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Ten Things You Should Not Miss While In Poland
oland is a county that is Visit Warsaw and see for yourself
located in Central Europe. the Royal Castle, the Wilanow
This is a country rich in Castle, the Lazienki Park, and
history as well as beautiful other scenic sites that gives
places, and as such, this has color and grandeur to this Polish
become a favorite tourist city. The ruins of the Jewish
destination. Here are the places ghetto wall are standing up to
that you should visit while in this day, a reminder for the many
Poland. who perished in Nazi atrocities
and the few who managed to come
1.) Old Town back.
Words can only capture so much of 3.) Sopot
the beauty and timelessness that
defines Stare Miastro. Take a Sopot is the premiere vacation
walk or ride a bike or carriage spot in Poland that gives
for a tour of the city, and be travelers a scenic place and a
mesmerized by the simple grandeur place for a myriad of activities.
of the place. Pubs, bars, Sopot is also a home to both
restaurants, etc. are plenty in budding and respected artist in
the city, so you don’t have to various fields, giving radiance
worry when that tummy churns from to the already lively place.
hunger in this beautiful city. With so many things to do,
boredom is certainly one of
2.) Warsaw things you shouldn’t plan for in
this city.
World War II did something to
change the landscape of Warsaw, 4.) Slowinski National Park
but the beauty of this city
remains worthy of a stopover. Drop by the Baltic Coast and see
for yourself the various land reminder of the past that should
features that characterize be forever remembered. Travel
Slowinski National Park’s back in time of Nazi’s occupation
topography. Walk by the beach, of Auschwitz and relive the
enter the forest, step on wet tragedies that surround the
marshlands and sand dunes, and concentration camps. Let the
cross grassland and moors while edifice and the few things left
you’re in it. Be fascinated by both by the perpetrators and the
the wide variety of flora and victims speak of the history that
fauna that comes with it. unfolded in this side of the
Polish lands.
5.) Tatra Mountain
7.) Great Masurian Lake
Tatra Mountain range, home of
natural wonders and mountain Found in the northern part of the
adventures, lies in the border of country, Great Masurian Lake is
Poland and Slovakia. Glance at the remains of the Ice Age that
the Polish biodiversity while cover all of Poland. With some
admiring the landscape formed by 4000 lakes linked by intricate
four glaciations that took place river and water tributaries, it
in the Tatra mountain regions. covers up to 15% of all Masurian
Take a hike and climb the peaks Plateau. Travel the lake in its
of Tatra, and be astounded by the entirety with bike tours made
scenic view of Poland from its available in the area.
side.
8.) The Wawel
6.) Auschwitz
Visit the place where polish
More than sixty years after the kings rule for over 500 years.
Nazi Rule, Auschwitz stands as a Walk around time and see yourself
time-locked in the Renaissance Named after Kazimierz Wielki who
period with Wawels’s castle, founded the town in 1335, this
churches, courtyards, and other polish town offered shelter to
infrastructure. Learn, discover persecuted Jews before World War
and marvel at the sight of this II. The number of Jews living in
city. Kazimierz was a target for the
Nazi during WWII, reducing the
9.) Czartoryski Museum 70,000 Jews in pre-world war era
into 600 to this day. Take a
Da Vinci and Rembrandt peek into the preserved Jewish
aficionados who plan to visit ghettoes and discover the lives
Poland put Czartoryski Museum on these people have then.
top of their list. Despite
losing some artworks during Nazi
occupation, artworks like Da |
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