Skip to content

VERRIÈRE

FRENDE 日本語

Country

Greenhouses to visit in Poland

The Verrière atlas lists 26 greenhouses in Poland, built between 1785 and 2023.

Poland has a network of municipal “palmiarnie” that is rare in Europe: Poznań, Gliwice, Wałbrzych, Łódź and Zielona Góra each maintain their own palm house, often rebuilt or modernised after the war. Warsaw adds the neoclassical orangery of Łazienki, a witness to 18th-century court culture.

26Greenhouses

1785Oldest — Old Orangery, Łazienki Park

2023Newest — Sosnowiec Egzotarium (Ecological Education Centre)

20Cities

See them on the globe →

All 26 greenhouses, oldest to newest

Old Orangery, Łazienki Park, Warsaw

Old Orangery, Łazienki Park

🇵🇱 Warsaw

The east wing of this neoclassical orangery still houses the court theatre built for Stanisław II August, opened on 6 September 1788.

PolandView entry →

Greenhouses of the Jagiellonian University Botanic Garden (Warszewicz Orangery), Kraków, Lesser Poland

Greenhouses of the Jagiellonian University Botanic Garden (Warszewicz Orangery)

🇵🇱 Kraków, Lesser Poland

The Viennese palm house of 1882, demolished in 1969, was rebuilt in 2025 on its original foundations in Poland's oldest botanic garden.

PolandView entry →

Łańcut Castle Orangery (Oranżeria), Łańcut, Podkarpackie

Łańcut Castle Orangery (Oranżeria)

🇵🇱 Łańcut, Podkarpackie

Built for orange trees brought from Wilanów, Łańcut's neoclassical orangery yielded two original furnaces and heating channels during its renovation.

PolandView entry →

Glasshouses and Palm House of the University of Wrocław Botanical Garden (Ogród Botaniczny UWr), Wrocław, Lower Silesia

Glasshouses and Palm House of the University of Wrocław Botanical Garden (Ogród Botaniczny UWr)

🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesia

Closed in 2006 and demolished in 2013, the palm house first built in 1823 is being reborn as a 13-metre, triple-glazed glasshouse.

PolandView entry →

New Orangery (Nowa Pomarańczarnia), Łazienki Park, Warsaw, Łazienki Park

New Orangery (Nowa Pomarańczarnia), Łazienki Park

🇵🇱 Warsaw, Łazienki Park

The second orangery of Łazienki, built in 1860-1861: its glazed hall with cast-iron columns holds tropical plants and the Belvedere restaurant.

PolandView entry →

Gliwice Municipal Palm House, Gliwice

Gliwice Municipal Palm House

🇵🇱 Gliwice

Three Canary Island date palms planted for the 1924 exhibition still grow under the same roof, through two complete rebuilds.

PolandView entry →

Moszna Castle Orangery (Oranżeria zamkowa), Moszna, Opole Voivodeship

Moszna Castle Orangery (Oranżeria zamkowa)

🇵🇱 Moszna, Opole Voivodeship

A glazed winter garden built with the neo-Gothic wing of a fairy-tale castle, still home to a ficus more than 70 years old.

PolandView entry →

Legnica Palm House (Palmiarnia Legnicka)

🇵🇱 Legnica, Lower Silesia

The second palm house in Silesia after Wrocław's, it received its first plants from Bordighera on the Italian Riviera in 1898.

PolandView entry →

Ulrich Greenhouses (Ogrody Ulricha, szklarnie Ulrichów)

🇵🇱 Warsaw (Wola), Masovia

The last glasshouses of a gardening dynasty that grew pineapples in Warsaw from 1835, reopened in 2022.

PolandView entry →

Palmiarnia Poznańska, Poznań

Palmiarnia Poznańska

🇵🇱 Poznań

60% destroyed by World War II bombing, Poland's largest greenhouse was rebuilt without ever losing its living collections.

PolandView entry →

Pojnarówka Art Nouveau greenhouse (Pojnarówka café), University of Agriculture

🇵🇱 Kraków, Lesser Poland

An Art Nouveau greenhouse of around 1912 on the monuments register, its cast-iron frame surviving under a photovoltaic glass roof, now a café.

PolandView entry →

Palmiarnia w Wałbrzychu, Wałbrzych

Palmiarnia w Wałbrzychu

🇵🇱 Wałbrzych

A princely 1911-1913 greenhouse lined with volcanic tuff from Etna, at the foot of Książ Castle.

PolandView entry →

New Glasshouse of the Zabrze Municipal Botanical Garden (Miejski Ogród Botaniczny w Zabrzu)

🇵🇱 Zabrze, Silesian Voivodeship

It replaces the German-era greenhouses of 1939, demolished from 2024: a glass hall over 10 m high, announced for early 2027.

