Film and TV locations in Poland
124 places to shoot in Poland: 28 industrial and derelict locations, 22 theatres, arenas and venues, 18 offices, schools and public buildings and 56 more. 30 have a photo and 78 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What Poland pays back
Poland runs the Polish cash rebate (PISF), worth 30% as a cash rebate. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 23 companies we list in Poland.
Regions
- Silesian Voivodeship 30
- Greater Poland Voivodeship 24
- Lodz Voivodeship 13
- Lower Silesian Voivodeship 6
- Lesser Poland Voivodeship 6
- Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship 6
- Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship 5
- Masovian Voivodeship 5
And single locations in 23 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Industrial and derelict locations in Poland 28
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 28 on their own page.
EC1 Lodz
Industrial & derelict
A former coal-fired power station of 1907 in central Lodz, restored as a science and culture centre with its original turbine hall, boiler house and control rooms intact.
Manufaktura
Industrial & derelict
Izrael Poznanski's 19th-century red-brick textile mill complex in Lodz, converted into a shopping, leisure and museum quarter around its original factory yard and chimney.
Stary Browar
Industrial & derelict
A former brewery in central Poznan converted into a mixed retail, dining and contemporary art complex, with the original brick brewery buildings kept alongside new gallery and shopping spaces.
Szombierki Coal Mine
Industrial & derelict
A disused coal mine in Bytom dating to 1870, with two shafts, winding towers, tracks and utility buildings behind a perimeter fence; the Krystyna shaft tower is a listed monument.
Parking available on site
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Warsaw Uprising Museum
Industrial & derelict
A former tram power station on Wola's Przyokopowa street, converted into a museum of the 1944 uprising, retaining its brick turbine hall and machinery among the exhibition spaces.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Industrial & derelict
A working salt mine near Krakow dating to the 13th century, its tunnels reaching over 300 metres deep and including carved underground chapels and chambers open to visitors.
Seen in: On the Silver Globe (1988), Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997)
Central Museum of Textiles (Biala Fabryka)
Industrial & derelict
A 19th-century cotton mill on Piotrkowska street in Lodz, the White Factory built by Ludwik Geyer, now a textile museum with large weaving halls, a chimney and a steam engine room, with space to hire.
Wynajem przestrzeni (venue rental) available for events
CMC Poland Steelworks, Zawiercie
Industrial & derelict
A working steelworks in Zawiercie founded in 1900 that rolls steel bars and profiles, with a gated entrance, caretaker's lodge, and a large yard usable as a parking or unit base.
Gated entrance with caretaker's lodge, large parking and staging area
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E64 Tower, Wrocław
Industrial & derelict
A 1952 railway water tower in Wrocław converted into a brick and steel venue of over 350 square metres, with a cafe, a workshop and conference space, two studio apartments and a rooftop terrace with a 360 degree view.
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Elektrownia Powisle
Industrial & derelict
A former Warsaw power station on the Vistula riverside, its turn of the century turbine and boiler halls converted into a retail, dining and event complex while keeping the original brick and steelwork.
Industrial-style halls for events and exhibitions, food hall, day spa
Former Halemba-Wirek Mine Dismantling Centre
Industrial & derelict
A former coal mine site in Ruda Śląska with intact workshop halls, overhead cranes, technological tracks, warehouses and an abandoned residential building, used mainly for exteriors.
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Gdansk Shipyard (European Solidarity Centre)
Industrial & derelict
The historic Lenin Shipyard gate and slipways where the Solidarity movement began in 1980, bordered by the European Solidarity Centre's rusted-steel museum building and surviving shipyard halls.
Seen in: Man of Iron (1981)
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H. Cegielski Works, Poznan
Industrial & derelict
The last working section of the historic Cegielski engineering works in Poznan, with early 20th-century production halls, later office blocks, in-house built machinery and its own rail siding.
Rail siding on site, mixed production and office halls
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Historic Guido Coal Mine
Industrial & derelict
A former working coal mine in Zabrze, now a branch of the Museum of Coal Mining, with underground tours down to 320 metres and a preserved pithead machine hall.
