POLAND'S TREASURES HIDDEN FROM TOURIST VIEW

This is the article that inspired the 'Mike Dembinski Committee' who organised the first (2003) Seminar on Railway and Industrial Heritage.

by Michael Dembinski BPCC Portal Editor

Scan the holiday classifieds in the Sunday Telegraph, Mail on Sunday or Spectator, and among all the offers from France, Tuscany, Portugal, Seychelles etc, you will not find one from Poland. And yet Poland has so much to offer the intelligent tourist wanting to get away from the monotony of beach holidays.

2000hp 1910 winding engine"Krolowa Luiza" Coal Mine

How many of you have been to coal-mining museum in Zabrze, which boasts one of Europe's largest functioning steam engines driving the winding gear, and a 90 minute tour underground? Or been on the Elbląg Canal, where boats are winched up long slipways connecting different levels of the waterway? Or visited Wojnowice, a beautifully-restored 16th Century moated palace near Wrocław? Or heard the angelic choirs at Przemyśl's Orthodox cathedrals? Or explored the network of bunkers stretched across north-west Poland, built to shield the Third Reich from Stalin's tanks? How many of you have even heard of these attractions? And Poland has many hundreds more scattered across its 200,000 square miles…

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