Top Things to do in Eastern Poland
The 10 Best Sights & Landmarks in Eastern Poland, Eastern Poland
An area that changed flags several times in the 20th century, Eastern Poland consists of Podlaskie, Lublin and Subcarpathian Voivodships (Provinces). The largest cities in each are Bialystok, Lublin and Zamosc respectively. The Masurian Lake District in the northeast includes Wigry National Park and Lake Hancza, the deepest lake in Poland. Bialowieza National Park, on the Belarusian border, protects one of the last remaining sections of a huge primeval forest that once covered Eastern Europe.
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1. Majdanek State Museum
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5.0 based on 721 reviews
Reviewed By GrahamK1949
The formar nazi concentration camp has been very well organised as a museum. Very large areas so be prepared to do lots of walking. It took us 4 hours to get around all of it. And that was with three exhibitions closed for renovations. We have been to Auschwitz, but even so this was well worth the visit.
2. Lublin Old Town
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4.5 based on 1,225 reviews
Reviewed By marcin717 - Gdynia, Poland
Lublin's magnificent Old Town, restored a few years ago, delights with its charm and history, one of my favorite cities in Poland, which I like to visit both in summer and in winter.
3. Branicki Palace
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4.5 based on 494 reviews
Reviewed By K2424BLkrzysztofk - London, United Kingdom
Wonderful place inside heart of BIAŁYSTOK. Beautiful garden and park just for break. You have to visit this marvellous place
4. Old Town
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4.5 based on 273 reviews
Reviewed By T5890MDeleonorar
Zamosc is very pretty, historic city with charming old town. We have been out of the season so a lot of places were closed but i think this is place worth going any time during the year because of people and lovely architecture
5. Tykocin Synagogue
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4.5 based on 139 reviews
Reviewed By davidrE7988AX - Baltimore, United States
My wife and I were in Warsaw and I had read about the restoration of this old synagogue. Not one of the largest in pre-war Poland, but of historical significance. Typical of the free-standing sunken fortrass synagogues of its era. We got a guide in Warsaw to take us. After WW2 synagogue fell into disrepair, and has recently bee3n resored to "like-new" condition. While we were there several Jewish groups came through, one from North Ameraica, one from South America. Tycochin pre-WW2 was 50% Jewish, 50% Catholic. The synagogue was at one end of the town, the church on the other, with the town marketplace in between. We got a thorough tour of the town and the local guides at the synagogue were helpful (being Jewish, we know what we were looking at and reading on the inscriptions). Guides facilitated our photography. Agree that what happened to the community was glossed over. Our Warsaw guide took us to the spot in the forest a few miles outside of town where the Nazi's murdered the community over a two day period. There are memorials there marking the mass graves. On our way we briefly stopped at the Jewish cemetery. Basically, the Nazi's tried to erase hundreds of years of Jewish history in this place. They wiped out the people, sadly. The synagogue and vestiges of the cemetery remain as testiment. If you are interested in Jewish history, and Jewish civilization / culture, worth a visit.
6. Kosciuszko Market Square
7. The Lublin Castle
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4.5 based on 414 reviews
Reviewed By yegorb306 - Minsk, Belarus
One of the main attraction in Lublin, and defenitely the most exciting one. Stone castle was built in early 14th century on the place of wooden castle by Casimir III the Great, king of Poland. Then it was demolished in 17th and 18th century and was rebuilt as neogothic in 19th. During the Austrian, Russian then German occupation and even through the post-war years it served as a prison. After 1957 it's been a museum.
8. Trinity Tower
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4.5 based on 158 reviews
Reviewed By VeraEremova - Brest, Belarus
If you want to have a nice experience and look at Lublin Old Town from above - you definitely have to visit Trinity Tower!
