Palace Square of Warsaw
Warszawa, Plac ZamkowyPerhaps one from the most beautiful squares of Warsaw. Along its eastern side stretches the Royal Castle, built in the early 17th century on the site of a wooden fortress of the 14th century.
Royal Castle in Warsaw
Warszawa, Plac Zamkowy, 4One of the most visited museums in Warsaw is the Royal Castle. It is located at Castle Square, 4. The museum building is a reconstruction of the ensemble, which was completely destroyed during the Second World War.
Royal Castle in Krakow
Krakow, Wawel, 5Any tourist journey through Krakow begins with the Royal Castle on Wawel. For Poland, this castle has the same significance as for Russia - the Kremlin. Only the Kremlin remains the main symbol of statehood, but the castle has lost this status after the capital's transfer from Krakow.
Malbork
Malbork, Staroscinska, 1Malbork - Polish name, in German it sounds like Marienburg - was founded in 1276 as a castle of the Teutonic Order of Knights. The castle, with an area of about 20 hectares, is the largest gothic castle in Europe.
Auschwitz
CzernichowskaAuschwitz is the most famous concentration camp of the Second World War, located in the south of Poland, 60 km west of Krakow. The exact number of victims of this death camp is unknown until now, it is reliably established that prisoners who did not wait for freedom were at least a million people.
Warsaw market square
Warszawa, Rynek Starego MiastaHeart of the city - Market square surrounded by old houses with bizarre colorful facades. In the square is always crowded, coachmen waiting for riders on the droshky, artists selling their work ...
Krakow's Market Square
Krakow, Rynek GlownyKrakow's Market Square is one of the largest medieval squares in Europe. It was built already in 1257, and framing its buildings of the 14th and 15th centuries. buildings, found their current appearance in the 17-19 centuries. Although they preserved the Renaissance and Baroque periods: attics, portals, galleries of courtyards. The main attractions of the square, in addition to the market itself - the Town Hall Tower, the Church of St. Wojciech, the monument to Adam Mickiewicz, the Zbaraski Palace and, of course, the Mary's Church.
Stare Miasto
Warszawa, Stare MiastoWarsaw Stare Miasto, or Stavka, is the most beautiful part of the city, walking along which it is impossible to believe that all these buildings were built only in the last century.
Wilanow Palace
Warszawa, Stanislawa Kostki Potockiego, 10/16Baroque Palace with its adjacent garden - subject of national pride of the Poles. The royal royal residence was built at the end of the 17th century and was then constantly built up.
Wroclaw Zoo
Wrocław, Wroblewskiego, 1-5Wroclaw Zoo is the oldest and largest (by the number of inhabitants) in Poland. Officially, it is called the Wroclaw Zoological Garden. It is a beautiful landscape zoo, founded in 1865 as the Zoological Garden of Breslau, even at the time when the city belonged to Prussia.
Wroclaw Cathedral
Wrocław, plac Katedralny, 18The Cathedral in Wroclaw is consecrated in honor of John the Baptist. This is a very beautiful and majestic Gothic structure with neo-Gothic elements, which stands in the area of the island of Tumsky (Cathedral Island). The current church is already the fourth one that was built on this site.
Grunwald
Stebark, 14-107 GierzwałdGrunwald is the site of a great battle, a bloody battle, the military feat of thousands of troops, when a huge united Polish-Lithuanian army (about 29,000 soldiers) led by Vladislav Jagailo defeated the 21,000-strong army of the Teutonic Knights of the Crusaders.
Arthus Court
Gdansk, Dlugi Targ 43-44Courtyard Ar mustache in Gdansk - a beautiful medieval complex of stone buildings, which stands on the main Town Hall Square in the Fountain of Neptune. His name came directly from knightly times: the prototype of such Courts was the legend of King Arthur's court and the Round table.
Bishops' Palace
Krakow, Francyszkanska, 3The Bishop's Palace is one of the city's attractions, connected with Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II. In the 60-70's. The last century he lived in this building, and after the election he continued to periodically come here. In the courtyard of the Bishop's Palace there is a monument to the beloved Poles of the Pope.
Zhurav
Gdansk, Szeroka, 67/68over Motlava, undoubtedly, "makes" the sight of Gdansk from the river. He looks extremely characteristic and recognizable. No photo of the panorama should not do without its slightly strange profile reminiscent of a Tetris figurine, not up to the priest, or a birdhouse for herons.
Hall of the century in Wroclaw
Wrocław, Wystawowa, 1The Centennial Hall in Wrocław, formerly known as the People's Hall, is a historic building built by the architect Max Berg in 1911-1913, when the city was part of the German Empire. In the building and around it you can often see tourists.
Kszensky Castle
Walbrzych, Piastow Slaskich, 1In Poland many beautiful attractions, but the most popular among tourists today is the castle Kszę.. The palace, built in the 13th century, is located near the town of Walbrzych, 80 km from Wroclaw and 460 km from the Polish capital.
