Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, Stary Licheń, Poland

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View at dusk of the Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland, located in the village of Licheń Stary, near Konin, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The basilica, designed by Barbara Bielecka was built between 1994 and 2004. With a 120 metres (390 ft) long and 77 metres (253 ft) wide nave, a 98 metres (322 ft) high central dome, and a 141.5 metres (464 ft) high tower, it is Poland's largest church and one of the largest churches in the world.

Poznań is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland. There are many historic buildings and heritage sites, mostly concentrated around the Old Town and other parts of the city centre. Many of these lie on the Royal-Imperial Route – a walk leading through the most important parts of the city.

Poznań

Łódź is a city in central Poland, formerly known as a textile-manufacturing hub. Today, it is a thriving metropolis with a unique post-industrial history and a variety of attractions to explore.

Łódź

Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland. It is an architecturally rich city, with many styles present. The city is mostly associated with water, sports, Art Nouveau buildings, waterfront, music, and urban greenery. It is worth noting that Bydgoszcz boasts the largest city park in Poland.

Bydgoszcz

Toruń is a historical city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland. The city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings. Toruń is well known for Toruń gingerbread, a type of piernik often made in elaborate molds.

Toruń

Jeziorsko is a dam reservoir on the Warta River, the largest reservoir and retention basin in the Lodz region. It is a great place for relaxation, hiking, and water sport activities.

Jeziorsko

Gniezno is a city in central-western Poland, about 50 kilometers east of Poznań. It was the first historical capital of Poland in the 10th century and early 11th century.

Gniezno

Biskupin is an archaeological site and a life-size model of a late Bronze Age fortified settlement in north-central Poland that also serves as an archaeological open-air museum. The site is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments.

Biskupin

Ciechocinek is a unique spa town in north-central Poland, known for its saline graduation towers that are used for curing various diseases.

Ciechocinek

Uniejów is a spa town known for its Thermal Park which consists of a number of both outdoor and indoor thermal pools. Also, there is a 14th-century castle with a landscape park, regarded as one of the best-preserved parks of central Poland.

Uniejów

Kórnik Castle is a castle in the Polish town of Kórnik, which was constructed in the 14th century. The current look of the castle resembles Gothic Revival architecture, one of the popular historicising styles in the 19th century. The castle currently houses a museum and the Kórnik Library.

Kórnik Castle

The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń is a Roman Catholic church built between 1994 and 2004. With a tower measuring 141.5 meters in height, it is one of the tallest and largest churches in the world.

Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń

Kaplica komandorii templariuszy i joannitów.

Chwarszczany - kaplica templariuszy, cześć dawnej komandorii, Polska, woj. zachodniopomorskie. Fasada kaplicy.

Szczecin is a city of contrasts with a mix of architecture inherited from wildly different ages. The city has a unique character and is known for its monumental architecture and beautiful greenery. The city plan resembles that of Paris, and it is often called the Paris of the North.

Szczecin

The Crooked Forest is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo in north-western Poland. The site is open to the public and serves as a notable tourist attraction in the region.

Crooked Forest

Christ the King is a 33-meter tall statue of Jesus Christ in Świebodzin, western Poland, completed in 2010. It is the tallest Jesus statue in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Christ the King Statue

Kostrzyn (Küstrin) Fortress is a massive complex of fortifications on the border of Poland and Germany. It was erected and used between the 15th and 20th centuries. Currently the most of the former fortress buildings are located on the Polish side.

Kostrzyn Fortress

Drawa National Park is a part of the huge Drawsko Forest, which lies on the vast Drawsko Plain. The park is crossed by four attractive tourist trails, for both walking and kayaking. There are picturesque and deep valleys of rivers as well as numerous water channels, lakes and peat-bogs.

Drawa National Park

Kościół św. Stanisława Kostki w Chwarszczanach is a filial church, originally a chapel of the Knights Templar, now under the invocation of St. Stanislaus Kostka. It is one of the most valuable monuments of Western Pomerania.

Kościół św. Stanisława Kostki w Chwarszczanach

Wnętrze nieistniejącego kościoła w Trzęsaczu

Ruiny kościoła w Trzęsaczu w roku 1930.

Świnoujście is a city in Western Pomerania and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland. 
It has the widest sandy beach in Poland.
The sights worth visiting include the 170-year-old Spa Park and the Museum of Deep Sea Fishing and the Eastern Fort.

Świnoujście

Kołobrzeg, is a port city in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in north-western Poland. It provides a unique combination of a seaside resort, health resort, an old town full of historic monuments and tourist entertainment options.

Kołobrzeg

Mielno is a coastal resort town located on a spit between the Baltic Sea and Jamno lake. It is a well-known tourist destination with sandy beaches.

Mielno

Wolin National Park situated on the island of Wolin in the far north-west of the Poland. The Park contains a varied flora and fauna. Its attractions include the sea cliffs of Gosań and Kawcza Góra, and a wisent (European bison) sanctuary.

Wolin National Park

Jamno is a lake in northern Poland, close to the Baltic Sea. The lake is popularly used for sailing.

Lake Jamno

Drawsko Landscape Park is a protected area in north-western Poland. Within the Landscape Park are eight nature reserves.

Drawsko Landscape Park

The Church in Trzęsacz refers to a series of three churches built in Trzęsacz, Poland. The first, constructed of wood, was reportedly built in 1124; the second one, made of bricks, around 1270; and finally the third one, sometime in the late 14th or early 15th century.

