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Gniezno

Gniezno is a city in central-western Poland, about 50 kilometres east of Poznań.

Gniezno
Gniezno · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Gniezno is a city in central-western Poland, about 50 kilometres east of Poznań. Its population in 2021 was 66,769, making it the sixth-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The city is the administrative seat of Gniezno County (powiat).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gniezno

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Primatial Basilica Metropolitan Cathedral of Gniezno

    The Royal Gniezno Cathedral (The Primatial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Shrine of St. Adalbert, Polish: Bazylika Archikatedralna Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny i Sanktuarium św.

    200 m · cathedral · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Saint John the Baptist church in Gniezno

    The Church of St. John the Baptist is a monument in Gniezno, Poland.

    200 m · church building in Gniezno, Poland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Saint George church in Gniezno

    The Church of St. George, also known as the Seminary Church of St.

    300 m · church building in Gniezno, Poland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Assumption and St

    Landmark cathedral with the reliquaries of St.

  2. 02
    Church of St

    Gothic church from the mid 13th century, with unique polichromy in the presbytery.

  3. 03
    Franciscan Assumption and St

    Anthony's Church (Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny i św.

  4. 04
    The Gniezno Archbishopric Museum
  5. 05
    Museum of Beginnings of The Polish State

From Wikivoyage: Gniezno, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

International Jazz Festival (Jazz Pod Piątką) (Jazz in the building number 5). In June. International Organ Festival (Musik in the Gniezno Cathedral walls). Concerts on Sundays in June and July. Polish Amateur Film Festival "Offeliada'. In October. Juwenalia (The festival of students of the Collegium Europaeum University, the Gniezno State Professional High School). In May. Nameday of Gniezno.

From Wikivoyage: Gniezno, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

City Bar, 15, Rynek Square, sunnytravel@hotel-victoria.pl. Hubertus, 2, Kolejowa str, 95095544@pro.onet.pl. Stołówka CEG, 5-7 Kostrzewskiego str,. Wenecja, 9, Jeziorna str,. Europejska, 19, Dabrowki str,. Herbowa, 106, Roosevelta str, restauracjaherbowa@02.pl. Klub Muzyczny "Młyn" (Music Club „The Mill”),. Królewska, 3, Chrobrego str, hotel-pietrak@home.pl. Leo Libra, ul, Pustachowska 1,.

From Wikivoyage: Gniezno, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Gniezno

Airports
Poznań-Ławica (POZ), 54 km · Łódź Władysław Reymont (LCJ), 153 km · Copernicus Wrocław (WRO), 167 km
  • Poznań → Gniezno
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · zł11–15
  • Łódź → Gniezno
    154 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · zł41–55
  • Wrocław → Gniezno
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · zł50–65
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gniezno

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gniezno. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTo go to Ostrów Lednicki Island from the parking, you have to pass the ticket office, decline a little bit to the lake shore and use a ferry to get to the island.

From Wikivoyage: Dziekanowice, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    503 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    849 km
  3. 03
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    853 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    881 km
  5. 05891 km

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Around it

Next door to Gniezno

Gniezno is 47 km from Poznań, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.