S / West Pomerania Explore “a the Westpomeranian Region ■ ■ u m m u J ROUTES . .IV _ * # LAKE DISTRICTS WESTPOMERANIAN ^ Pomerania VOIVODSHIP Poland: located between the Baltic Sea and the Carpathian Mountains and the Sudetes. Area of the country: 312 685 km2. Administrative division: 16 voivodships Currency: Polish zloty Longest rivers: the Vistula River, the Oder River Official language: Polish In European Union: since 2004 Poland shares borders with the following countries: from the West with Germany, from the South with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, from the East with Ukraine and Belarus, and from the North with Lithuania and Russia (the Kaliningrad District). The Westpomeranian voivodship is located in the North-West Poland, at the coast of the Baltic Sea. The voivodship shares borders with the Pomeranian Voivodship from the East, the Great Poland and the Lubuskie Voivodships from the South, and from the West with German Lands: Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It covers the area of 22 892.48 km2. Szczecin is the seat of the voivodship authorities. Western Pomerania is the destination for holiday rest, a perfect place for active tourism, meetings with history, culture and tradition and finally a very attractive place for entertainment during numerous sports and tourist events. Explore Western Pomerania, the region located in the heart of Europe, in the North-West Poland, appealing with gorgeous sandy beaches, the Baltic breeze and much more! Discover how many attractions you may find in the land of lakes and rivers. Active tourists will be have an opportunity to practice sailing, windsurfing, kitesurfing, paragliding, canoeing, parachute jumping, and enjoy waterways, canoe trails, and golf courses. Advocates of hiking and biking will love tourist rails, interesting natural areas and monuments revealing the history of Western Pomerania. Old castles, courts and palaces reveal mysteries of their ancient owners and eminent rulers of the Duchy of Pomerania. You will encounter ancient constructions of the Cistercians, the Knights Hospitaller, the Augustinians and the Knights Templar, interesting granite churches, Gothic brick constructions and typical of Pomerania half-timbered constructions. Numerous cultural events, festivals and festivities, concerts and exhibitions will meet expectations of those seeking contact with culture. The biggest Polish island (Wolin) offers an open air ethnographic museum - a Slavic and Viking Center, the Wolin National Park, military structures dating back to XIX century and the World War Two. The offer is supplemented with modern hotels and cozy guesthouses, holiday centers, spa & wellness facilities as well as health resorts, roadside motels, camping and campsites. a Szczecin-Goleniow: Szczecin: <4b> - Warsaw " - Stargard Szczecinski, Gryfino, Chojna, - Krakow Kamien Pomorski, Szczecinek, Biatystok, Krakow, - Oslo Swinoujscie, Poznan, Kostrzyn, Kotobrzeg, - Edinburgh, London, Liverpool Warszawa, Pita, Zielona Gora, Stupsk, Lublin, Olsztyn, - Dublin Gdansk www.airport.com.pl - Berlin, Angermunde, Lubeck Szczecin: - S3 Gorzow Wiel - Ystad (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark) E65 Swinoujscie www.polferries.pl - A20 Rostock, A1 Unity Line - Ystad (Sweden) www.unityline.pl ■ g’iu floating garden -----050 SZCZECIN oject Szczecin, the capital city of the voivodship, called the "Paris of the North" because of its star-shaped squares and wide alleys constructed in XIX century in imitation of the capital city of France. In the past it fell under Polish, Danish, German, Swedish and Prussian administrations, and during the Napoleonic wars it was also a French fortress. As a city with a rich history it offers numerous monuments. The visiting of the city is facilitated by the City of Szczecin Tourist Route, which will lead us, among others, to the house where Tsarina Catherine the Great was born or to the Grumbkov Palace where Sophie of Wurttenberg was born (later Maria Feodorovna - the mother of tsars). Next to the palace, you may admire the baroque White Eagle fountain, and not far from there, there is the Gothic Archcathedral Basilica of St. Jacob with a highest observation tower in Szczecin. At the crossing o f taziebna and Staromtynska streets, The Museum of Technology you will find the house of Velthusen - a Dutch who and Communication - Art Depot in Szczecin. traded in wine, had a tobacco factory and a cane The museum is located in a modernized tram Over a half of the area of the city is covered by sugar refinery in Szczecin. The city center may boast depot. It exhibits trams, buses, cars, motorbikes, water and greenery. Szczecin seen from bird's with preserved baroque city