On the way

What to see on the way from Kraków to Gdańsk

It is about 598 km from Kraków to Gdańsk, roughly 5 h 46 min of driving without breaks.

Along the way we suggest 10 stops worth leaving the road for: heritage, nature and curiosities. A typical detour is 16 minutes: the extra time to drive to a stop and back to the route.

Stops are listed in driving order, each with the time it adds and its distance from the start.

  • 598 km
  • 5 h 46 min
  • 10 stops
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Stops on the way

  1. Stop 1

    +20 min detour 33 km from the start Show on map

    Tenczyn Castle

    Photo: Tenczyn Castle
    Jakub Hałun CC BY-SA 3.0

    Renaissance castle ruins, part of the Eagles' Nests system, in the village of Rudno (Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship).

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  2. Stop 2

    +9 min detour 90 km from the start Show on map

    St Catherine's Chapel in Dąbrowa Górnicza

    Photo: St Catherine's Chapel in Dąbrowa Górnicza
    Zontunex CC BY-SA 3.0

    An 18th-century Roman Catholic chapel in the Pod Górą area of Dąbrowa Górnicza (Silesian Voivodeship), listed in the Polish register of monuments.

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  3. Stop 3

    +9 min detour 168 km from the start Show on map

    Church of St Leonard the Abbot in Mykanów

    Photo: Church of St Leonard the Abbot in Mykanów
    Marek Silarski CC BY-SA 2.5

    A Roman Catholic parish church in Mykanów (Mykanów Commune, Częstochowa County), built in 1836 to a design by Henryk Marconi in the Gothic Revival style and entered in the heritage register.

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  4. Stop 4

    +13 min detour 241 km from the start Show on map

    Manor Park in Rękoraj

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    A manor park in Rękoraj-Kolonia (Moszczenica Commune, Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship), listed in the register of monuments.

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  5. Stop 5

    +7 min detour 263 km from the start Show on map

    Church of Divine Mercy in Wola Rakowa

    Photo: Church of Divine Mercy in Wola Rakowa
    Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) CC BY 3.0

    A Roman Catholic church in the village of Wola Rakowa, Brójce Commune, Łódź East County.

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  6. Stop 6

    +19 min detour 308 km from the start Show on map

    Manor Park in Piaski Bankowe

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    A manor park listed in the register of monuments, located in the village of Piaski Bankowe, Bielawy Commune, Łowicz County.

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  7. Stop 7

    +20 min detour 365 km from the start Show on map

    Kujawsko-Dobrzyński Ethnographic Park in Kłóbka

    Photo: Kujawsko-Dobrzyński Ethnographic Park in Kłóbka
    Semu CC BY-SA 3.0

    An open-air museum founded in 1993 in the village of Kłóbka (Lubień Kujawski Commune), a branch of the Museum of the Kujawy and Dobrzyń Land in Włocławek.

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  8. Stop 8

    +21 min detour 442 km from the start Show on map

    Museum of Literature and Printing

    Photo: Museum of Literature and Printing
    Urszula CC BY-SA 3.0

    A museum in Grębocin (Lubicz Commune, Toruń County), founded in 2004, with collections on the history of European and Asian literature, papermaking and printing.

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  9. Stop 9

    +7 min detour 470 km from the start Show on map

    Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of the Snows in Lisewo

    Photo: Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of the Snows in Lisewo
    Margoz CC BY-SA 4.0

    A Roman Catholic church in Lisewo (Chełmno County), built at the end of the 13th century and listed in the register of monuments.

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  10. Stop 10

    +25 min detour 549 km from the start Show on map

    Parish Cemetery in Rajkowy

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    A Roman Catholic cemetery founded in 1779, located in the village of Rajkowy in the Pelplin commune.

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Driving the other way?

Driving from Gdańsk to Kraków, you reach the same stops in reverse order – read the list from the bottom.

Plan the route from Gdańsk to Kraków

How stops are chosen: the planner routes the drive, checks places up to 5 km from the road and routes the real detour to each; it keeps those that add at most 30 minutes. Data: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata, Wikipedia, the NID heritage register (CC BY 4.0), Opencaching.PL (CC BY-SA 3.0 PL), photos from Wikimedia Commons with their author and licence.