The Poznań Palm House has been located in Wilson Park for over a hundred years, being the oldest and largest garden of this type in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe. It invites visitors on an unforgettable journey to distant continents among the rich vegetation of various climatic zones. The experience is further enriched by the sounds of live birds, the sound of water and aquariums...

The Wielkopolska Ethnographic Park is situated at the edge of the village of Dziekanowice, near National Road 5 from Poznań to Gniezno. It is placed in the south-eastern coast of the picturesque Lake Lednica and is one of the largest open air museums in Poland. Its centre is a ring-shaped village of a circular type, composed of original peasant homesteads, mainly of a 19th c. date, which were...

Ostrów Lednicki is an island in Lake Lednica, situated near a route from Poznań to Gniezno. The earliest surviving traces demonstrate that a settlement developed there about 11,000 years ago. In the Early Middle Ages on this island one of the most important strongholds of the first Piast state was built. It was constructed in the second half of the 10th c. at the place of earlier, smaller...

History of Wilson Park 1834  - on the initiative of the Beautification Society, the Beautification Society was established in the commune of St. Łazarz, a nursery of ornamental trees and shrubs near Poznań, occupying the area of ​​the current Wilson Park. 1904  - the nursery is turned into a botanical garden by the Poznań city authorities. The park layout was designed by H. Kube. The...

Giecz, one of the main strongholds of the Piast monarchy, alongside Poznań, Gniezno, Ostrów Lednicki and Łekno, was constructed in the second half of the 9th c. to the south of the mentioned fortresses. The enlargement of the centre took place in the second half of the 10th c. The invasion of the Czech Duke Břetislav and resettling of inhabitants of the stronghold to Bohemia in 1039 impeded...