubr), an animal extinct elsewhere. Plenty of wild game. Orthodox churches and two surviving Tartar mosques. read more...ELBLAG-OSTRODA CANAL (Der Oberländische Kanal)A masterpiece of the 19th century Prussian engineering. An 81-kilometres long network of canals - a sophisticated system of choke-points, locks and slip-ways. Take an 11-hour voyage; there will be three slip-ways when your boat is hauled by large rail-bound carriages transporting you over stretches with no water. Quizzical. read more...KALWARIA ZEBRZYDOWSKABeautiful pilgrimage site dear to Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła was born 4 kilometres away in Wadowice). Baroque Bernardine monastery with a Via Dolorosa (the Stations of the Cross) - a long sequence of chapels and Marian stations. A UNESCO landmark. read more...KAZIMIERZ DOLNYThe best known of the many small Polish towns with charismatic Renaissance cores. A romantic castle ruin, Baroque churches, Three Cross's Hill, winding streets and a ferry across the Vistula River. A supreme artistic place. read more...LODZ (Lodsch, Lodz)Lodz may rarely be listed among the most important tourist destinations, but it definitely deserves promotion. The second-biggest city in Poland has been nicknamed Polish Manchester, harking thus back to its strong textile industry tradition. You can spot cotton mills, beautiful Art Nouveau architecture, Jewish monuments and the longest Polish street Piotrkowska. The mecca of Polish film industry features rowdy nightlife. read more...SLOWINSKI NATIONAL PARKA great, exotic natural attraction - 44 metres tall shifting sand dunes (wydmy) at the banks of Lake Łebsko. Desert-like landscape used to be a training ground for Rommel's Afrika Korps, missiles V1 and V2 were tested here. Now an important biosphere reserve and haven for rare bird species. An open-air folk museum nearby. read more...TORUN (Thorn, Torun)UNESCO listed the mediaeval town of Torun as world heritage. Similarly to Krakow it was not destroyed during WW II. Nicolas Copernicus - the founder of the heliocentric theory (that the Earth rotates around the Sun) born here. Pay a visit to his interesting museum. See the Teutonic UNESCO heritage German heritagecastle andthe leaning tower (like the one in Italian Pisa). Numerous cellar pubs: Torun is a well-known university town. Delicious gingerbread. Organ music. read more...TREBLINKAThe saddest place you may ever visit in your life. The Nazi located the second biggest extermination camp 80 kilometres east from Warsaw. In contrast to Auschwitz they managed to tidy up all traces of their atrocities. You will find yourself in the middle of nothingness along with several thousands of silent standing stones. read more...WIELICZKAAncient salt mines (in operation for 700 years). The small Krakow's suburb ranks to the most famous tourist destinations in Eastern Europe. Often described as a fairy tale kingdom made of salt. A mysterious labyrinth of 300 kilometres of halls and corridors hewn in pure salt (the lowest are 372 meters underground). The 2.5-hours guided tours shows just a short stretch including a salt lake, caves and the beautiful Queen Kinga's Chapel. read more...ZAMOSCAnother UNESCO-highlighted Renaissance civitas. Zamosc is fairly off-the-beaten-track and Eastern, unscathed by wars and very much preserved. Until present times encircled with fortification wall, Zamosc was intended by its builder, the powerful 16th century chancellor Jan Zamoyski as a town in ideal shape. Zamoyski Palace, Zamoyski Academy, beautiful tenement houses. read more... |
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