19 best — culture & art in Pomerania

The Amber Walk of Fame is an avenue of commemorative handprints of famous people from film, theatre, music and literature — people who became legends in their lifetimes through their talent and hard work...

St John's Church — a monumental, mysterious temple that, after wartime destruction, became an extraordinary stage for performances, concerts and Masses (Sundays 10 a.m. in German, 12 p.m. ...

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 reconstruction of a trading post and the Amber Road from the Roman period is an event unprecedented in Poland, revealing the historical ties of the area of today's Pruszcz Gdański...

Gliniana Zagroda — ceramics workshops by the sea, where every day and every object shaped in our hands turns out a little different. The ceramic works at Gliniana Zagroda have souls of their own...

Kunszt Wodny takes its name, and some architectural elements, from the former pumping station that once worked here. For several centuries (17th–19th) this hydro-engineering facility supplied water...

Grzegorz Ciechowski — singer and leader of the band Republika — was born on 29 August 1957 in Tczew. He died suddenly in 2001. Tczew decided to honour the outstanding musician's memory in an unusual way. By...

Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street — 'Monciak' — was reportedly once a path linking the village to a fishing settlement on the seashore. Today it is just over 600 m long and is the most famous street in northern Poland...

Under the banner 'In Solidarity with Ukraine', anti-war murals began appearing in Gdańsk by Tuse — Piotr Jaworski, one of Poland's best-known street artists. These works can be admired...

The narrowest house in Sopot — at Kościuszki 3a — is just 250 cm wide. A room of that width is no surprise, but a house, and a three-storey one at that, is a challenge for both architect and...

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 Forest Opera — alongside the Sopot pier, the city's second most iconic landmark. Opened in 1909, initially as the Forest Theatre, it is regarded by experts as one of the most beautiful stages in Europe...

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...

Oliwa Park — probably laid out as early as the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries together with the Cistercian abbey — is the oldest and most beautiful park in northern Poland. Across 30 hectares you can admire...

The Piaseczno Sanctuary — right by the Gdańsk–Łódź national road, about 5 km past Gniew. A place known for the oldest Marian apparition in Pomerania — at the turn of 1378/79. There is also...

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...

Mariacka Street is the most beautiful street in Gdańsk. Full of charm in summer and winter. On a sunny day — when displays of colourful wares mingle with light reflected in strings of amber. And in the evening, when...

The Villa Lane — Obrońców Westerplatte, to be precise. You reach this most villa-lined part from the 'Monciak' (or from the Sierakowski Manor) across a picturesque little bridge. Here it is easy to...