One day in Oświęcim, Poland
A day through Oświęcim’s best-known sights that lie close together: Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and International Monument for the Victims of Fascism. 3 stops, about 0.7 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- AuschwitzMuseum · On the map
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State MuseumMuseum · Next to Auschwitz · On the map
- International Monument for the Victims of FascismMonument · 0.7 km on from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum · On the map
3 stops, 3.8 km on foot along the streets: about 47 min of walking.
More for Oświęcim
- Things to do in Oświęcim, Poland · 10 places to see, led by Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Day trips from Oświęcim
- Kraków52 km awayWawel Cathedral6 stops in a day, starting at Wawel
- Liptovský Mikuláš110 km awaywooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians13 places to see, led by wooden churches of the Slovak Carpathians and Havránok
- Olomouc149 km awayHoly Trinity Column in Olomouc6 stops in a day, starting at Olomouc Orthodox Church
- Katowice28 km awaySpodek6 stops in a day, starting at Silesian Museum in Katowice
Photo credits
- Auschwitz: pzk net, CC BY 3.0
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum: Air-Quad UG, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- International Monument for the Victims of Fascism: Pimke, CC BY-SA 3.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.
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