Historical Museum of Warsaw
Warszawa, Rynek Starego Miasta, 28-42Eight picturesque neighboring buildings in the center of Warsaw, on Old Miast, are given under the branch of the National Museum, which is called the Historical Museum of the Capital City of Warsaw. The historical museum of the capital of Warsaw is one of the most important and popular sights of Poland.
Kazimierz
Krakow, KazimierzKazimierz is a Jewish city, which only in the 19th century became part of Krakow. In Kazimierz the most famous buildings are the church of St. Catharine and the Church of the Body of the Lord, as well as orthodox synagogues, old cemeteries, a gymnasium, the center of Jewish culture. In this suburb, the famous Steven Spielberg film "Schindler's List" - about the Holocaust during the Second World War - was taken.
Krakow Aquapark
Krakow, Dobrego Pasterza, 126Krakow Water Park is one of the largest in Eastern Europe. Here visitors all year round waiting for a lot of swimming pools, slides, saunas, jacuzzi and paths. The slides impress with their dimensions: the longest - 202 meters - has no analogues in Europe. It's three minutes of fantastic descent, which ends with a dizzying fall in the water.
Warsaw
The capital of Poland is one of the most visited cities of the country, thanks to the famous Warsaw Old Town (Stare Myasto, Starywka, 13th c.), Which is on the UNESCO list of monuments. Carefully restored after World War II, the old houses, moat, Barbakan watchtower - everything creates a unique charming look of old Poland.
Places Zamkovs (Palace Square) is crowned with a column of Sigismund and the Royal Castle with a clock tower and the Gateway to the Gates. Sventoyan Street is famous for its main church - the cathedral of St. John, the church of the Jesuit Fathers. Parade Sventojanska also solemnly breaks into the spacious Market Square, where you can admire the facades of the houses "Under Muzhinkem", "Under St. Anna", "Under the Basilisk" ("Under Basilisk").
Romantic antiquity breathes the streets of Pekelka, Zemna, Zapec. The Castle Square is the starting point of the Royal Route, which includes the streets of Krakowsk Przedmestie, Nowy Svyat and Alya Ujazdovsk, dotted with remarkable specimens of medieval architecture. The palace and park complex of Royal Lazienki is crowned with a monument to F. Chopin and the excellent park "Palace on the Island."
Częstochowa $$$
Among the picturesque Jurassic mountains, right in the center of the Cracow-Częstochowa Plateau lies the religious center of Poland. It's no secret that Czestochowa is the abode of the monastery at Jasna Góra, the main Marian shrine of the country. The icon of the Black Madonna - Queen and Patroness of Poland has miraculous properties, pilgrims say. No less curious Knight's Hall, Arsenal, many try to visit the Museum of the 600th anniversary of the monastery.
Kraków
"The cradle of the old Rzeczpospolita", now the former capital of Poland, has not lost its charm over the years, increasing historical treasures. Krakow, or rather, its Old part, which is firmly embraced by the parks of Planty, is the location of hundreds of valuable monuments, and the Krakow Old Town is on the list of the twelve most valuable monuments of the world heritage of UNESCO culture.
The main square of the city is the Market, where the former shopping arcades of the Sukennitsa were preserved, the upper floors of which were occupied by the picture gallery of the National Museum of Krakow.
The fortress hill on the bank of the Vistula Wawel is far visible, thanks to the pointed towers of Zlodeiskaya, Sandomirskaya and Senatorskaya, and the pompous Royal Castle stores the coronation sword Shcherbets and a unique collection of medieval tapestries. There is also the Cathedral of Saints Stanislaus and Vaclav and the Zigmunt Chapel (Sigismund) with the famous 11-ton bell "Zygmunt". His ringing with anxiety fills the hearts of people, because it is made to sound the turning points in the life of the country.
Krakow environs
Wieliczka, or rather the ancient salt mine, also included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, is located 10 km from Krakow. The place of pilgrimage is Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, which is 40 km from Krakow. In the passionate week here pass the Lord of the Mysteries, in which thousands of pilgrims participate.
Poznan
Having seen the bad times of the state, medieval Poznan concentrated its historical wealth on the "Tumsky Island". Here, the ancient gothic church of Poland and the Golden Chapel with tombstones Mieszko I and Boleslaw Hrabrom, who first ascended the Polish throne, found their shelter. The Old Market with the Historical Museum in the Town Hall building is an excellent walking area. The main character of all the tourist photos is the church of St. Wojciech and the monastery of the Barefoot Carmelites, symbols of the city.
Cornice
The museum with a collection of antique furniture, paintings and objects of history is in Corniche, a town 20 km from Poznan, there are also clumps of dendrological parks known in Poland.