Malbork Sights

  1. Malbork Castle & Museum

    Malbork's showpiece extraordinaire is the massive castle that sits on the bank of the Nogat River, an eastern arm of the Vistula. Built by the Teutonic Knights, the Marienburg (Fortress of Mary), was the main seat of the order for almost 150 years, and its vast bulk is an apt embodiment of its weighty history.

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  2. Skwer Esperanto

    If you've seen the castle and have more time to kill in Malbork, walk south along the line of the river, past impressive remnants of the old city walls, to Skwer Esperanto, behind the Hotel Stary Malbork. This scrappy park isn't much to look at, but around its edge are commemorative stones placed by keen international speakers of Esperanto from as far away as Korea and Congo, in honour of the world language invented by Ludwig Zamenhof. There's a monument to the great man in the middle of the park. The explanatory signage is in Polish…and Esperanto, naturally.

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