PolandView entry →

Łódź Palm House, Łódź

Łódź Palm House

🇵🇱 Łódź

Nearly 4,500 specimens across more than 1,100 taxa grow in the historic Źródliska park, in central Łódź.

PolandView entry →

Zielona Góra Palm House, Zielona Góra

Zielona Góra Palm House

🇵🇱 Zielona Góra

Built over nineteenth-century wine cellars, it holds a Canary Island date palm counted among the tallest grown under glass in Europe.

PolandView entry →

Palm House (Palmiarnia) of the Dom Zdrojowy (Spa House), Nałęczów, Nałęczów (Spa Park), Lublin Voivodeship

Palm House (Palmiarnia) of the Dom Zdrojowy (Spa House), Nałęczów

🇵🇱 Nałęczów (Spa Park), Lublin Voivodeship

In the 1964 spa house, palms more than ten metres tall grow in the pavilion of the mineral-water pump room; the oldest is dated 1903.

PolandView entry →

UMCS Botanical Garden Greenhouses (Szklarnie Ogrodu Botanicznego UMCS)

🇵🇱 Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship

Two 1960s production greenhouses turned into a collection: over 500 cactus taxa and a tropical forest within about 700 m².

PolandView entry →

"Zielony Raj" Orangery, Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden (Powsin), Warsaw (Powsin), Masovia

"Zielony Raj" Orangery, Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical Garden (Powsin)

🇵🇱 Warsaw (Powsin), Masovia

Named "Zielony Raj" (Green Paradise) by public vote, it holds Poland's largest citrus collection.

PolandView entry →

Glasshouses and Orangery of the University of Warsaw Botanic Garden (Ogród Botaniczny UW), Warsaw, Masovia

Glasshouses and Orangery of the University of Warsaw Botanic Garden (Ogród Botaniczny UW)

🇵🇱 Warsaw, Masovia

An orangery from the reign of Stanisław August, a former "trebhauz" for forcing plants, stands beside a palm house opened in 2005.

PolandView entry →

Przelewice Gardens Orangery (Oranżeria w Przelewicach)

🇵🇱 Przelewice, West Pomerania

A barn gutted by fire in 1997, whose surviving walls now carry a roof that is two-thirds glass and shelter a butterfly house.

PolandView entry →

Afrykarium, Wrocław Zoo (Afrykarium-Oceanarium), Wrocław, Lower Silesia

Afrykarium, Wrocław Zoo (Afrykarium-Oceanarium)

🇵🇱 Wrocław, Lower Silesia

Beneath a UV-permeable ETFE roof, a Congo jungle where manatees and free-flying birds share dense tropical vegetation.

PolandView entry →

New Palm House (Nowa Palmiarnia), Łazienki Park, Warsaw (Łazienki Park), Masovia

New Palm House (Nowa Palmiarnia), Łazienki Park

🇵🇱 Warsaw (Łazienki Park), Masovia

A fully glazed pavilion: the museum's citrus, laurel and olive trees in the upper part, an educational space opened in 2019 in the lower part.

PolandView entry →

Olivia Garden (Ogród Zimowy), Olivia Business Centre

🇵🇱 Gdańsk (Oliwa), Pomerania

A glazed pavilion with a sloping roof, in the patio of a business centre, holds almost 800 m² of tropical garden and about thirty large trees.

PolandView entry →

Oliwa Park Palm House (Palmiarnia Parku Oliwskiego), Gdańsk (Oliwa), Pomerania

Oliwa Park Palm House (Palmiarnia Parku Oliwskiego)

🇵🇱 Gdańsk (Oliwa), Pomerania

A slightly twisted 24-metre glass cylinder was built for a date palm about 180 years old that had outgrown the roof of the old orangery.

PolandView entry →

Orientarium, Łódź Zoo (Orientarium Zoo Łódź)

🇵🇱 Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship

South-East Asian jungle halls beneath ETFE cushions carried by a timber roof structure spanning up to 50 metres.

PolandView entry →

Sosnowiec Egzotarium (Ecological Education Centre), Sosnowiec, Silesian Voivodeship

Sosnowiec Egzotarium (Ecological Education Centre)

🇵🇱 Sosnowiec, Silesian Voivodeship

A glass hall more than 22 metres high, opened in 2023 on the site of the 1956 exotarium, halfway between botanic garden and zoo.

PolandView entry →

Architecture in Poland

Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology (Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha), Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology (Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japońskiej Manggha)

🇵🇱 Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Roof lines drawn from the undulations of the Vistula, facing Wawel Hill.

PolandView entry →