Jotes Machine Factory, Lodz
Industrial & derelict
A working machine-tool factory in Lodz tracing back to an 1866 mechanical workshop, still designing, building and distributing surface, cylindrical and internal grinders.
Seen in: Weekend
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Koneser (former Warsaw Vodka Factory)
Industrial & derelict
A former vodka distillery in the Praga district of Warsaw, its 19th-century factory buildings and central plaza now hosting restaurants, shops, galleries and a vodka museum, hired for markets, concerts and exhibitions.
KWK Centrum Coal Mine
Industrial & derelict
A Bytom coal mine, working from 1881 and in liquidation since 2015, with a mining shaft, an escape-apparatus store and a security building still standing among the halls being demolished.
Vehicle access, on-site production base, parking
Laziska Power Plant
Industrial & derelict
A coal-fired power station at Laziska Gorne built in 1917, still operated by Tauron, with heat-exchanger halls, an on-site energy museum and surrounding woodland and meadow.
Electricity on site, parking available, energy museum on the premises
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Miechowice Combined Heat and Power Plant, Bytom
Industrial & derelict
An operating heat and power plant in Bytom-Miechowice built 1950-1954 on former power-station grounds, with four chimneys, boiler halls and turbine sets amid urban forest.
Large parking area on site
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Mieszczański Brewery, Wrocław
Industrial & derelict
A 19th-century brewery complex on Hubska street in Wrocław's Huby district, operating from 1894 to 1996 and now a cultural venue with galleries, a theatre, a photography studio and workshop spaces.
Seen in: Breslau (TV series)
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MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art
Industrial & derelict
A contemporary art museum in Krakow's Zablocie district, built into the former administrative building of the Oskar Schindler Enamel Factory, with galleries laid out through the historic industrial structure.
Muzeum Hutnictwa Cynku Walcownia (Zinc Metallurgy Museum)
Industrial & derelict
A zinc-processing museum in the Szopienice district of Katowice covering over 5,000 square metres of former rolling-mill halls, with an intact production line of furnaces and rollers.
Norblin Factory
Industrial & derelict
A 19th-century metalware factory in the Wola district of Warsaw, its brick production halls preserved as an open-air industrial museum alongside offices, shops and restaurants across a 2 hectare site.
Atmospheric post-industrial halls used for conferences, premieres, concerts and fashion shows
Stara Gazownia, Poznan
Industrial & derelict
A mid-19th-century former gasworks on the Warta riverbank in central Poznan, part restored as red and clinker brick offices with a period staircase, part left in ruin.
Seen in: Transatlantyk Festival
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Sztygarka Training Mine (Kopalnia Ćwiczebna)
Industrial & derelict
An underground training mine built in 1927 for mining school students, with three levels of tunnels and period equipment, now a branch of the Sztygarka municipal museum.
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Tyskie Brewery (Tyskie Browary Książęce)
Industrial & derelict
A working brewery in Tychy dating to 1629, with a visitor centre inside its historic industrial buildings, noted by the regional film commission for its industrial character.
Wieża Ciśnień Katowice-Borki (Borki Water Tower)
Industrial & derelict
A 66-metre brick water tower in the Borki district of Katowice, built 1911 to 1912 to a design by the Zillmann architecture studio and topped with a helmet-shaped dome.
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Żywiec Brewery Museum
Industrial & derelict
A working brewery museum in Żywiec, opened 2006 on the site of an 1856 Habsburg-era brewery, with a recreated 19th-century street, a tavern, a bar and manufacturing spaces.
Electricity and on-site parking
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Theatres, arenas and venues in Poland 22
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 22 on their own page.
Cavatina Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
A large glass-fronted concert and conference hall in Bielsko-Biala, opened in 2023, shortlisted as a finalist in the regional Silesian Film Location 2024 competition.
Rentable spaces include the main hall, chamber hall, patio, foyer and dressing rooms (own site).
Centennial Hall
Theatre, arena & venue
A UNESCO-listed 1913 reinforced-concrete domed hall in Wroclaw, seating up to 6,000 beneath a 42-metre ribbed concrete dome, set in surrounding park and garden grounds.
