Curated Itinerary
A September Week in Poland: Ten Heritage Sites
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St Mary’s Basilica: 159 years to build the world’s largest brick church, the ‘Crown of Gdańsk’
La prima pietra della nuova chiesa in mattoni fu posata il 25 marzo 1343, festa dell'Annunciazione; ci vollero 159 anni, fino al 1502, per completare…
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…
Royal Castle, Warsaw
A former royal residence in Warsaw's Old Town, this 16th-century castle was destroyed in World War II and painstakingly reconstructed.
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
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
The most extraordinary underground world in Europe — the Wieliczka Salt Mine (Kopalnia Soli Wieliczka), 14 km south-east of Kraków, was in continuous…
Zamość
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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