Citadel Park (Cytadela)
Park Cytadela
A large city park on the site of a Prussian fortress, with a military museum, a soldiers’ cemetery and Magdalena Abakanowicz’s sculpture group.
Citadel Park occupies the site of the 19th-century Prussian fortress Fort Winiary. Fierce fighting took place here during the 1945 Battle of Poznań, and after the war it became a park of about 100 hectares. The park preserves ramparts, gun batteries and a prisoner-of-war cemetery. It houses the Greater Poland Military Museum and the Arms Museum, as well as sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz’s 112 headless cast-iron figures, “The Unaccepted,” which are very striking. Entry is free. It is good for a stroll and lies about 2 km from the Old Town.
Opening hours
Open all day; museum closed Mondays
Nearby sights
- Royal Castle, Poznań
- Poznań Town Hall & Billy Goats
- Poznań Croissant Museum
- Old Market Square
- National Museum in Poznań
- Poznań Fara (Parish Church of St Stanislaus)
- Ostrów Tumski & Poznań Cathedral
- Porta Posnania (ICHOT)