Total floor area of about 14,000 m2, used for congresses, conferences, trainings and business and promotional meetings, with room for a main event...
Spodek
Theatre, arena & venue
A saucer-shaped 1971 sports and concert arena in central Katowice, its suspended roof spanning a hall seating up to about 11,500 for events.
Szczecin Philharmonic
Theatre, arena & venue
An angular glass and white concrete concert hall in Szczecin, winner of the EU Mies van der Rohe architecture award, with a large symphonic hall plus smaller chamber and multimedia halls and a hall rental service.
Teatr Muzyczny im. Danuty Baduszkowej
Theatre, arena & venue
A musical theatre building on plac Grunwaldzki in Gdynia with the largest musical stage in Poland alongside a new stage and a chamber stage, staging large scale musical productions.
Wielka Krokiew
Theatre, arena & venue
A ski jumping hill and stadium on the edge of Zakopane, host of the Four Hills Tournament and of televised New Year's Eve concerts broadcast live from its outrun and stands.
City Baths, Teatralna Street, Wrocław
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1897 eclectic municipal bath house in Wrocław, now a spa centre with three swimming pools, a steam bath, glazed vaulted ceilings and a distinctive water tower, listed as a historic monument since 1977.
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Expo Lodz exhibition hall
Theatre, arena & venue
A modern exhibition centre in Lodz with conference rooms alongside its main trade-fair hall, used for events and available for filming.
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ICE Krakow Congress Centre
Theatre, arena & venue
A congress centre on the Vistula riverbank in Krakow run by the city's development agency, with an auditorium hall, a theatre hall and a chamber hall used for conferences, concerts and theatrical productions.
Juliusz Slowacki Theatre
Theatre, arena & venue
A late 19th-century municipal theatre on plac Swietego Ducha in Krakow, with an ornate main auditorium plus the smaller Dom Machin and MOS stages, offering building tours and venue hire.
MOSiR Sports Hall, Lodz
Theatre, arena & venue
A 1957 socialist-realist sports hall in Lodz nicknamed the Palace of Sport, seating around 9,000 and also used for concerts, trade events and religious gatherings.
Seen in: Cold War, Commissioner Alex
Capacity: 9000
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National Forum of Music (NFM)
Theatre, arena & venue
A 2015 concert hall complex on plac Wolnosci in Wroclaw, run jointly by the city, the region and the ministry of culture, with a main hall plus red, black and chamber halls available to hire.
Four halls (Main Hall plus three chamber halls) plus a foyer and a VIP room available to hire, within about 50,000 m2 of event space. Includes...
Opera Lesna (Sopot Forest Opera)
Theatre, arena & venue
An open-air amphitheatre cut into wooded dunes above Sopot, seating around 4,300 beneath a part-covered stage, home to the annual Sopot Festival.
Pałac Kultury Zagłębia (Palace of Culture of Zagłębie)
Theatre, arena & venue
A 1950s culture centre in Dąbrowa Górnicza designed by Zbigniew Rzepecki, with a cinema hall, theatre stage, wedding hall and gallery still in public use.
PGE Narodowy
Theatre, arena & venue
Warsaw's national stadium of 2011, built on the site of the former Tenth-Anniversary Stadium, with a retractable roof and a facade patterned on the Polish flag.
Over 50,000 m2 of business space, including what the venue describes as the largest conference and congress centre in Warsaw (own site).
Polish Theatre, Bielsko-Biała
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1890 eclectic theatre building in Bielsko-Biała designed by Viennese architect Emil von Förster, with a Big Stage, a Small Stage and a smaller studio stage.
Electricity, water and parking on site
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Poznan International Fair (MTP)
Theatre, arena & venue
Poland's largest trade fair complex in central Poznan, dating from 1921, with 15 pavilions, a congress centre, banqueting spaces and an event plaza used for exhibitions and large-scale events.
15 exhibition pavilions, congress centre, underground parking, on-site hotels and restaurants
Silesian Trade Centre, Hall 3, Chorzow
Theatre, arena & venue
An empty 40 by 100 metre steel-framed exhibition hall at a trade centre next to Silesia Park in Chorzow, with a loading ramp and two vehicle entrance gates, ready to be dressed for a build.
