Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Szczecin, Poland
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5.9 km
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Experience Szczecin in Poland in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in SzczecinIndividual Sights in SzczecinSight 1: Kościół pw. Świętego Wojciecha
St. Adalbert's Church in Szczecin – a neo-Gothic hall church built in the years 1906–1909 according to the design of architect Jürgen Kröger. It currently serves as the Roman Catholic garrison church of the Szczecin-Kamień diocese. It is built of brick, with a massive, asymmetrically set tower 65.5 m high in the façade. The style of the building is eclectic – mostly neo-Gothic, but there are also neo-Romanesque motifs, especially in the decoration. The building is 35 m long, 23 m wide, and 17 m high.
Sight 2: Kornel Ujejski
Kornel Ujejski Monument – located in Szczecin on the square between the Port Gate and Zwycięstwa Square.
Sight 3: Brama Portowa
The Port Gate, hist. German: Berliner Tor – one of the city gates of Szczecin, built in the Baroque style in the years 1725–1727 according to the design of the Dutch fortification designer Gerhard Cornelius van Wallrawe.
Sight 4: Kościół pw. Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Szczecin – a modernist church with a reinforced concrete structure, with elements of neo-baroque and neo-romanesque. It is located at Zwycięstwa Square in Szczecin.
Wikipedia: Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa w Szczecinie (PL)
Sight 5: Pomnik Jana Czekanowskiego
The Jan Czekanowski Monument in Szczecin is a contemporary monument made by Yossouf Toure for Szczecin. It commemorates Jan Czekanowski – a Polish anthropologist and ethnographer, distinguished in African research, who in the last period of his life stayed in Szczecin, where he died. The monument was designed in the form of a monument-bench, in the form of a travel trunk with the figure of a traveler sitting on it.
Sight 6: Kościół pw. Świętego Jana Chrzciciela
The Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Szczecin – a neo-Gothic hall church on a Latin cross plan in the center of Szczecin, at the intersection of Bogurodzicy and Kaszubska Streets. The first Catholic church after the introduction of Lutheranism in 1534.
Sight 7: Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie
The State Archives in Szczecin was created on August 1, 1945. The Archives have two branches in Stargard and Międzyzdroje, a display in Strzmiele and a magazine in Dobra. The range of action covers the area of the former Szczecin Province.
Sight 8: Pomnik Bartolomeo Colleoniego
The Monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni in Szczecin – an equestrian statue of the famous condottiero, a historic copy of the Renaissance monument of Bartolomeo Colleoni by Andrea del Verrocchio, located in Szczecin.
Sight 9: Pałac pod Głowami
The Palace under the Heads in Szczecin at 2 Żołnierza Polskiego Square – a classicist building from the end of the 18th century, consisting of 2 buildings connected with each other in 1889.
Sight 10: Pałac Sejmu Stanów Pomorskich
The Szczecin National Museum is a national museum in Szczecin, Poland, established on 1 August 1945. The museum features ancient and modern art, archaeological, historical, numismatic, nautical and ethnographic collections and is divided into six branches, five located in Szczecin and one in Gryfice.
Sight 11: Zespół Państwowych Szkół Muzycznych im. Feliksa Nowowiejskiego
The Classicist Palace – located in the corner of Orła Biały Square in Szczecin, at the intersection of Staromłyńska and Łaziebna Streets.
Sight 12: Pałac pod Globusem
The "Pod Globusem" Palace is a palace in Szczecin, located at Orła Biały Square.
Sight 13: Pałac Joński
The Ionian Palace – a palace in Szczecin located at 3 Orła Biały Square, in the classicist style. The name comes from the characteristic pilasters in the Ionic order.
Sight 14: Fontanna Orła Białego
The White Eagle Fountain in Szczecin – located on the White Eagle Square. The design of the oldest surviving Baroque fountain was made by the Berlin architect Johann Friedrich Grael. It was built in the years 1729–1732 by the sculptor Johann Konrad Koch and the stonemason Angerer.
