Wielkopolska – a magic land Wielkopolska's varied landscape encourages active recreation. The local forests and lakes are among the most beautiful in the country. Tourists can also experience numerous landscape parks, hiking trails and bicycle paths, as well as many charming, historic manor-houses, palaces, and parks scattered throughout the region. If someone thinks that it's not enough, they simply have to visit the monuments in the region's capital – Poznań.
The Wielkopolska Region is located on a lowland area among the basins of three rivers: Warta, Noteć, and Prosna. With beautiful landscapes rich in lakes, forests, and hills, which owe their current character to the Weichselian glaciation, the region is very attractive for people interested in active recreation. In addition, in Wielkopolska tourists will find places related to the cultural heritage of the country – after all, it is here that the Polish statehood began to form. If we add a well-developed tourist infrastructure, the area seems to be an ideal tourist destination.
The Wielkopolska Region is one of the most economically developed regions in Poland, consistently ranking among the country's leaders across a wide range of economic statistical indicators. It is characterised by a relatively high concentration of business entities and invested foreign capital, as well as a long-standing low registered unemployment rate. The region's economic standing is the result of systematic growth driven by a substantial degree of industrialisation and an advanced technological level. Factors contributing to this rapid economic development include the high potential of local human capital, good transport connections, an extensive business support infrastructure, and deep-rooted traditions of industrial ...
Wielkopolska Region: the underlying culture
People of the Wielkopolska Region are famous for their positivist thinking, which translates into activities associated with thrift, good organisation and practicism. One of the solid bases underlying the functioning of our Region is culture. It is culture that inspires, teaches and creates a friendly living environment for people of the Wielkopolska Region. The Wielkopolska Region is particularly distinguished by strong local communities, with their members being not only recipients, but also co-creators of cultural phenomena. In our Region, professional artists’ skills intertwine with amateurs’ creative passion.
The Wielkopolska Region holds large cultural events attracting not only locals, but also visitors and guests from all over ...
The coat of arms of the Wielkopolska Region is gules, an eagle displayed argent, wings charged with trefoils, beak to dexter, legs and band on tail Or, in field gules on heater shield escutcheon.
The eagle refers to king Przemysław II (1257-1296) and his majesty's seal from his times as a duke. The eagle appeared first in 1290, five years before crowning, and was well-associated with the old Polish Piast dynasty already back then.
The flag of the Wielkopolska Region is a right trapezium, per pale gules and argent, square dexter charged with eagle (as in the coat of arms).
The coat of ...
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