Wrocław's market square is one of the largest in Europe, surrounded by colourful houses, with an ornate Gothic Town Hall in the middle. Look out for the hundreds of little bronze dwarves (krasnale) hidden around the city, a fun hunt with children.
Walk to Ostrów Tumski, the cathedral island, where a lamplighter lights the gas lamps by hand every evening. The Racławice Panorama is a huge 19th-century circular painting of a battle. The city has many bridges over the Oder.
The largest Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.
One of the largest medieval squares in Europe, at the heart of Kraków's old town, with the Renaissance Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) in the middle, full of…
The hill above the Vistula where Polish kings were crowned and buried.
A beautifully preserved medieval Gothic town of red brick on the Vistula River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the birthplace of the astronomer Nic…
A salt mine worked for 700 years, with an underground world of chambers, lakes and chapels carved from rock salt, including the vast Chapel of St Kin…
Warsaw's Old Town was almost completely destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt brick by brick from paintings and old photographs, so faithfully that it's a UN…
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