Curated Itinerary
A September Week in Poland: Ten Heritage Sites
Travel tips from CHOIn September, the doors that are usually shut openFor one long weekend every September, some fifty European […]
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From St Mary’s Basilica: 159 years to build the world’s largest brick church, the ‘Crown of Gdańsk’ to Zamość – Virtual Tour 360°, in the order we curated them.
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St Mary’s Basilica: 159 years to build the world’s largest brick church, the ‘Crown of Gdańsk’
St Mary's in Gdansk: the first stone was laid in 1343 and the work went on for 159 years, making it the largest brick church in the world.
Malbork Castle
The world's largest castle by land area, this monumental Brick Gothic fortress was built by the Teutonic Order and later became a Polish royal residence.
Medieval Town of Toruń
The city of Copernicus and gingerbread, and the finest surviving medieval Hanseatic city in Poland — Toruń (German: Thorn, the name by which it was long…
St. John’s Archcathedral, Warsaw
Warsaw's mother church and Poland's most prestigious Catholic temple, this Brick Gothic archcathedral stands in the UNESCO-listed Old Town…
Wrocław — Max Berg’s Centennial Hall and Early Modernism
In the German city of Breslau, now Polish Wrocław, Max Berg poured one of the boldest concrete domes of its age. The result reads today as a manifesto for…
Kraków Old Town – Virtual Tour 360°
Kraków's medieval Old Town is Europe's largest medieval town square and one of the continent's best-preserved urban cores, now encircled by verdant Planty Park.
Wawel Castle
Poland's most significant historical site and premier art museum, Wawel Castle crowns a limestone ridge above Kraków with Renaissance architecture, royal…
Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines – Virtual Tour 360°
The most extraordinary underground world in Europe — the Wieliczka Salt Mine (Kopalnia Soli Wieliczka), 14 km south-east of Kraków, was in continuous…
Zamość – Virtual Tour 360°
Zamość is a Renaissance town designed and built in one generation by an Italian architect for a Polish chancellor, and its arcaded square still shows that original plan.
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It opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.