Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Szczecin, Poland
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6.1 km
76 m
Explore Szczecin in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in SzczecinIndividual Sights in SzczecinSight 1: Kornel Ujejski
Kornel Ujejski Monument – located in Szczecin on the square between the Port Gate and Victory Square.
Sight 2: Kościół pw. Świętego Wojciecha
St. Adalbert's Church in Szczecin – a neo-Gothic hall church built in 1906–1909 according to the design of architect Jürgen Kröger. It currently serves as the Roman Catholic garrison church of the Szczecin-Kamien diocese. It is built of brick and has a massive, asymmetrically set tower with a height of 65.5 m 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 length of the building is 35 m, width – 23 m, hall height – 17 m.
Sight 3: 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 4: Pomnik Jana Czekanowskiego
Monument to Jan Czekanowski in Szczecin - a modern monument made by Yossooufa Toure for Szczecin. He commemorates Jan Czekanowski - a Polish anthropologist and ethnographer, a distinguished Africa who has been in Szczecin recently, where he died. The monument was designed in the type of monument-scale, in the form of a travel trunk with a traveler sitting on him.
Sight 5: Pomnik Marynarza
Monument of Sailor is a monument in Szczecin, Poland at the Grunwald Square at the John Paul II Avenue. It was designed by Ryszard Chachulski and completed on 19 June 1980.
Sight 6: Pomnik Króla Maciusia I
Monument to King Maciusia and in Szczecin - a monument in honor of Janusz Korczak, located in front of the building of Primary School No. 54 at ul. Rayski in Szczecin.
Sight 7: Café 22
Pazim is the second tallest building in Szczecin, Poland, after the St. James Cathedral, if including Pazim's spire. It contains twenty-three floors and is 92 meters tall. The building was designed by Milijenko Dumencić. It is the headquarters of Polsteam, with its name originating from company's alternative name abbreviation, PŻM.
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 found 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 joined together 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
Classicist Palace – located in the corner of the White Eagle 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, Poland, located at the White Eagle Square.
Sight 13: Pałac Joński
The Ionian Palace is a palace in Szczecin located at 3 Eagle White Square, in the Classicist style. The name comes from the characteristic pilasters in the Ionic order.
Sight 14: 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 15: Zbór Kościoła Adwentystów Dnia Siódmego
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Szczecin is an Adventist church in Szczecin, Poland, which 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 16: Stajnia książęca
The prince's stable - a historic building from around 1600. Originally on the first floor there was a rotation warehouse. The lower part served as a stable and riding school. The building is located at 3 Rycerska Street, next to the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin.
Sight 17: Pomnik Bogusława X i Anny Jagiellonki
The monument of Duke Bogusław X and his wife Princess Anna Jagiellon is located at Korsarzy Street in Szczecin, in the north-western 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 18: Kościół świętego Piotra i świętego Pawła
The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Szczecin is a small Gothic brick aisleless church in Szczecin, Poland. This church is located on the European Route of Brick Gothic. Currently, it is a parish church of the Polish Catholic Church.
Sight 19: 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 20: Morskie Centrum Nauki im. prof. Jerzego Stelmacha
The Prof. Jerzy Stelmach Maritime Science Centre in Szczecin is a science centre located at 1 Nad Duńczyca Street in Szczecin, Poland. The mission of the Science Centre in Szczecin is to support the discovery of the world with the use of scientific tools, to stimulate active action and to build the identity and brand of the region based on its relationship with the sea.
Wikipedia: Morskie Centrum Nauki im. prof. Jerzego Stelmacha w Szczecinie (PL), Website
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