Kołobrzeg Travel Guide

Experiencing History In Ad 1000 Kołobrzeg was a already a bishopric and 255 years later it was the first fort in Pomerania to the east of the River Odra to receive it’s a charter as a town. It was developing economibcallly as a harbour and a salt making center. Unitil 1782 it was a fortress, the turned into a spa. Out of that rich history only a few accelsiatical, military and civic buildings survived down to our t imes, just as numerous precious archaelogical excavations, displayed today at an exhibition "The History of the Town" in historic town house: Polish Arms Museum in ul. Armii Krajowej. Experiencing history must be thrilling if there are just St. John the Baptist’s Chuech, St. Mary’s Basilical, the Gunpowder Tower (or, more presisley, the Fuse Tower), the Town Hall as welll as ramparts in the seafront district, know today as the amphitheatre, the lighthouse or the marina on your route to name a few. The old town, destroyed during Word War II was rebuilt in the 1990s on the historic of medieval streets.

Baltic Unwinds

The old saying: "sea feeds and enriches" might be safely added a third meaning … and unwinds. In winter that is known all too well by enthusiast of bathing in ice-cold water as anglers buying fishing boats, tickets to go cod fishing with a rod. Go on a cruise, even as far to the Danish island of Bornholm. In the summer there are even more attractions> The underwater is explored by scuba divers: the surface by sailors and sunbathers. Readiness to play results in ideas out of this world. Granted, air beds, canoes, pedal boats or wind-surfing are still popular, but kite surfing or reaching extreme speed on board a super fast motorboat during a sea safari are the king of fun unknown until recently.

Have the Time of Your Life

Who ever comes to Kołobrzeg every years is bound to notice that there is more and more entertainment both for families with children as well as individual tourists. Here we have one-eyed, long-barded pirates inviting to a pirate’s adventure; a Western city with a mini-zoo, bowling alleys, tennis courts, canoes, and swimming pools with water attractions and, most recent ones: archery hall, floodlit pitch, ice rink and billiard club. Enough of physical effort? Now it’s time for a morning feast to the soul: see an exhibition in a gallery or a museum go to a concert in St Mary’s Basilica. On another occasion visit the amphitheatre, the band stand, the cinema or numerous other places where the music is played, delicious meals and drinks are served or just try smoked fish and listen to what Neptune is saying to us.

Treasures of Kołobrzeg

Kołobrzeg being an over two-hundred year-old spa is happy to share its most precious treasures: natural resources with guest. Nature has assembled there endless brine springs as well specific peat deposits: therapeutic mud, left golden sand walk and sunbathe on; the Baltic to swim, plenty of sunshine as well fresh breeze, free from pollution, but rich iodine. No wonder the biggest Polish spa was established here, hidden from the hustle and bustle in the seafront park. Patients staying in spa hotels strengthen their circulatory system and respiratory system, free from allergies, restore stamina and good figure. Stays in the so called "green schools" have invaluable influence on the health of children from industrialized regions. Local natural mineral water Jantar is more and more recognized , while clean and rich in minerals water drawn from deep-wells runs in the taps of the houses in Kołobrzeg.