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Historical Places in Poland

The historic Centre of Krakow is the former capital of Poland, enriched by the fascinating history, culture, and spirituality of Poles. The former capital city is a center of national monuments, World cultural and natural heritage sites in its own right so, it’s worth spending time in the city center, exploring most of the important monuments and covering routes that Polish Kings used to travel throughout the ages.

Start your trip by visiting the most beautiful Polish historical sites like the Barbican and St. Florian’s Gate. Heading a few steps inside the city, you can admire the majestic Juliusz Slowacki Theater to an appealing side street with the former Arsenal and the Princes Czartoryski Museum. Spend time strolling many hours on the charming Main Market Square surrounded by remarkable palaces and townhouses of aristocratic and bourgeois families.

Location:- Krakow, Krakow County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

The Bialowieza Forest comes under one of the historical places in Poland, immensely stretched across the margin of Poland and Belarus. The transboundary World Heritage site is home to a wide range of European bison, an iconic species, and offers biodiversity conservation.

Explore the large expanse of primeval forest recognized as Poland’s natural wealth and diversity flourished with its best-preserved natural delights like thoughts of plant and animal species, decaying wood, swampy meadows, fallen leaves on the European lowland.  Apart from a mixed forest area, the Bialowieza region comprises other attractions such as borderland landscapes, multicultural heritage to host large visitors.

Location-: Grodno and Brest regions, Belarus; Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland.

Among the historical places in Poland, be sure to explore the Old Town in Warsaw enchanted with a unique atmosphere of narrow streets and vibrant buildings. Arrange a meeting to some oldest monuments and charming squares of the capital city Warsaw. The Old Town never fails to amuse you with its interesting history and World heritage list!

Visit the centerpiece of the square, a statue of the Warsaw Mermaid, meant as the emblem and guardian of the city. Take a cozy stroll along the picturesque walls, visit the famous Museum of Warsaw or choose to step into the Old Town Cellars Route.

Location-: Southern direction from the New Town and north of Krakowskie Przedmie?cie.

The Malbork castle is apparently the old structure and one of the best historical places in Poland to admire the mightiest fortress of medial Europe. The beautiful castle houses countless exhibitions, amber, furniture, glass and china art, and much more antiques to discover. You can often opt to have night tours of the castle’s interiors and courtyards.

The spectacular Gothic brick castle with a unique style of the Teutonic Order built by Knights of the Teutonic Order demonstrates the drama of Christianity in the late Middle Ages. Explore around each of three castles circumscribed by defensive walls and don’t miss to witness a panoramic view of Malbork Castle from the west bank of the River Nougat. Also, have a great time visiting the Amber Museum within the castle premises.

Location-: Staroscinska 1, 82-200 Malbork, Poland.

Have an exceptional visit to one of Poland's World Heritage Sites, the Medieval Town of Torun that preserves sensational old street patterns and early buildings which will take you back to medieval days.

In the medieval town, you shall come across some of the regional museums featuring wonderful antiques, the Cathedral of SS John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, St James’ Church with Gothic architecture, St Mary’s Church richly adorned with historical values, and many more well preserved medieval architectures. It’s impossible to not fall in love with the authenticity of the medieval town center once you set out on a day trip to Torun.

Location-: Torun, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.

A town in southern Poland named Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a breathtaking cultural landscape and spiritual getaway for pilgrims set between two mountain ranges of Krakow. The serene location has been a popular spiritual destination for thousands of pilgrims each year and is notable among European Calvaries for its Mannerist architectural features blended with the untouched tradition of mysteries enacted here.

It’s a beautiful destination to add spirituality to your journey and get close to Christ’s Passion and life of the Virgin Mary amazingly themed at the pilgrim Park, a garden of prayer. Make sure you visit the harmonious place which symbolically represents the events of the Passion of Christ in the form of chapels and paths.

Location-: Southern Poland.

While in Poland, it is impossible to escape the history of the old city of Zamosc. Being one of the historical places in Poland, the place is dominated by an extraordinary achievement in architecture and urban design such as the magnificent Baroque Town Hall, the Academy of Zamosc, the monuments which have a collection of weapons and the Rotunda used to murder by Nazis during World War II.

