Poland UNESCO sites (with map)

Old cities, historic mines, churches, and monuments of both tolerance and cruelty: the variety of UNESCO sites in Poland is very wide. Click on the map or use the list below to get to the individual articles. At the bottom is Poland’s Tentative Sites list.

Auschwitz Birkenau: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
A Nazi extermination camp, now a place of remembrance of the atrocities committed by the Nazis in carrying out their so-called “Final Solution.”

Historic Centre of Kraków
An important market town for hundreds of years and an outstanding example of urban planning, with a range of historical architectural styles.

Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
A massive brick castle from an era of forced conversion to Christianity in eastern Europe.

Medieval Town of Toruń
An intact 13th-century Old Town and New Town – the former was a trading hub, the latter a craft center – plus a Teutonic castle ruin.

Historic Centre of Warsaw
An outstanding near-total reconstruction of a centuries-old historic city center.

Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park

Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region

Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska

Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines

Centennial Hall in Wrocław

Old City of Zamość

Gdynia Modernist City Center

Transnational sites

Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
Forests of European beech trees that survived the last Ice Age and then spread across Europe, now protected in 93 locations across 18 countries.

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski (with Germany)

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine

Białowieża Forest (with Belarus)

Poland’s sites on the UNESCO Tentative List

Cultural sites

  • Historic Saltworks Complex in Ciechocinek 
  • Bobrka oil field – the heritage of the beginnings of the oil industry in the world 
  • The early modern Srebrna Góra Fortress as a perfect example of mountain massifs transformation 
  • Historical coal-mining complex in Zabrze (eighteenth–twentieth centuries) 
  • European Paper Mills (from the era of hand-made paper)
  • The Augustów Canal (Kanal Augustowski) 
  • Gdansk – Town of Memory and Freedom

Natural site

  • The Dunajec River Gorge in the Pieniny Mountains