Poland

The Schindler Factory Museum is a modern interactive museum that was opened in 2010. This museum is dedicated to the life of Krakow and the Jewish ghetto during the German occupation from 1939 to 1945. The building for the museum is the former factory of metalware “Rekord”, bought by the famous German industrialists Oskar Schindler […]

Malbork Castle (Marienburg) founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1274 in honor of the Virgin Mary. In 1309 it became the residence of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. During the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, Malbork withstood a siege by Polish-Lithuanian troops, but was sold for debts. In the XVII century, the fortress […]

The Białowieski Forest National Park in Poland. Tourism here developed no worse, bison just as powerful. The nature of the middle European strip blooms with meadows, rustles with oak trees and murmurs with the purest rivers, reminding of native lands. Add to this unique cultural objects – and you get a world-class recreation area. Many […]

A tourist trip to Krakow begins with the Royal Castle (Zamek Królewski na Wawelu). Wawel Castle is as important to Poland as the Moscow Kremlin is to Russia. But the Kremlin remains the main symbol of statehood, and the Royal Castle on Wawel lost this status after the transfer of the capital from Krakow to […]

The Warsaw Zoo opened in 1929. Before that for almost 60 years there was a traveling exhibition of animals in the city. Gradually, it developed: the number of inhabitants and the territory grew, but the Second World War changed everything. When German troops came to Warsaw, many animals had to be killed, as they posed […]

Prague Park together with the Zoological Garden entered into the register of monuments on 3.07.1990 under the number 1434 Praski Park is the oldest public park in Warsaw. Initially called Aleksandrovsky or Alexandrian, after 1916 it renamed Praski. It built in the years 1865-1871. According to the design of Jan Dobrowolski. On the right bank […]

Szczytnicki Park is a large nature reserve of the Polish city of Wroclaw, a great place to spend time in nature. Its area is almost 100 hectares. The name given in honor of the village of Shchitniki, which has now become part of the city. Already in the XVIII century. the townspeople with pleasure came […]

Biebrza National Park opening of the park took place on September 9, 1993, and a couple of years later the world community recognized the colossal value of the Biebrza marshes. In spring and autumn, they become impassable, but in summer they are quite suitable for observing the numerous birds that nest here, attracted by the […]

Pole Mokotowskie located a step from the metro station Politechnika and about 900 meters from Łazienok Królewski. What was not there! For a long time, this place used as a springboard for training soldiers, and the park itself occupied about 200 hectares – almost 3 times more than now. In the middle of the 19th […]

Bieszczady National Park is the third largest national park in Poland with an area of 292.02 km², located in the south-east of the country. It includes the highlands of the Polish part of the Bieszczady mountain range with the highest peak Tarnica (1346 m). The park was founded in 1973, and in 1992 it and the […]