Poland: Bochnia Salt Mines

The Bochnia Salt Mine  in Bochnia, Poland, is one of the oldest salt mines in the world and is the oldest commercial company in Poland. The Bochnia salt mine was established in 1248 after salt had been discovered there in the 12th and 13th centuries, and became part of the royal mining company, żupy krakowskie (Kraków Salt Works). In 1990 the mine ceased producing salt but remains a tourist attraction.In 1981 the Bochnia salt mine was declared a heritage monument. It is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii), as designated on 6 October 2000, and is overseen by the National Heritage Board of Poland. The chapel in the mine has train tracks running through it.

Thanks to Mr Sebastine. He has 2 stamps. One on the right is from 2021 and was issued during Tokyo
 Olympics. And one on the left is on Winter Olympics issued this year.

Poland: Pieniny National Park

Pieniny National Park  is a protected area located in the heart of Pieniny Mountains in the southernmost part of Poland. Administratively, the Park lies in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship on the border with Slovakia.

Thanks to Ms Kemile. On the right is a 2019 Europa stamp featuring common Chaffinch. On the left is 1zt stamp on sunflower.

Poland: Zakopane (Shaped Card)

Zakopane is a town in the extreme south of Poland. It lies in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. Zakopane is a center of Góral culture and is known informally as "the winter capital of Poland.” It is a popular destination for mountaineering, skiing and qualified tourism.

Thanks to Ms Paula. She says its the most beautiful place in her country. Indeed it looks like one. I would love to do mountaineering in Tatra mountains. 

Poland: Tatra Mountains

The Tatra Mountains, Tatras or Tatra, is a mountain range that forms a natural border between Slovakia and Poland. This is the highest mountain range in the Carpathian Mountains. The Tatra Mountains occupy an area of 785 square kilometres, of which about 610 square kilometres (77.7%) lie within Slovakia and about 175 square kilometres(22.3%) within Poland. The highest peak, called Gerlach, at 2,655 m is located north of Poprad, entirely in Slovakia. The highest point in Poland, Rysy, at 2,503 m is located south of Zakopane, on the border with Slovakia.

Thanks to Dr Kiran Acharya.

Poland: Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.  Shown on the card is main SS Guardhouse known as the Death Gate

Postcard 1

Thanks to Mr Kiran Acharya for sending this from Poland. Nice Picture Postmark Used

Postcard 2

                           

Thanks to Ama. 

Poland: Bydgoszcz

Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. Bydgoszcz is the eighth-largest city in Poland. Bydgoszcz is an architecturally rich city, with neo-gothic, neo-baroque,neoclassicist, modernist and Art Nouveau styles present, for which it earned a nickname Little Berlin. The notable granaries on Mill Island and along the riverside belong to one of the most recognized timber-framed landmarks in Poland.

Thanks to Ms Anitha.

Poland: Warsaw Skyline

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland. Warsaw is one of Europe’s most dynamic metropolitan cities.In 2012 the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Warsaw as the 32nd most liveable city in the world. In 2017 the city came 4th in the “Business-friendly” category and 8th in “Human capital and life style”.It was also ranked as one of the most liveable cities in Central and Eastern Europe. On the right is Palace of Culture and science. On the left is Zolta 44.

Thanks to Ms Martha. She has used one of two, 2015 stamp featuring  a red rose.

Poland: Tarnowskie Mines.

The Historic Silver Mine, (Polish: Zabytkowa Kopalnia Srebra), is a mining museum in Tarnowskie Góry, in Silesia in Poland. The mine and the neighbouring Black Trout Adit are remnants of a silver mining industry. The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. In 2017 it became a UNESCO world heritage site.

Thanks to Mr Bordex.

Poland: Szczecin

Szczecin is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. In the vicinity of the Baltic Sea, it is the country's seventh-largest city and a major seaport in Poland. Szczecin is located on the Oder River, south of the Szczecin Lagoon and the Bay of Pomerania.

Poland: Smolnik

The card shows Church of saint Michael Archangle.

Thanks to Ms  Sylxie.

Poland: Kalwaria Zebrzydowska

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a breathtaking cultural landscape of great spiritual significance. Its natural setting – in which a series of symbolic places of worship relating to the Passion of Jesus Christ and the life of the Virgin Mary was laid out at the beginning of the 17th century – has remained virtually unchanged. It is still today a place of pilgrimage. 

 Thanks to Mr Boguslaw for the multiview card.

Poland: Malbork

This 13th-century fortified monastery belonging to the Teutonic Order was substantially enlarged and embellished after 1309, when the seat of the Grand Master moved here from Venice. A particularly fine example of a medieval brick castle, it later fell into decay, but was meticulously restored in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the conservation techniques now accepted as standard were evolved here. Following severe damage in the Second World War it was once again restored, using the detailed documentation prepared by earlier conservators. Shown on the card is Palace of Great Master, Courtyards of Middle and Lower Castle.

Thanks to Mr Boguslaw.

Poland: Wieliczka Salt Mine

This deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka-Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. Spread over nine levels, it has 300 km of galleries with works of art, altars, and statues sculpted in the salt, making a fascinating pilgrimage into the past of a major industrial undertaking. Seen on the multiview card is

1. The Weimar Chamber 2. The Warden sculptures in rock salt. 3. The Casimir the great chamber. 4. St Kinga's  Chapel. 

 Thanks to Ania.