Where East Met West at History's Crossroads
Lublin is Poland's gateway to the east — a city where Ruthenian painters decorated Catholic chapels, where the largest pre-war Jewish community outside Warsaw thrived, and where the 1569 Union that forged the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was signed in a hilltop castle. With over 110 monuments packed into a single square kilometre of Gothic lanes and Renaissance townhouses, Lublin's Old Town is one of Poland's best-preserved medieval centres.
"Niech żyje Unia!" — the cry that echoed from Lublin Castle on 1 July 1569, as Poland and Lithuania became one Commonwealth stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea.