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  Our Lady's Assumption and St. Adalbert's Arch-Cathedral Basilica

  Gniezno

  Our Lady’s Assumption and St. Adalbert’s Arch-Cathedral Basilica in Gniezno is located on the historical Lech’s Hill at Jelonek Lake. It is a monument of architecture, with great significance for Polish culture.

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  Auschwitz-Birkenau - former Nazi concentration camp

  Brzezinka

  Former concentration and extermination camp, the largest in the Third Reich.
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  The Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz

  Łódź

  The Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz is the oldest and the biggest museum in this part of Europe.

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  Medieval Town of Toruń

  Toruń

  In the Old and New Town, the many imposing public and private buildings from the 14th and 15th centuries (among them the house of Copernicus) are striking evidence of Torun's importance.
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  Wawel Cathedral

  Kraków

  The sound of “Sigismund Bell” carries far and wide!
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  St Mary’s Church and altar

  Kraków

  The tall outline of St Mary’s Church and the asymmetry of its two towers crowned with spires draws attention to itself.
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  Church in Blizne

  Blizne

  The most valuable monument in Blizne is wooden Church of All Saints from the middle of 15th century. Church was built in the Late Gothic style, of stromal construction, on a stone foundation. In 17th century was surrounded by defensive ramparts.
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  Parish church in Haczow

  Haczów

  The former parish Catholic church dedicated to the Ascension of the Holy Virgin Mary and Archangel Nicolas dates back to the 1st half of the 15th c.
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  KRAKÓW – Rynek Główny (Main Town Square)

  Kraków

  The largest medieval town square in Europe
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  The wooden churches of southern Little Poland

  Lipnica Murowana

  The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages, these churches were sponsored by noble families and became status symbols. They offered an alternative to the stone structures erected in urban centres.
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  Oświęcim (Auschwitz) – museum

  Oświęcim

  Auschwitz Concentration Camp stands as a monument and a warning to mankind.

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  Old City of Zamość

  Zamość

  Zamosc was founded in the 16th century by the chancellor Jan Zamoysky on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea. Modelled on Italian theories of the 'ideal city' and built by the architect Bernando Morando, a native of Padua, Zamosc is a perfect example of a late-16th-century Renaissance town. It has retained its original layout and fortifications and a large number of buildings that combine Italian and central European architectural traditions.
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  Wieliczka - salt mine and museum

  Wieliczka

  The Treasurer wanders through the underground corridors and halls guarding the hidden treasure and you too can set out following his trail into the fairy tale land of the oldest salt mine in the world.
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  The Royal Castle on Wawel Hill

  Kraków

  On the top of Wawel hill over the course of the Vistula River with its high towers and roofs stands the edifice of the royal residence.
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  Arboretum in Bolestraszyce

  Bolestraszyce

  Arboretum contains a park and a mansion - in which in the first half of the 19th century an excellent painter Piotr Michaowski lived and painted. Aged trees, being a remainder of the old castle gardens, are a very picturesque feature among new plantings, consisting of the species of foreign origin, as well as of the native specimens - trees, shrubs, and other rare, endangered, disappearing and protected plant species.
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  Greek-Catholic Cathedral in Przemyśl

  Przemyśl

  Greek-Catholic Cathedral, located in the former Baroque Church of the Holy Heart of Jesus, which was erected for Jesuits in the 17th century.

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  Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Przemyśl

  Przemyśl

  Roman-Catholic Cathedral, erected in Gothic style in the 15th and 16th centuries and then rebuilt in the 18th century in a Baroque style.

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  The State Archives

  Suwałki

  The State Archives is the building which was raised at the end of the 19th century for the purpose of the court. At present the building is the headquarters of the State Archives in Suwałki.

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  Arianka Tomb

  Krynica

  Commemorative tomb built in the form of pyramid - Arianka.

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  Museum Arsenal

  Zamość

  The Zamość fortress was never conquered, neither by the Cossack Tartar army during Chmielnicki's rising, nor by the Swedes during their invasion.