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Poland,efn|Polish: Polska Polish: /'polska/}} officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its terri…

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Bieszczady Mountains
Bieszczady Mountains
Zawój
Bieszczady Mountains Polish: /bJe'ady/ (Polish: Bieszczady; Slovak: Beščady; Ukrainian: Бещади; Hungarian: Besszádok) is a mountain range that runs from the extreme south-east of Poland and north-east of Slovakia through to western Ukraine. It forms the western part of the Eastern Beskids (Polish: Beskidy Wschodnie; Ukrainian: Східні Бескиди), and is more generally part of the Outer Eastern Carpathians. The mountain range is situated between the Łupków Pass (640 m) and the Vyshkovskyi Pass (933 …
wikipedia/Bieszczady_Mountains
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Wawel
Wawel
Zwierzyniec
The Wawel Royal Castle (Polish: [ˈvavɛl]; Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland. A fortified residency on the Vistula River in Kraków, it was established on the orders of King Casimir III the Great and enlarged over the centuries into a number of structures around an Italian-styled courtyard. It represents nearly all European architectural styles of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. …
wikipedia/Wawel_Castle
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2009-03-13 03-16 Krakau 104 Wawel
2009-03-13 03-16 Krakau …
Kazimierz (Polish: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ]; Latin: Casimiria; Yiddish: קוזמיר) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located south of the Old Town of Kraków, separated from it by a branch of the Vistula river. For many centuries, Kazimierz was a place where ethnic Polish and Jewish cultures coexisted and intermingled. The northeastern…
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Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta
Łęg
Nowa Huta (, literally "The New Steel Mill") is the easternmost district of Kraków, Poland. With more than 200,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most populous areas of the city. Until 1990, the neighbouring districts were considered expansions of the original Nowa Huta district, and were linked by the same tramway system. They are now separate districts of Kraków. Nowa Huta is one of the largest planned socialist realist settlements or districts ever built (another being Magnitogorsk in Russia) …
wikipedia/Nowa_Huta
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Krkonoše
Krkonoše
Karpacz
The Giant Mountains, Krkonoše, or Karkonosze (Czech: Czech: [ˈkr̩konoʃɛ], Polish: Polish: /karko'noe/, German: Riesengebirge), are a mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland, part of the Sudetes mountain system (part of the Bohemian Massif). The Czech-Polish border, which divides the historic regions of Bohemia and Silesia, runs along the main ridge. The highest peak, Sněžka (Polish: Śnieżka, German: Schneekoppe), is the Czech Republic's highest poin…
wikipedia/Giant_Mountains
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Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula (one of the Vistula delta estuaries), in the Gdańsk harbour channel. From 1926 to 1939, it was the location of a Polish Military Transit Depot (WST), sanctioned within the territory of the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk). It is famous for the Battle of Westerplatte, which was the first clash between Polish and German forces during the invasion of Poland and thus the beginning and the first b…
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Küstrin
Küstrin
The Warta Mouth National Park (Polish: Park Narodowy Ujście Warty) is the youngest of Poland's 23 national parks. It was created on 19 June 2001 in the region of the lowest stretch of the Warta river, up to its confluence with the Odra (Oder), which marks the Polish–German border. The park covers an area of within Lubusz Voivodeship. The park was created on the area of the former Słońsk Nature Reserve, which had existed since 1977, and parts of the Ujście Warty Landscape Park. The ground here i…
wikipedia/Warta_Mouth_National_Park
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Krkonoše
Krkonoše
Sněžka or Śnieżka (in Czech and Polish respectively; German: Schneekoppe, Slovak: Snežka) is a mountain on the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, the most prominent point of the Silesian Ridge in the Giant Mountains. At , its summit is the highest point in the Czech Republic, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in the Giant Mountains and in the entire Sudetes. History Sněžka was one of the first European mountains visited by many tourists. This was mainly due to the relatively minor techni…