Electricity on site, parking in front of the hall, loading ramp and two vehicle entrance gates
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Stadion Slaski
Theatre, arena & venue
A bowl stadium built in 1956 on a reclaimed slag heap in Chorzow, rebuilt with a membrane roof and seating around 54,000 for football, speedway and concerts.
Capacity: 54378 · Maximum stand capacity 54,378 (about 30,000 for concerts on the pitch), 2,092 business seats, 384 VIP box seats (22 boxes for 16 people, 1 box for...
Teatr Polski, Poznań
Theatre, arena & venue
An 1873-1875 theatre in Poznan built by public subscription, with a restored auditorium and boxes, its main facade partly original though foyer detail has since been altered.
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Tor Poznan racing circuit
Theatre, arena & venue
A car and motorcycle racing circuit near Poznan built in 1975-1977, with an adjoining karting track, small grandstands and a mix of open and wooded surrounding terrain.
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Tychy Municipal Sports and Leisure Centre, Indoor Pool
Theatre, arena & venue
A modern municipal indoor pool complex in Tychy, with a 25 by 12.5 metre competition pool with a diving tower and a separate warm-up pool.
Electricity, water and parking on site
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Offices, schools and public buildings in Poland 18
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 18 on their own page.
Poznan Town Hall
Office, school & public building
A Renaissance town hall of 1560 on Poznan's Old Market Square, rebuilt to Italian designs, with an arcaded facade, a mechanical clock with butting goats and a council chamber now a history museum.
Silesian Library
Office, school & public building
A glazed 1998 public library on European Council Square in central Katowice, with reading rooms, a hall and storage floors that read as modern civic interiors.
Electricity, water, high natural light and on-site parking
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Catholic University of Lublin (KUL)
Office, school & public building
A university in Lublin founded in 1918, with a historic main building on Aleje Raclawickie housing faculties, libraries and archives that include manuscripts by Adam Mickiewicz.
Chorzowska 50 office building
Office, school & public building
A fourteen-storey office tower in central Katowice with a retail arcade, conference centre and around 660 parking spaces across five levels, close to two regional airports.
660 parking spaces across five floors, on-site security and video surveillance, retail arcade
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Complex of Schools, Pyskowice
Office, school & public building
A red-brick Gothic Romanesque school building from 1861 in Pyskowice, with a main hall, classrooms, a computer lab and grounds including a sports field and parking.
Electricity, water and parking on site
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Huta Batory director's building
Office, school & public building
A 1915 modernist administration building at the Huta Batory steelworks in Chorzow, still in office use, with a roof turret, three bas-reliefs over the entrance and an interior courtyard.
Power and water, parking, meeting rooms, original period interiors
Jeżyce Fire Station, Poznań
Office, school & public building
A 1908 fire station in Poznan's Grunwald district with baroque-influenced brickwork, a training yard with obstacles for firefighters and a cobbled forecourt.
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Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice
Office, school & public building
A music conservatory in central Katowice combining a neo-Gothic former Silesian Sejm building with a modern wing holding a 480-seat concert hall, library and practice rooms.
Electricity on site, parking in front of the building
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Lodz Film School (PWSFTviT)
Office, school & public building
The national film, television and theatre school in Lodz, with shooting halls, screening rooms and post-production labs used by students, and a production history running through Polish cinema since the 1940s.
Seen in: Alumni include Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski
Morasko Campus, Adam Mickiewicz University
Office, school & public building
A university campus in northern Poznan built from 1984 onward in late modernist and postmodernist styles, with wide pedestrian routes, lecture buildings, a sports centre and a swimming pool.
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Poznań City Hall Offices (Urząd Miasta Poznania)
Office, school & public building
A baroque, horseshoe-shaped former Jesuit college in central Poznan built in two stages between 1701 and 1737, now the city administration's offices around a large courtyard.
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Poznan University of Physical Education campus
Office, school & public building
A university sports campus in Poznan with a multi-function stadium, swimming pool, tennis courts and a sports hall, alongside a 1960s socialist-realist main building and an early 20th-century rectorate.