gates: Portowa and bicycles, electronic, telecommunication and eye view looks like a huge floating garden. It Krolewska. Going to the East from the Krolewska household equipment. The showcase o f the is surrounded from three sides by Wkrzanska, Gate you will find the Castle of Pomeranian Dukes museum refers to products of Szczecin automotive Goleniow and Beech Forests. It enjoys many constructed in a Renaissance Italian style. The Castle industry since 1919. Mr. Leszek Wiszewski's forests and extensive parks being cut through by hosts art galleries, a cinema, concert halls, theatre collection of Polish motorization with over 100 a network of rivers, channels and pools. This is the stages, whereas, concerts of international stars objects constitutes an exceptional acquisition. potential of this city, which even at present makes take place on the yards o f the Castle. A short walk Szczecin an ideal place for resting, and according from the Castle, along the Oder River, will lead us to to a bold vision of transformations already started Waty Chrobrego [King Chrobry's Embankments]. under Floating Garden 2050 programme, the Located there representational constructions and management o f those areas and the development a spacious terrace with a view over the river were of investments in the future may change Szczecin erected in 1901-21. Vis a vis the terrace, there are into a new Venice of the North. little cruise vessels and a hydrofoil ship, by which you may cruise to Swinoujscie. Annual Days of the Sea and Yacht Oldtimers Rally take place at the foot of the Embankments and at the berth of the opposite tasztownia. The center of Szczecin attracts with the oldest operating cinema in the world - Pionier (Guinness World Records Certificate). The first film show took place on 26th September 1909. For full experience of Szczecin, you shall visit also the underground part of the city. The biggest civilian bunker in Poland is located at the Szczecin Central Railway Station. It was constructed during the Second World War. After the war, it was transformed into an atomic bunker. You may acquire:The Szczecin Tourist Card ensures discounts in certain cultural institutions, restaurants, etc. The card authorizes also to use public transport free of charge. Pomeranian Dukes Castle National Museum Pionier Cinema 1909 Tourist Information Center ul. Korsarzy 34, 70-540 Szczecin ul. Staromtynska 27, ul. Btonie 2, 70-561 Szczecin 70-470 Szczecin, al. Wojska Polskiego 2 ul. Jana z Kolna 7, 71-603 Szczecin phone: +48 91 489 16 30 (informacja turystyczna) ph o n e : + 4 8 91 431 52 00, fax: + 4 8 91 431 52 04 phone: + 48 91 434 77 02 p h o n e : + 4 8 91 4 3 4 04 40, fax: + 4 8 91 433 84 20 fax: + 48 91 4 3 4 79 84 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected], www.zamek.szczecin.pl www.muzeum.szczecin.pl www.kino-pionier.com.pl www.mosrir.szczecin.pl O p e ra a t th e C astle D zie w a n n a TRAFO Transformer Station of Art in Szczecin A. R. C en tru m W y n a jm u i Turystyki ul. Energetykow 40, 70-656 Szczecin ul. Iwaszkiewicza 78/A, 70-786 Szczecin centrum sztuki wspotczesnej ul. Kolumba 1 lok. 6, 70-035 Szczecin p h o n e : + 4 8 91 333 76 61, 91 4 3 4 81 02 phone: +48 91 460 14 37, +48 601 782 649 ul. Swi^tego Ducha 4, 70-205 Szczecin phone/fax: +48 91 434 08 01 [email protected] fax: + 4 8 91 4 6 0 10 42 ph o n e : + 4 8 91 4 0 0 00 49 www.podziemnyszczecin.com www.opera.szczecin.pl [email protected] [email protected] www.statek.pl Museum of Technology and Communication - Art Depot in Szczecin C ruise vessels ul. Niemierzynska 18A, 71-441 Szczecin ul. Jana z Kolna (vis a vis Watow Chrobrego) p h o n e : + 4 8 91 459 92 01 p h o n e /fa x : + 4 8 91 4 3 4 57 00, 91 488 47 10 www.muzeumtechniki.eu [email protected], www.statki.net.pl www.szczecin.eu 2 THE SZCZECIN LAGOON The Szczecin Lagoon is connected with the Baltic Sea by the Piana Strait (in the west), Swina (between the Usedom and Wolin islands) and Dziwna (in the east). It is subdivided into the eastern part - The Great Lagoon and the western part - The Small Lagoon. A rather small basin of small depth with characteristic and varied coastline. By the Lagoon, many commercial, fishing and yacht ports were opened in Stepnica, Wolin, Kamien Pomorski, Dziwnow, Trzebiez and Nowe Warpno. The lagoon houses a deepened fairway from Szczecin to Swinoujscie. The average depth of the Lagoon amounts to 3.8 m. The Lagoon is a popular place for recreation, water sports and fishery. Its waters might be reached by sailing from Germany to Stralsund, sailing into The Mi^dzyodrze area the Oder River waters or launching a boat in one Land located between the two branches of the Lagoon ports. By sailing on the Oder River, o f the Oder River.