Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Now premiering across the US on public television — check your local listings. Also streaming at ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/poland This one-hour "best of Poland" special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and nearby, communist-era Nowa Huta and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdańsk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.
*Check out more Rick Steves’ Europe travel resources:*
“Rick Steves’ Europe” public television series: ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show
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Travel gear: store.ricksteves.com/shop
Travel classes: ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/travel-talks
Rick Steves Audio Europe app: ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-europe
Rick Steves, America's most respected authority on European travel, writes European travel guidebooks, and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.
Now premiering across the US on public television — check your local listings. Also streaming at ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/poland This one-hour "best of Poland" special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle, and nearby, communist-era Nowa Huta and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to bustling Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Toruń, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdańsk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.
*Check out more Rick Steves’ Europe travel resources:*
“Rick Steves’ Europe” public television series: ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show
“Travel with Rick Steves” public radio program: ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/radio
European tours: ricksteves.com/tours
Guidebooks: store.ricksteves.com/shop/guidebooks
Travel gear: store.ricksteves.com/shop
Travel classes: ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/travel-talks
Rick Steves Audio Europe app: ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-europe
Rick Steves, America's most respected authority on European travel, writes European travel guidebooks, and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.
