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Witamy w Polsce

Land

Polen

583 Orte · 1.262 Museen

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Die besten Museumsstädte

Orte in Polen

Greater Poland Voivodeship

122 Museen

Masovian Voivodeship

168 Museen

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

163 Museen

Silesian Voivodeship

140 Museen

Lower Silesian Voivodeship

102 Museen

Pomeranian Voivodeship

93 Museen

Podkarpackie Voivodeship

60 Museen

Lublin Voivodeship

62 Museen

Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

39 Museen

Łódź Voivodeship

64 Museen

West Pomeranian Voivodeship

45 Museen

Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

39 Museen

Podlaskie Voivodeship

35 Museen

Lubusz Voivodeship

26 Museen

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

71 Museen

Opole Voivodeship

24 Museen

★ Hat eine eigene Stadtgeschichte

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Welcome to Poland

A royal city on the Vistula, a capital rebuilt from ruins, Copernicus, Chopin and Marie Curie.

Poland is a large country between the Baltic Sea and the Tatra mountains, with a thousand years of history full of kings, uprisings and rebirths. It wrote Europe's first modern constitution, gave the world Copernicus, Chopin and Marie Curie, and began the peaceful end of communism in a Gdańsk shipyard. Visit the Wawel castle in Kraków, see Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, and learn the story of Polish Jews at POLIN in Warsaw. Plan your museum days on museumtickets.com, then eat pierogi and a warm pączek.

  • 966Mieszko I is baptised, the start of the Polish state
  • 1791the Constitution of 3 May, the first modern constitution in Europe
  • 1980the Solidarity movement is born in the Gdańsk shipyard
  • 2004Poland joins the European Union

Poland through the ages

Kings, partitions, war and freedom.

  1. 966

    The baptism of Poland

    Duke Mieszko I accepts Christianity; Poland enters European history.

    Zu sehen in: Museum of the History of Poland
  2. 1543

    Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus, born in Toruń, publishes that the Earth goes around the Sun.

    Zu sehen in: Nicolaus Copernicus House
  3. 1795

    Partitions

    Russia, Prussia and Austria divide Poland; it disappears from the map for 123 years.

    Zu sehen in: Museum of the History of Poland
  4. 1918

    Independence

    Poland is reborn as a free state on 11 November 1918.

    Zu sehen in: Józef Piłsudski Museum
  5. 1944

    The Warsaw Uprising

    Warsaw rises against the German occupiers and fights for 63 days; the city is then destroyed.

    Zu sehen in: Warsaw Rising Museum
  6. 1980

    Solidarity

    Strikes in Gdańsk create Solidarity, the first free trade union in the Soviet bloc.

    Zu sehen in: European Solidarity Centre

Women who shaped Poland

A scientist, a rescuer of children and a crane operator who started a strike.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Born in Warsaw in 1867; the first person to win two Nobel prizes, for physics and chemistry.

Zu sehen in: Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum
Irena Sendler

A social worker who smuggled about 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and hid their names in jars.

Zu sehen in: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Anna Walentynowicz

A crane operator whose dismissal in 1980 sparked the strike that created Solidarity.

Zu sehen in: European Solidarity Centre

Artists to look for in Poland

From a giant carved altar to the colours of Young Poland.

Veit Stoss

Sculptor of the great carved altarpiece of St Mary's Basilica in Kraków, finished in 1489.

Jan Matejko

Painter of huge scenes of Polish history, such as the Battle of Grunwald.

Stanisław Wyspiański

Painter, playwright and designer of glowing stained-glass windows in Kraków.

Olga Boznańska

Portrait painter of soft, misty colours who worked in Paris.

Fryderyk Chopin

The composer; his heart rests in a church in Warsaw and a museum is dedicated to him.

Taste Poland

Dumplings, sour soup and smoked mountain cheese.

Pierogi

Dumplings filled with potato and cheese, cabbage and mushroom, meat or summer fruit.

Żurek

A sour soup of fermented rye with sausage and egg, sometimes served in a bread bowl.

Bigos

Hunter's stew of sauerkraut, cabbage and meats, better each day it is reheated.

Oscypek

Smoked sheep's cheese from the Tatra mountains, pressed in carved wooden moulds.

Pączki

Round doughnuts with rose jam, eaten in huge numbers on Fat Thursday.

Traditions and festivals through the year

Doughnuts, water fights, candles on graves and an empty plate.

Fat Thursday – before Lent

Everyone eats pączki; bakeries have queues from early morning.

Śmigus-dyngus – Easter Monday

A day of water fights in the streets, after baskets of food are blessed on Holy Saturday.

Wianki – midsummer

Girls float wreaths of flowers on the rivers on the shortest night.

All Saints' Day – 1 November

Families light candles on graves; cemeteries glow at night.

Wigilia – Christmas Eve

Dinner begins at the first star, with twelve dishes and an empty place for an unexpected guest.

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The empty plate

Every Christmas Eve, Polish families set one place too many.

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At Wigilia, the Christmas Eve supper, families set an extra plate at the table for a lost traveller or a stranger who might knock at the door. Before eating, everyone shares the opłatek, a thin wafer, and wishes each other well. Hay is often put under the tablecloth, to remember the stable in Bethlehem.

Tipps für Kunstliebhaber

Trains

Fast trains link Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Wrocław and Poznań.

Free days

Many museums have one free day a week; it can be busy.

Memorial sites

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, book a guided visit and plan a full, quiet day.

Closed days

Many museums close on Mondays.

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Anreise

Anreise nach Polen

Vom Flughafen mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln ins Stadtzentrum, dann mit Zügen und Nahverkehr zu den Museen.

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Warsaw ChopinWarsaw · Warszawa
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