wikipedia/Sněžka
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Karkonosze Mountains
Karkonosze Mountains
Śnieżne Kotły (, Czech: Sněžné jámy, German: Schneegruben, literally Snowy Pits, Snowy Cirque, Snowy Cwm) are two glacial cirques situated in Poland in the Sudetes in the Karkonosze National Park. They are a unique example of the alpine landscape in the area and have been a nature reserve since 1933. Description The walls of both cirques are about high and contain small tarn lakes. They were formed during the last phase of the glacial period and consist predominantly of granite. However, in two…
wikipedia/Śnieżne_Kotły
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Wolf's Lair
Wolf's Lair
Gierłoż
The Wolf's Lair (German: Wolfsschanze; Polish: Wilczy Szaniec) served as Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front military headquarters in World War II. The headquarters was located in the Masurian woods, near the village of Görlitz in Ostpreußen (now Gierłoż), about 8 kilometres (5 miles) east of the small East Prussian town of Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn), in present-day Poland. The central complex and the Führers bunker were surrounded by three security zones guarded by two Schutzstaffel (SS) units: th…
wikipedia/Wolf's_Lair
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Lublin - Hotels Lublin, view from the room
Lublin - Hotels Lublin, …
Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows, and some 227 structures in all, placing it among the largest of Nazi concentration camps. Although initially intended for forced labor rather than extermination, the camp was used to murder people on an industrial scale during Operation Reinhard, the German pl…
wikipedia/Majdanek_concentration_camp
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Łazienki Park
Łazienki Park
Warsaw
Łazienki Park or Royal Baths Park (Polish: Park Łazienkowski, Łazienki Królewskie) 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, which is part of 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. Originally designed in the 17th century as a baths park for nobl…
wikipedia/Łazienki_Park
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Kluki, Pomerania Region, Poland.
Kluki, Pomerania Region,…
Słowiński National Park (Polish: Słowiński Park Narodowy) 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 of coastline. History The original idea of creating a preserve here came out in 1946, at a conference in Łeba with scientists from Poznań and Gdańsk. The park, however, was created 21 years later, in 1967, on an area of . Today it is slightly larger, covering , of which …
wikipedia/Słowiński_National_Park
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PGE Arena Gdańsk
PGE Arena Gdańsk
Zaspa
Stadion Gdańsk (English: Gdańsk Stadium), known for sponsorship reasons as the Polsat Plus Arena Gdańsk since May 2021, is a football stadium in Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Lechia Gdańsk, which competes in the Ekstraklasa. The stadium is located at the Pokoleń Lechii Gdańsk 1 Street (English: Generations of Lechia Gdańsk) in the northern part of the city (Letnica district). The total capacity is 41,620 spectators, all …
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Royal Castle, Warsaw
Royal Castle, Warsaw
Warsaw
The Royal Castle in Warsaw (Polish: Zamek Królewski w Warszawie) is a state museum and a national historical monument, which formerly served as the official royal residence of several Polish monarchs. The personal offices of the king and the administrative offices of the royal court were located in the Castle from the 16th century until the final partition of Poland in 1795. Situated in the Castle Square, at the entrance to the Warsaw Old Town, the Royal Castle holds a significant collection of …
wikipedia/Royal_Castle,_Warsaw
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Jasna Góra Monastery
Jasna Góra Monastery
Częstochówka
The Jasna Góra Monastery (Polish: Jasna Góra Polish: [ˈjas.na ˈɡu.ra], Luminous Mount, ) in Częstochowa, Poland, is a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary and one of the country's places of pilgrimage. The image of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa, to which miraculous powers are attributed, is one of Jasna Góra's most precious treasures. The site is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii) and is tracked by the National Herita…
wikipedia/Jasna_Góra_Monastery
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Poznań
Poznań