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Rödl & Partner Office Building, Gliwice
Office, school & public building
A three-storey modernist office building in Gliwice, 300 metres from the Old Town, with meeting and conference rooms, a lecture hall, a terrace and parking in front.
Electricity and parking on site
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Sąd Rejonowy w Sosnowcu (Sosnowiec District Court)
Office, school & public building
A district court operating since 1945 inside one of the Schön family's eclectic 1903 palaces in Sosnowiec, with courtrooms set in the original ballroom, dining room and library.
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Silesian Voivodeship Office, Katowice
Office, school & public building
A 1925-1929 government headquarters in central Katowice with a 260-seat former regional parliament hall, a marble ceremonial hall, and six kilometres of corridors across 634 rooms.
634 rooms, 260-seat hall, marble hall, on-site parking
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Szkoła Podstawowa w Bieruniu (Bieruń Primary School)
Office, school & public building
A municipal primary school in Bieruń with an original wing from 1848 extended in later decades, now spread across two buildings with 42 classes and a gym hall.
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Textilimpex office building, Lodz
Office, school & public building
A mid to late 20th-century office building in central Lodz with a spacious entrance hall, listed by the local film commission for interior office shoots.
Seen in: Tabletki uspokajajace Labofarm
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University of Warsaw Library (BUW)
Office, school & public building
The main library of the University of Warsaw on the Vistula riverside, combining large glazed reading rooms with a landscaped roof garden above the building, and space available to hire for events.
Transport and infrastructure in Poland 17
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. All 17 on their own page.
Dworzec Letni, Poznan
Transport & infrastructure
A restored 1902 station building attached to Poznan's main railway station, with partly period-dressed interiors and a contemporary platform, repeatedly used as a film location.
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Poznań Garbary Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
A two-platform 1888 railway station near Poznan's Citadel, refurbished in 2008, with industrial land to the west and green riverside ground to the east.
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Poznań Główny Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
A 2012 postmodern integrated transport hub in Poznan combining the main railway and bus station with a shopping gallery, next to the older 1960s socialist-realist station building.
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Sieradz railway station
Transport & infrastructure
A 19th-century station building typical of small stations built under Russian rule, on the only stop between Lodz and Kalisz, about 70 kilometres from Lodz.
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Wrocław Świebodzki Railway Station
Transport & infrastructure
A disused 1843 railway terminus in Wrocław, closed to regular trains in 1991, now home to a stage of the Polish Theatre and a large Sunday flea market inside its restored hall.
Seen in: The Doll, The Teacher, Bodo
Brus Tram Depot, Lodz
Transport & infrastructure
The smallest tram depot in Lodz, on the road toward Konstantynow Lodzki, whose infrastructure has changed relatively little in a century of operation.
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Bytom railway station
Transport & infrastructure
A 1920s station building in central Bytom with a clock tower, a large unstaffed concourse without shops or ticket booths, underground passages and a train shed, now faded from its original state.
Parking nearby, bus station in close proximity
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Dworzec PKP Sosnowiec Główny (Sosnowiec Główny Railway Station)
Transport & infrastructure
A working railway station in Sosnowiec opened in 1859 on the Warsaw to Katowice line, with a 24-hour main hall, ticket counters and waiting benches.
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Franowo Tram Tunnel
Transport & infrastructure
A 2 kilometre tram line between Poznan housing estates that runs mostly through a tunnel separated from road traffic, ending at a modern loop and depot.
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Glogowska Tram Depot, Poznan
Transport & infrastructure
A working tram depot in Poznan opened in 1907 on a 2.9 hectare site, with vehicle maintenance halls, a 1962 office block and a preserved horse-drawn tram kept in running order.
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Kasprowy Wierch Cable Car
Transport & infrastructure
A 1936 aerial cableway climbing from Kuznice to the 1,987-metre summit of Kasprowy Wierch in the Tatras, run in two stages with a mid-station at Myslenickie Turnie.
Katowice-Muchowiec Airport
Transport & infrastructure
A small general-aviation airfield and aeroclub on the southern edge of Katowice, with grass and paved runways, hangars and open apron space inside the city ring road.
