A beautifully preserved medieval Gothic town of red brick on the Vistula River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, whose house is a museum. Toruń is also famous for its gingerbread, made here since the Middle Ages; bake your own at the Gingerbread Museum.
See the leaning tower, the ruins of the Teutonic castle, and the view of the old town from across the river. It's about 2.5 hours by train from Warsaw.
The largest castle in the world by land area, a huge red-brick Gothic fortress built by the Teutonic Knights from the 13th century beside the Nogat R…
Gdańsk's main street and square, the Long Market, is lined with tall, richly decorated merchants' houses from the city's days as a wealthy Hanseatic …
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…
Wrocław's market square is one of the largest in Europe, surrounded by colourful houses, with an ornate Gothic Town Hall in the middle.
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…
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