Hidden places in Poland

A hilltop old town above the Vistula with underground cellars.

A Renaissance 'ideal town' with a pastel arcaded square.

A Renaissance river town loved by artists, above the Vistula.

The world's largest brick castle, built by the Teutonic Knights.

An underground world of chambers, lakes and chapels carved from salt.

Wooden villas at the foot of the Tatra Mountains.

Wild grassy ridges and forests in Poland's far south-east corner.

A thin strip of dunes and pine forest between two seas.

Inland dunes, marshes and forest right next to Warsaw.

Flat-topped mountains with mazes of sandstone rocks.

Baltic cliffs, beech forest and a bison reserve.

One of Europe's last primeval forests, home to wild bison.

A mountain village below Śnieżka, the highest peak of the Karkonosze.

A land of more than a thousand lakes linked by canals.

Limestone gorges, caves and castle ruins near Kraków.

Limestone cliffs along a river gorge on the Slovak border.

Moving sand dunes between a lake and the Baltic Sea.

Tall Hanseatic merchant houses along the Motława waterfront.

A charming old town and castle in eastern Poland.

A colourful market square with mechanical goats on the town hall.

A port city with a castle and wide terraces above the river Oder.

A Gothic brick old town, birthplace of Copernicus.

A rebuilt old town next to a buzzing modern capital.

Colourful squares, river islands and hundreds of little bronze dwarfs.

Former textile mills turned into food halls and street art.

A vast market square, Wawel Castle and the lively Kazimierz quarter.