Sight 15: Posąg Flory
The Statue of Flora in Szczecin is a baroque monument to Flora, a goddess of flowers and spring, located at White Eagle Square in Szczecin. The statue was made of sandstone around 1730 by German sculptor Johann Georg Glume to a design by Johann Konrad Koch. The sculpture group consists of Flora holding a basket of flowers, along with a putto on either side: one climbing on a horn of plenty; one sitting by another basket of flowers. It was destroyed during the Second World War and restored in 1953.
Sight 16: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin
Pomeranian Medical University (PMU) was established in 1948 in Szczecin, Poland. It is referred to as Pomorski Uniwersytet Medyczny in Polish.
Wikipedia: Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin (EN), Website
Sight 17: Archikatedra pw. Świętego Jakuba Apostoła
The St. James the Apostle Archcathedral Basilica is a Gothic cathedral located in Szczecin, Poland and seat of the Archdiocese of Szczecin-Kamień. Built in the 12th-14th centuries, it is the second tallest church in Poland, the largest church in the region of Western Pomerania, and one of the most distinctive landmarks of the Szczecin Old Town.
Sight 18: Old City Town Hall
The Old Town Hall in Szczecin is the present day town hall in the old town district. It was built for the municipal government in the 15th century. Today it is used as a history museum.
Sight 19: kamienica Loitzów
The Loitz House – one of the most famous and valuable monuments of Szczecin from the late Gothic era, one of the few examples of old bourgeois architecture in the city.
Sight 20: Stajnia książęca
Prince's Stable – a historic building from around 1600. Originally, the first floor housed the Obrok warehouse. The lower part served as a stable and riding school. The building is located at 3 Rycerska Street, right next to the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin.
Sight 21: Zbór Kościoła Adwentystów Dnia Siódmego
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Szczecin – the Adventist church in Szczecin belongs to the West Pomeranian district of the Western Diocese of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Poland.
Wikipedia: Zbór Kościoła Adwentystów Dnia Siódmego w Szczecinie (PL), Website
Sight 22: Pomnik Bogusława X i Anny Jagiellonki
The monument of Prince Bogusław X and his wife Princess Anna Jagiellon is located at Korsarzy Street in Szczecin, in the north-west corner of the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle, next to the Bell Tower.
Wikipedia: Pomnik księcia Bogusława X i jego żony królewny Anny Jagiellonki w Szczecinie (PL)
Sight 23: Royal Gate
The Royal Gate – one of the city gates of Szczecin, located on the Prussian Homage Square. It was built in the years 1725–1728 on the occasion of the occupation of the city by Prussia according to the design of the Dutch fortification designer Gerhard Cornelius van Wallrawe.
Sight 24: Szczecin Philharmonic
Szczecin Philharmonic, officially Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic, founded in 1948, is a philharmonic of the city of Szczecin, Poland. In 2015, the new building of the philharmonic was awarded the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
Sight 25: Muzeum Centrum Dialogu Przełomy
The Dialogue Centre "Upheavals" – an exhibition pavilion of the National Museum in Szczecin, intended for exhibitions and education about the latest history of Szczecin and Western Pomerania. The designer is the architectural firm of KWK Promes of Robert Konieczny. It is an underground building, sunk into the Solidarity Square, where the Monument to the Victims of December 1970 of Czesław Dźwigaj is located. Solidarity Square is located in the vicinity of the former Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, at the site of demonstrations and street fights in December 1970, during which 16 people were killed.
Sight 26: Kościół świętego Piotra i świętego Pawła
The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Szczecin – a small Gothic brick aisleless church in Szczecin. This church is located on the European Route of Brick Gothic. Currently, it is a parish church of the Polish Catholic Church.
Sight 27: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie
The Szczecin National Museum is a national museum in Szczecin, Poland, established on 1 August 1945. The museum features ancient and modern art, archaeological, historical, numismatic, nautical and ethnographic collections and is divided into six branches, five located in Szczecin and one in Gryfice.
Sight 28: Herkules walczący z centaurem
Hercules Fighting a Centaur or Lapita's Fight with a Centaur is a sculpture by Ludwig Manzel, located on the terrace in front of the Main Building of the National Museum on Wały Chrobrego in Szczecin.
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