5 best — culture & art in Kashubia

The Necel Kashubian Ceramics Studio in Chmielno has been run by the famous Necel family for 10 generations. The family's rich and fascinating history even includes a 1923 visit by the President...

Piaśnica Wielka — a place of remembrance for around 12,000 Poles and Kashubians murdered during World War II, mostly educated people. The Germans also killed here over a thousand of their own countrymen who were...

THE PAPAL ALTAR. The papal altar is the name given to a sculpture-monument with an altar table, set in the centre of Sierakowice near St Martin's Church, at which Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass...

The Opening Sculptures — Brusy — here is the studio of Józef Chełmowski, a sculptor, painter and philosopher. His folk sculptures and paintings on canvas and glass have been admired by many tourists from Poland...

The Swarzewo Sanctuary — the local church holds a figure of Our Lady of Swarzewo (from the 15th century), to which not only the people of Kashubia make frequent pilgrimages. There is also a chapel with a well...