The pearls of the region are firts co-capitals (plural!!) of Poland from Xth-XIth cent with many monument referring to the beginnings of the Polish State�:
Two most important centres of the first Poland�: Gniezno and Poznań
other, which used to be very important in early middle ages, nowadays - small villages�: Giecz (40 kms eastwards from Poznań) and Ostrów Lednicki – on the way from Poznań to Gniezno.
Other bigger cities worth spending and least few hours in each are�:
Smaller towns with interesting monuments, events and traditions�:
Kórnik (18 kms south-east from Poznan) wit a neogothic castle with wonderful interions and furniture and a dendrological park and - last bu not least - with an extremely precious Library with manuscripts dating back to XIIIth centuy
Rogalin (16 kms to the south from the city) with a baroque-klasicistic palace and its famous paiting collection of Raczynski family, horse cabs and very famous oaks (in total�: more than 500), including three well-knows trees�: Lech, Czech i Rus.
Puszczykowo (15 kms to the south very easily accessible by train) - a very interesting travel museum of a polish traveller Arkady Fedler, the seat of the management of Greater-Poland National Park with a nature museum.
Swarzędz (just out of the city limits to the east, toward Warsaw) - a small city famous for the unique in Poland (and one of few in Europe) bee-keeping open-air museums.
Nowy Tomysl with the biggest basket of the world and the Basketry Museum
Szamotuly - a town 35kms NW of Poznan with an incredible Icon Museum, Halszka Tower and collegiate church
In Greater Poland it's worth sometimes to drive out of main roads to see e.g.�:
Szreniawa (15 kms to the south-west) - famous for the Agriculture Museum and the Bierbaums-family viewing tower
Kazimierz Biskupi near by Konin with an old romanesque church
Kłodawa with the biggest working salt mine in Poland
Tarnowo Pałuckie with the oldest wooden church in the country
Wełna with a unique water mills museum situated on a popular canoe trail along Wełna river
Another thing interesting for history-lovers can be the Greater-Poland part of the Cistersian Route. In the region the main places on the route are�: Wągrowiec, Lekno (where the first cistersian monastery on polish territorries was erected), Owinska - all three north-east of Poznań and Przemet, Obra and Wielen in the south-west part of the region, nearby Wolsztyn. Another monastery was placed in Lad - 70 kms east of Poznan, just next to motorway A2.
Another thing interesting for history-lovers can be the Greater-Poland part of the Cistersian Route. In the region the main places on the route are�: Wagrowiec, Lekno (where the first cistersian monastery on polish territorries was erected), Owinska - all three north-east of Poznan and Przemet, Obra and Wielen in the south-west part of the region, nearby Wolsztyn. Another monastery was placed in Lad - 70 kms east of Poznan, just next to motorway A2. More info about Cistersian in Greater Poland (in English)�:
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