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

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).
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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.
- 01Primatial 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 - 02Saint 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 - 03Saint 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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Assumption and St
Landmark cathedral with the reliquaries of St.
- 02Church of St
Gothic church from the mid 13th century, with unique polichromy in the presbytery.
- 03Franciscan Assumption and St
Anthony's Church (Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny i św.
- 04The Gniezno Archbishopric Museum
- 05Museum of Beginnings of The Polish State
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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.
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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,.
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Getting to Gniezno
- Airports
- Poznań-Ławica (POZ), 54 km · Łódź Władysław Reymont (LCJ), 153 km · Copernicus Wrocław (WRO), 167 km
- Poznań → Gniezno46 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · zł11–15
- Łódź → Gniezno154 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · zł41–55
- Wrocław → Gniezno164 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · zł50–65
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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Gniezno is 47 km from Poznań, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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