=UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Poland=
Krakow and vicinity
* Old Town and Wawel Castle in Krakow - well-preserved medieval town city and marketplace. After the ancient Krakow was destroyed by the Tatars in 1241, Boleslaus IV located the new town in the current shape with the Main Market and the straight streets. Many fine buildings, museums, theatres and restaurants are situated there, with a spectacular Wawel castle hill.
* Wieliczka Salt Mine - the oldest still existing enterprise worldwide, founded more than 700 years ago. Once, it made the Polish kings very rich, as salt was the expensive white gold. 4.5 km of nearly 400 km of the mine can be visited. The tourist route shows the most beautiful halls and salt pieces of art made by the miners throughout the centuries.
* Auschwitz German Nazi Concentration Camp - while occupying Poland, the German Nazis established the concentration camp in 1940 for Polish prisoners. From 1942 to 1945 it became the centre of the Holocaust on the European Jews.
* Kalwaria Zebrzydowska - monastery in the Beskids from 1600 with baroque Stations of the Cross
* Medieval wooden churches of southern Ma?opolska - rare exemplars of medieval wooden architecture. One of the most beautiful is in D?bno at Lake Czorsztyn.
Old Town in Warsaw - originaly from the late Gothic and Renaissance period, destroyed during WW II by the Germans and rebuilt in the 1950s according to the 18th century drawings and paintings by Canaletto
Old Town in Toru? - brick gothic town hall and churches form a unique medival panorama at the east Vistula shore. Nicolaus Copernicus was born in one of the fine Gothic houses.
Old Town in Zamo?? - beautiful Renaissance town, built by Morando as the perfect Renaissance town for Hetman Jan Zamoyski for Polish, Jewish, Armenian, German, Ruthenian etc. settlers.
Bia?owie?a Forest - a primeval forest near Bialystok with very old trees and the last wild bison in Europe.
Castle of the Crusading Teutonic Order in Malbork - a beautiful, huge brick Gothic castle.
Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica - the largest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe, with very simple exterior but overwhelming Baroque interior.
Park Muzakowski in ??knica - Romantique park at the Nysa River.
People's Hall (Hala Ludowa) in Wroc?aw - huge multi-purpose building from the beginning of the 20th century, a pioneering work of modern engineering and architecture.