A city with a Renaissance Old Town, a castle chapel with medieval frescoes and the Grodzka Gate. Two days of walking, good food and sightseeing, with an optional side trip to Zamość.
Trip plan
Weekend plan
- Saturday, 10:30 — Arrive in Lublin and walk from the Kraków Gate through the Old Town Market Square.
- Saturday, 12:30 — The Crown Tribunal on the Square and the Grodzka Gate, home to a centre documenting the city's past.
- Saturday, 14:30 — Lunch in the Old Town.
- Saturday, 16:00 — Lublin Castle and the Holy Trinity Chapel with its medieval frescoes.
- Sunday, 09:30 — Breakfast, then Krakowskie Przedmieście and Litewski Square.
- Sunday, 11:30 — The Trinitarian Tower for city views, or the Lublin Open-Air Village Museum.
- Sunday, 14:00 — Optionally on to Zamość, or back to Warsaw.
What to see
- Old Town and Market Square — Renaissance townhouses and narrow lanes.
- Lublin Castle — the Holy Trinity Chapel with Byzantine-Ruthenian frescoes.
- Grodzka Gate — the old link between the Christian and Jewish parts of the city.
- Trinitarian Tower — a viewpoint over the Old Town.
- Zamość — a Renaissance UNESCO town about 90 km from Lublin.
Where to eat
Try cebularz, Lublin's onion flatbread, as a first bite. The cuisine mixes Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian influences. Look for small places in the Old Town and on Krakowskie Przedmieście.
Where to stay
Hotels and apartments in the Old Town and on Krakowskie Przedmieście. Cheaper hotels near the station are within easy reach of the centre.
Photos: Bartek z Polski, CC0; Krzysztof Kokowicz, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl; tawa, CC BY-SA 3.0; Max Dziekański, CC BY-SA 4.0