Spoken of as a Renaissance town, you’ll definitely be adapted to Polish local tradition and urbanism of the 16th and 17th centuries. Enjoy walking and relaxing around the town’s fortifications, famous wooden churches, colorful old market square, the Zamosc Museum which is worth visiting.

Location-: Zamosc, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.

Wawel Castle is one of the impressive historical monuments set upon a limestone hill in the center of Krakow and the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world. The glorious castle perched on the hill is a symbol of national pride, self-rule, hope, and partition. Head to the beautiful location and admire the Polish version of British Buckingham Palace and Westminster abbey assorted with Romanesque, Renaissance, and Gothic architecture.

This heavily fortified wall never fails to inspire people with its must-see highlights, who admire the country’s past and legacy. An exploration of the castle’s historical interiors, courtyards, and open spaces is the most recommended thing.

Location-: Wawel 5, 31-001 Krakow, Poland.

Visit Wieliczka Salt Mine, one of the Poland historical sites and UNESCO recognized heritage sites that include many attractions like the shafts, and labyrinthine passageways, displays of historic salt-mining technology, an underground lake, chapels, numerous statues, sculptures by contemporary artists.

It's an absolute delight to visit a place where the royal salt mine was operated from Neolithic times. Have fun exploring the deep underground, along the labyrinth of tunnels and chambers. You’ll be visiting highlights like Salt Lake, awe-inspiring Stanislaw Staszic Chamber, Krakow Saltworks Museums along with different levels of the mine. After the tour, you can relax at an underground restaurant inside it.

Location-: Danilowicz 10, 32-020 Wieliczka, Poland.

Your trip will remain incomplete without a visit to Wilanow Palace, the most famed historical place in Poland. Before becoming a national treasure in the 20th century, the palace was laid with an Italian-style baroque, and gardens around it had served as home to several royal families. Now, the Wilanow Castle is one of the oldest repositories of the country’s royal heritage, artifacts, and paintings.

The grand landmark is a museum of King Jan III Sobieski, featuring one of the masterpieces of Polish architecture, the Gallery of Polish Portraiture, an incredibly maintained beautiful garden and buildings inside it. Explore the palace’s rich collection of royal heritage and interiors displaying exquisite historical sculptures and portraits.

Location-: Stanis?awa Kostki Potockiego 10/16, 02-958 Warszawa, Poland.

The spectacular Polish museum and one of the historical places in Poland named Warsaw Rising Museum is something you need to pay a visit to at the earliest. Dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, the museum sponsors a rich history of the uprising, collections of hundreds of artifacts ranging from weapons to love letters, and many recordings of the stories and memories of Polish civilization.

The museum is a tribute to Warsaw’s residents to those who took part in the battles and fought for Poland’s independence and its free capital. You’ll have a great experience at the museum, eye- witnessing all the historic stories at the time of the Rising and post-war years of the Communist regime portrayed through exhibitions and panoramic movie screens.

Location-: Grzybowska 79, 00-844 Warszawa, Poland.

Get blown away by one of Poland's historical sites, The Barbakan or Krakow Barbican, a 15th-century gothic fortress that serves as a museum representing remarkable antiques of medieval engineering. The Barbakan fortress still dominates other historical charms with its wooden walkways, exhibition centers, and historical museums reflecting the fortresses' architecture.

Explore most of the diverse history of Poland through a special visit to the city’s northern gate, the Barbakan, a well-known defensive structure in Europe built in Gothic style in 1498 1st 1499, in order to protect Krakow and the Florian Gate.

Location-: Krakow, Poland.

Get thrilled to experience a wonderful tour of Auschwitz Birkenau’s fortified walls, barbed wire, barracks, gallows, gas chambers, and cremation oven which shows the Nazi’s nerve-wracking cruel attempts like tortures, murder in the camp to kill a great number of Jewish men, women, and children and also ten thousands of Polish victims.

Get a detailed idea about the main mass extermination camp which was built with an aim of mass murder of Jewish people in Europe. Now, the notorious concentration camp stands as a monument to signify the strength of the human spirit and a key place of memory for the whole of humankind for the Holocaust, racist policies, and the dark chapter in the history of humanity.

Location-: German-occupied Poland, Town of Oswiecim in southern Poland.