Ruins of the church in Trzęsacz

Dębno (powiat nowotarski). Drewniany kościół gotycki św. Michała Archanioła

Kraków is the second-largest city in Poland and one of the oldest. In medieval times it was the capital of the Kingdom of Poland. Now Kraków is very popular among tourists because of the old town, which is surrounded by medieval castle walls. It contains dozens of restaurants and cobbled streets.

Kraków

The Wieliczka Salt Mine, located in southern Poland and excavated from the 13th century, has been producing table salt continuously since then. Its attractions include the shafts and passageways, an underground lake, four chapels and numerous statues carved by miners out of the rock salt.

Wieliczka Salt Mine

Zakopane is a town in the extreme south of Poland. It is a popular destination for mountaineering, skiing, and tourism. Zakopane lies in a valley between the Tatra Mountains and Gubałówka Hill. Popular tourist activity is taking a stroll through the town's most popular street: Krupówki.

Zakopane

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. It is a World Heritage Site since 1979 and has been preserved by the Polish government in memory of the 1.1 million people who died there during the Holocaust.

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Niedzica Castle, also known as Dunajec Castle, is a medieval stronghold located on the right bank of the Czorsztyn Reservoir in the village of Niedzica-Zamek. This castle was probably built in the early 14th century, probably on the site of an earlier defensive structure.

Niedzica Castle

Morskie Oko, or Eye of the Sea in English, is the largest and fourth-deepest lake in the Tatra Mountains, in southern Poland. It is located deep within the Tatra National Park in the Rybi Potok Valley, of the High Tatras mountain range.

Morskie Oko

Żywiec Brewery is one of the largest breweries and beer producers in Poland. The brewery museum offers to visit guided tours, manufacturing museum and a beer cellar.

Zywiec Brewery Museum

Tropsztyn Castle is a reconstruction of a defensive castle near the Czchowskie lake. The history of the castle is connected with the village of Tropie, located on the opposite side of the river.

Tropsztyn Castle

Ojców National Park is the smallest national park in Poland, but it is the closest to Kraków and has many hiking and cycling pathes. The area is popular for its rock formations, which together with two river valleys form numerous limestone cliffs, canyons, and caves.

Ojcowski National Park

Silesian Beskids is a landscape park located in the Silesian province. It includes the forest-covered mountain ranges of Beskid Śląski: the Czantoria range and Barania Góra. The park is a popular place to visit throughout the year due to its variety of hiking, cycling, skiing trails.

Silesian Beskids Landscape Park

Michael Archangel's Church in Dębno is a Roman Catholic Gothic-wooden church from the fifteenth-century. The church is considered to be one of the oldest structures of its type in Poland. The church remains in its original structure, with a unique polychrome interior from around 1500.

St. Michael Archangel's Church

Buildings of Orthodox monastery in Supraśl, Poland from www.poczta-polska.pl/mw with the permission of the author. Photo from 2003.

Ogród renesansowy przy klasztorze w Supraślu

Church of the Annunciation, part of the Orthodox monastery in Supraśl, Poland from www.poczta-polska.pl/mw with the permission of the author. Photo from 2003.

Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland. The city is occupied by parks, squares and forest preserves which creates a unique and healthy climate. The Branicki Palace in Bialystok is a big complex with gardens, pavillons, sculptures, and other buildings such as city hall and monastery.

Białystok

Białowieża National Park is located in Eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It's called the "last untouched wilderness of Europe", because it has been free of human intervention for about 800 years. Also, it is known as a home to the world's largest population of European bison.

Białowieża National Park

Tykocin is a small town near the Białystok city and one of the oldest settlements in the region. Main toursit attractions are Tykocin Royal Castle and the Baroque Tykocin Synagogue, which is one of the best preserved in Poland from that period.

Tykocin

Biebrza National Park is the largest of Poland's 23 national parks. The most precious part of the park is its forests and marshes where hundreds of bird species live. There are many hiking routes where visitors enjoy the beauty of nature and diverse wildlife.

Biebrzański Park Narodowy

Wigry lake is situated in the forests of the Augustów Wilderness – trees grow on about 80% of its shoreline. There are 19 smaller and bigger islands on the lake. The lake and its adjacent area belong to the Wigry National Park. The lake is favored by canoeing and yachting enthusiasts.

Wigry Lake

The Park's landscape is predominantly made up by many varieties of marshes, reed beds, and there are also meadows and forests. One of the Park's attractions is a private archaeological museum, owned by Władysław Litwinczuk.

Narew National Park

Białe Augustowskie - is a ribbon lake in Augustów. The lakeside is well developed with numerous bays and spits. There are four islands in the lake.

Białe Augustowskie

Ziołowy Zakątek is a farm complex with historic farmhouses from the mid-19th century where you can stay. Also the complex includes herb house, old wind mill, ecological herb garden and farm animals.

Ziołowy Zakątek

The Monastery of the Annunciation in Supraśl, also known as the Supraśl Lavra is a monastery in North Eastern Poland. The complex includes Church of the Annunciation, and baroque monastery buildings, built between the 17th and 18th century.

Top 5 churches to visit in Poland:

Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń

Kościół św. Stanisława Kostki w Chwarszczanach

Ruins of the church in Trzęsacz

St. Michael Archangel's Church

Supraśl Orthodox Monastery