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Muzeum Emigracji (Emigration Museum)
Transport & infrastructure
A restored 1930s ocean liner terminal on the Gdynia waterfront, now the Emigration Museum, with its original passenger halls open to visitors and offered as rentable event space.
Rentable spaces at the Maritime Station building: an audiovisual room, a cinema room, the main hall and the exhibition corridor, used for conferences,...
ORP Blyskawica
Transport & infrastructure
A Grom-class destroyer launched in 1936 and preserved as a museum ship on Gdynia's waterfront, with its bridge, gun turrets and below-deck compartments open to visitors.
Capacity: 121 · The museum building (not the ship itself) rents an audiovisual hall for up to 121 people, with daylight and ceiling lighting, a screen and projector,...
Poznan-Lawica Airport
Transport & infrastructure
A single-runway regional airport in Poznan named after Henryk Wieniawski, with a compact modern terminal, a mezzanine level and a nearby vintage 1916 Albatros aircraft on display.
Large car park in front of the terminal
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Rędziński Bridge, Wrocław
Transport & infrastructure
A cable-stayed road bridge over the Oder in Wrocław carrying the A8 motorway on a single 122 metre pylon with 160 stays, spanning 612 metres as the tallest structure of its kind in Poland.
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Wolsztyn Roundhouse
Transport & infrastructure
A working steam locomotive depot in Wolsztyn, reputedly the only one in Europe still running scheduled passenger services, with around 30 steam locomotives, historic wagons and working repair workshops.
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Hospitals, prisons and institutions in Poland 10
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. All 10 on their own page.
Fort VI, Poznań
Hospital, prison & institution
One of the 19th-century ring forts of the Poznan Fortress, built to the German fortification pattern with barrack buildings, a caponier, a dry moat and outer gates largely unaltered.
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Areszt Śledczy w Zabrzu (Zabrze Remand Prison)
Hospital, prison & institution
A closed remand prison in Zabrze built in 1888 in the style of German 19th-century prison architecture, with around 290 cells across four wings, shut down in 2018.
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District Court Poznan-Stare Miasto
Hospital, prison & institution
A 1905-1908 Wilhelmine Baroque courthouse in central Poznan with wrought-iron staircase balustrades and restored courtrooms, standing next to a still-operating 19th-century prison.
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Former City Prison, Wrocław
Hospital, prison & institution
A former municipal prison on Więzienna street in Wrocław, built from the late 14th century and enlarged into a closed quadrangle by the 1680s, its basement interrogation cells now a pub and the rest an academic institute.
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Former hospital on Drewnowska street, Lodz
Hospital, prison & institution
A former hospital building on Drewnowska street in Lodz with its own chapel and grounds, listed by the local film commission as a location for institutional interiors.
Seen in: Kruk. Szepty slychac po zmroku
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Heliodor Święcicki Clinical Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
A working Poznan hospital complex combining a 1908 main building with a chapel, and later wings from 1973 to 2001, set among wooded grounds with benched paths.
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Regional Court in Katowice
Hospital, prison & institution
A six-storey courthouse in Katowice completed in 2009, an elongated cuboid block with 51 courtrooms, a planted internal courtyard and over 600 office rooms.
51 courtrooms, internal courtyard, rear parking area
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Regional Specialist Hospital No. 5, Sosnowiec
Hospital, prison & institution
A working trauma hospital in Sosnowiec opened in 1988 on the site of the former Coal Miners' Hospital, with a helicopter landing pad and an underground tunnel to its emergency department.
Helicopter landing pad, underground patient transfer tunnel, on-site car park
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Stary Szpital w Żywcu (Old Hospital, Żywiec)
Hospital, prison & institution
A disused hospital building on Sienkiewicza street in Żywiec, listed by the regional film commission as a filming site with on-site parking and mains utilities.
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Twierdza Boyen (Boyen Fortress)
Hospital, prison & institution
A 19th-century Prussian fortress in Gizycko with ramparts, a parade ground, a powder laboratory and an armourer's workshop, hosting reenactments, festivals and light shows on its central majdan.
