UNESCO World Heritage for Poland

UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 14 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Poland to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available).


1978 - Cracow's Historic Centre
1978 - Wieliczka Salt Mine
1979 - Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Bialowieza Forest
1979 - Auschwitz Birkenau
1980 - Historic Centre of Warsaw
1992 - Old City of Zamosc
1997 - Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
1997 - Medieval Town of Torun
1999 - Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
2001 - Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica
2003 - Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland
2004 - Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski
2006 - Centennial Hall in Wroclaw
2013 - Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine


Wieliczka Salt Mine

Cracow's Historic Centre

Auschwitz Birkenau