Lake Malta, known also as the Maltański Reservoir, is an artificial lake in Poznań, Poland. It was formed in 1952 as a result of the damming of the Cybina River. It is about 2.2 km long (with the circuit of 5,6 km), which makes the lake the biggest man-made lake of the city. The water is 3.1 m deep on average with a maximum about 5 m. There are a number of recreational attractions along the edge of the lake including: • an artificial ski slope, • an artificial ice rink, • a zoological garden,…
wikipedia/Lake_Malta
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Mount Ślęża
Mount Ślęża
Radunia
The Ślęża (Polish: [ˈɕlɛ̃ʐa]; German: Zobten or Zobtenberg, later also Siling) is a high mountain in the Sudeten Foreland in Poland. The mountain is built mostly of granite and is covered with forests. The top of the mountain has a PTTK tourist mountain hut, a television and radio mast, Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, some poorly-visible ruins of the castle and an observation tower. The area of the peak is protected as the Góra Ślęża nature reserve. The wide area around the…
wikipedia/Ślęża
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Polen 2015
Polen 2015
Śniardwy () is a lake in the Masurian Lake District of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland. At , Śniardwy is the largest lake in Poland. It was also the largest lake in Prussia, when Warmia-Masuria was under German rule. It is long and wide. The maximum depth is 23 metres (75 feet). There are eight islands on the Śniardwy lake. Geography Śniardwy was formed by retreating ice sheet and draining floodwaters occurring as the result of ice calving ahead of the receding glacier. Among the eigh…
wikipedia/Śniardwy
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Palace of Culture and Science
Palace of Culture and Sc…
Warsaw
The Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki; abbreviated PKiN) is a notable high-rise building in central Warsaw, Poland. With a total height of it is the second tallest building in both Warsaw and Poland after Varso, the 6th-tallest building in the European Union (including spire) and one of the tallest on the European continent. Constructed in 1955, it houses various public and cultural institutions such as cinemas, theatres, libraries, sports clubs, university faculties,…
wikipedia/Palace_of_Culture_and_Science
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Świętokrzyskie Mountains
Świętokrzyskie Mountains
Święta Katarzyna
The Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Polish: Góry Świętokrzyskie, Polish: [ˈɡurɨ ɕfjɛntɔˈkʂɨskʲɛ]), often anglicized to Holy Cross Mountains, are a mountain range in central Poland, near the city of Kielce. The Świętokrzyskie Mountains are some of the oldest mountains in Europe, and the highest between the Sudetes and the Ural Mountains. The mountain range comprises several lesser ranges, the highest of which is Łysogóry (literally "Bald Mountains"). The two highest peaks are Łysica, 614 m (2014.44 ft…
wikipedia/Świętokrzyskie_Mountains
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Poland - Krakow - Auschwitz - Wroclaw
Poland - Krakow - Auschw…
Sky Tower is a skyscraper in Wrocław, Poland. Construction began in December 2007 with the demolition of the 24-story Poltegor structure, until then the tallest building in the city. Sky Tower was the tallest building in Poland in the category of height to roof and category of highest floor until Varso Tower overtook it in mid-2020. A publicly accessible viewpoint is located on the 49th floor. First design The project is located on a property with an area of 27,362 square meters, located to the…
wikipedia/Sky_Tower_(Wrocław)
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Oder
Oder
Trzebież
The Oder (English: /ˈd/ , German: [ˈoːdɐ]; Czech, Lower Sorbian and Polish: [ˈɔdra]; ) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river in total length and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and Warta. The Oder rises in the Czech Republic and flows through western Poland, later forming of the border between Poland and Germany as part of the Oder–Neisse line. The river ultimately flows into the Szczecin Lagoon north of Szczecin and then into three branches (th…
wikipedia/Oder
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Rakowicki Cemetery
Rakowicki Cemetery
Krowodrza
Rakowicki Cemetery (English: ; Polish: Cmentarz Rakowicki) is a historic necropolis and a cultural heritage monument located on 26 Rakowicka Street in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It lies within the Administrative District No. 1 ''Stare Miasto'' meaning "Old Town" – distinct from the Kraków Old Town situated further south. Founded at the beginning of the 19th century when the region was part of Austrian Galicia, the cemetery was expanded several times, and at present covers an area of about 42 …
wikipedia/Rakowicki_Cemetery
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