Bars, restaurants and shops in Poland 5
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.
Hala Koszyki
Bar, restaurant & shop
A 1908 steel-framed market hall in Warsaw's Ochota district, restored behind its original facade into a food hall of restaurants, bars and shops around a glazed central nave.
Bedzin Marketplace
Bar, restaurant & shop
A twice-weekly outdoor market in Bedzin covering about 40,000 square metres of paved and hard-standing ground, with open stalls and covered commercial shelters.
Approximately 40,000 square metres of market ground, covered stalls, on-site parking
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Dobra Karma Restaurant, Katowice
Bar, restaurant & shop
A restaurant in a 20th-century tenement building in central Katowice, with a ground-floor bar and dining room, a first-floor lounge with a piano and a patio open spring to autumn.
Electricity, water and parking on site
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Restauracja Rusałka, Poznań
Bar, restaurant & shop
A lakeside restaurant a few minutes from central Poznan, set among woodland and used for dining, family occasions and corporate events year round.
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Water Tower Restaurant, Pszczyna
Bar, restaurant & shop
A 1926 municipal water tower in Pszczyna converted into a restaurant on its top floor, with a Steampunk-styled reception room spread across two levels of the tower.
Electricity, gas, water and parking on site
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Film studios and backlots in Poland 4
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. Film studios and backlots across Europe.
Alvernia Studios
Studio & backlot
A domed studio complex near Krakow with multiple sound stages and a large blue-screen hall, built on a former limestone quarry site 18 kilometres from Krakow Airport.
Seen in: Arbitrage (2012), Vamps (2012), Essential Killing (2010)
Sound stage K03: 2,000 m2 (about 21,505 sq ft), 14.5 m high, with a spherical shadeless 180 degree blue screen of 80 x 15 m, depth of field up to 50...
ATM Studio
Studio & backlot
Film and television production centre of around 14,000 square metres in Warsaw's Wawer district, with multiple soundstages, TV studios, production offices and post-production facilities.
Seen in: The Voice of Poland, Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami
Hall A 1,500 m2 (45 x 34 x 12 m) with a polished concrete floor rated 1 t/m2 and power connections 5 x 16A, 2 x 32A, 1 x 63A, 4 x 125A and 2 x 400A...
Studio Filmowe Arterion
Studio & backlot
Two air-conditioned sound stages in central Lodz, 15x11m and 17x10m with 4.2m ceilings, used for commercials, corporate video and photo shoots with blue and green screen.
Seen in: Komisarz Alex
Studio 1: 15x11m, 4.2m height. Studio 2: 17x10m, 4.2m height. 346m2 total, two dressing rooms with private bathrooms, two make-up rooms, suspended...
WFDiF (Wytwornia Filmow Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych)
Studio & backlot
Warsaw production complex dating to 1949, with two sound stages added in 1960 for feature films, historically used by directors including Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Two shooting halls of 600 m2 each with 8.5 m working height and air conditioning; a studio of 450 m2 with 4.3 m working height; a studio of 220 m2...
Hotels and interiors in Poland 4
Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. Hotels and interiors across Europe.
Czarny Las Hotel Palace, Woźniki
Hotel & interiors
A restored 19th-century manor house near Woźniki set in 3.66 hectares of grounds, run as a hotel and restaurant complex with period-styled interiors sleeping 56 guests.
Electricity, water and parking on site
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Hotel Diament Ustron
Hotel & interiors
A resort and spa hotel in the wooded Zawodzie district of Ustron, with a pyramid-shaped main building from 1979, 121 rooms, conference space and an indoor pool with a wave feature.
Capacity: 121 · 121 rooms, conference hall, spa and wellness area with pool, on-site restaurant, parking
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Podlesice 38
Hotel & interiors
A small countryside guesthouse near Kroczyce in the Polish Jura, with a 50 square metre apartment, three ensuite bedrooms, a living room and a terrace.
Electricity, water and parking on site
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Vienna House Easy Katowice
Hotel & interiors
A hotel on Sokolska street in central Katowice with a fully glazed ground floor holding the reception, lobby, restaurant and breakfast room in daylight-filled open space.
