Interesting Places in Poland

Julia Górska

Łazienki Królewskie w Warszawie

Łazienki Park is the largest park in Warsaw, Poland, occupying 76 hectares of the city center. The park-and-palace complex lies in Warsaw's central district (Śródmieście), on Ujazdów Avenue on the "Royal Route" linking the Royal Castle with Wilanów palace to the south. North of Łazienki Park, on the other side of Agrykola Street, stands Ujazdów Castle.

Rynek we WrocławiuThe Market Square, Wrocław is a medieval market square in Wrocław, now the heart of a pedestrian zone. The square is rectangular with the dimensions 213 x 178m. It is one of the largest markets in Europe, with the largest two town halls in Poland.

Słowiński Park NarodowySłowiński National Park is a National Park in Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern Poland. It is situated on the Baltic coast, between Łeba and Rowy. The northern boundary of the Park consists of 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) of coastline.

Kraina Wielkich Jezior MazurskichMasurian Lake District (842.83) - mezo, located in northern Poland, covering the central part of the Mazury Lake District with an area of 1732 km², of which 486 km² occupy the lake. To the south it borders the Mazury Plain, east of Elk Lake District, north of the Land Węgorapa, and to the west of the Lake District and Lowland Sępopolska Mrągowo. The lakes are connected Masurianchannels. On land, mostly covered with forest dominates the landscape młodoglacjalny, which was formed in the Neogene.

Ziemia Kłodzka

Kłodzko Land is a historical region (ziemia) in southwestern Poland. Geographically speaking Kłodzko Land consists of the Kłodzko Valley and the surrounding Sudetes mountains. It is named after its capital city, Kłodzko.

Pałac Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie

The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland and the eighth tallest building in the European Union.The building was conceived as a "gift from the Soviet people to the Polish nation", and was completed in 1955. The structure was built in three years according to the design of the Soviet architect Lev Rudnev. Architecturally, it is a mix of Socialist realism and Polish historicism inspired by American art deco skyscrapers. Currently it is the headquarters of many companies and public institutions, such as cinemas, theaters, libraries, sports clubs, universities, scientific institutions and authorities of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Przełom Dunajca

The Dunajec River Gorge runs through the Pieniny Mountains in the south of Poland and the north of Slovakia (as Dunajec is the border river between the two countries in the area). The gorge is characterized by some of the most interesting geological and geomorphological structures and area-specific natural ecosystems with little anthropogenic influence.