Travel Guide
Kashubian Region
Kashubian Region covers the areas stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Tuchola Forests. The Kashubian region is famous not only for its rich nature, but also for its culture and traditions.
The tourist attractions include, among other things, an open-air ethnographic museum in Wdzydze Kiszewskie, a Museum of Kashubian Ceramics in Chmielno and the highest Kashubian mountain in Wiezyca. Kashubian people speak Kashubian language, classified either as a language or a Polish dialect. In analogy to the linguistic classification, Kashubians are considered either an ethnic or a linguistic group. Kashubia is a lake district in north Poland in Pomeranian Voivodship. It is surrounded by many hills made by Scandinavian glaciers. The traditional capital of Kashubia was always Gdansk. Today there are many cities which claim to be the capital: Kartuzy, Koscierzyna, Bytow and Wejherowo. The total number of Kashubians varies depending on one's definition. A common estimate is that over 300,000 people in Poland are of the Kashubian ethnicity. The most extreme estimates are as low as 50,000 or as high as 500,000.
[Outside Gdansk]
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