Cities and skylines in Poland 3
Skylines, rooftops, viewpoints and city panoramas for establishing shots. Cities and skylines across Europe.
Nowa Huta
City & skyline
A planned socialist-realist steelworkers' town built from 1949 beside the former Lenin steelworks, with a monumental central square, arcaded avenues and uniform apartment blocks.
Seen in: Man of Marble (1977)
Alfa Towers, Poznan
City & skyline
A row of five twelve-storey towers built 1965-1972 along Swiety Marcin street in central Poznan, ground floors let to shops and services, upper floors a mix of dated and modernised office space.
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Debiec socialist-realist estate, Poznan
City & skyline
A 1948-1960 planned housing estate on Kasztanowa street in Poznan's Debiec district, built as five residential colonies around shared courtyards and arcades, an example of Polish socialist-realist planning.
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Houses and apartments in Poland 3
Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. Houses and apartments across Europe.
Nikiszowiec
House & apartment
A brick workers' housing estate built 1908-1918 for the Giesche coal mine, its enclosed courtyard blocks, arcaded passages and communal bakery still inhabited today.
Superjednostka
House & apartment
A 15-storey slab apartment block in central Katowice built 1967 to 1972 from prefabricated concrete panels raised on stilts, holding 762 flats for about 3,000 residents.
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The Villa, Łaziska Górne
House & apartment
A two-storey brick villa built in 1908 for a coal mine director in Łaziska Górne, later a community centre and now offices, set in open grounds with mature trees.
Electricity, water and parking on site
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Churches and monasteries in Poland 2
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. Churches and monasteries across Europe.
Former synagogue, Zarki (MGOK)
Church & monastery
A 19th-century former synagogue in the small town of Zarki, now the municipal cultural centre (MGOK), with power, water and vehicle access offered for filming.
Kościół Św. Wawrzyńca w Mikołowie (Church of St Lawrence, Mikołów)
Church & monastery
A brick parish church in the Mokre district of Mikołów, built in the mid-16th century and rebuilt several times, with stained glass windows in its interior.
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Historic towns and streets in Poland 2
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Kazimierz, Kraków
Historic town & street
Kraków's former Jewish quarter, where synagogues, cobbled lanes and tenement courtyards still follow the pre-war street layout.
Seen in: Schindler's List (1993)
Plac Rybny, Będzin
Historic town & street
A small historic square in Będzin's old town named after its former fish market, framed by townhouses and used by the city for public events.
Open public square with parking nearby
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Palaces and landmarks in Poland 2
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Palace of Culture and Science
Palace & landmark
A 237-metre socialist-classicist tower built in 1955 as a gift from the Soviet Union, holding theatres, cinemas, a congress hall, museums and an observation deck over central Warsaw.
237 m tall building with 46 floors and 3,288 rooms; the viewing terrace is at 114 m.
Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi (Museum of Cinematography)
Palace & landmark
A house museum since 1986 in the former Scheibler family palace on Plac Zwycięstwa in Łódź, whose historic interiors have served as scenography for dozens of Polish films and TV series.
Seen in: Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana)
Modern architecture in Poland 2
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. Modern architecture across Europe.
Osiedle A
Modern architecture
The first planned housing estate of postwar Tychy, built from the 1950s with low modernist blocks around courtyards and green space, named winner of the Silesian Film Location 2024 award.
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Okrąglak Department Store, Poznań
Modern architecture
A cylindrical 1948-1955 department store in central Poznan, 45 metres tall with 9 floors above ground and 2 below, its interior staircase winding around a central shaft with a rooftop city view.
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Coast and beaches in Poland 1
Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.
Hel Peninsula
Coast & beach
A 35-kilometre sand spit enclosing the Bay of Gdansk, with pine-backed Baltic beaches on its open-sea side and a historic fishing town and former naval base at its tip.
Castles and estates in Poland 1
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. Castles and estates across Europe.
Ogrodzieniec Castle
Castle & estate
Ruined 14th-century castle on the highest hill of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, its broken towers rising among limestone outcrops on the Trail of the Eagles' Nests.
Seen in: The Witcher (2019)