Churches and monasteries
a Baroque chapel where about three thousand human skulls cover the walls and vault
Museums
an open-air museum with seventeen historic wooden buildings from the Sudeten Foothills
eighteen rooms with a hologram of Liczyrzepa and a UV flashlight game revealing hidden signs
Museums
an exhibition of the Table Mountains' nature on the site of the former Frog Museum, with free admission by booking
Museums
historic post windmill from 1902, pottery demonstrations and a forge in an outdoor showcase farm
Mountains
a 915-metre peak on a table mountain in the Table Mountains, within the national park
Museums
a private collection of more than 650 minerals, gemstones and fossils from five continents
a forested elevation in the Table Mountains with a winter sports centre at its foot
Museums
more than 10,000 toys from antiquity to the 1980s, the only Polish museum invited to Istanbul
a 523-metre spindle-shaped hill of the Table Mountains, right on the border with the Czech Republic
Churches and monasteries
an eclectic church from the end of the 18th century on Góra Parkowa, entered in the heritage register
Churches and monasteries
19th-century Evangelical Reformed church with an adjoining cemetery of the same denomination
Churches and monasteries
a baroque filial church from 1908-1909 with a surviving Czech-German cemetery from before the war
Culture
a spa town library with a board game and Albik pen lending service and a drive-in cinema
Kudowa-Zdrój solo: museums, churches, summits and a library where you can go at your own pace. A plan for someone who likes quiet and curiosities.
Best where nobody rushes. Start with the Skull Chapel in Czermna, a Baroque cemetery chapel whose walls and vault are covered with thousands of skulls and bones. Father Wacław Tomaszek gathered them in 1776-1784. The place calls for seriousness and silence, and that is exactly why it is better visited without company that distracts.
Three more places of worship are the Church of Christ the Lord from 1797-1798 on Park Hill, the Evangelical Reformed church in Pstrążna from 1847-1848, and the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Słone district, with a Czech-German cemetery from before the Second World War.
Those where you decide how long to stop. The Museum of Minerals has over 650 specimens from five continents and a meteorite, and seeing everything takes about 40 minutes. The Toy Museum on Zdrojowa Street shows more than 10,000 toys from antiquity to the 1980s. The Interactive Museum of the Kłodzko Land has eighteen rooms, a hologram and a game with UV torches.
Nature is covered by the Table Mountains National Park Eco-Centre, and crafts by the Trail of Vanishing Trades and the Museum of Folk Culture of the Sudeten Foothills in Pstrążna. For a cloudy afternoon there is also the Municipal Public Library with board games and book clubs.
Each of these places has a story. In the Eco-Centre the Frog Museum worked in 2002-2013 with about 3,000 exhibits, and today's centre, opened in 2014, takes its place. The Church of Christ the Lord has eclectic organs from 1874-1879 and a Rococo altar installed in 1975. In Pstrążna the first building moved to the open-air museum was a residential and farm house with a smithy, and the structures were built without nails, with log joints. Such details are best noticed slowly and without conversation.
Skalniak (915 m) lies within Table Mountains National Park, so keep to the trails. Świni Grzbiet (528 m) is lower, with a flat top and a winter sports centre at its foot. Bluszczowa Góra (523 m) rises above Czermna by the Polish-Czech border. The lower hills suit a shorter walk and Skalniak a longer one. Tell someone which route you choose.
More options appear on the pages for museums in Kudowa-Zdrój, churches and monasteries and mountains. The solo list for the whole region is under solo.
