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Where to Stay in Stargard, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Stargard stands on the Ina in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, ringed by brick walls whose gates and towers still carry their medieval names.
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Inside the walls or beside the water: those are the two real answers in Stargard, and the walk between them takes less time than deciding does. The collegiate quarter comes first. A bed near St. Mary's Church, Stargard puts the Plebania Kolegiaty NMP w Stargardzie, the Guardhouse of Stargard and the Arsenal in Stargard within a couple of streets, together with the Protzen House in Stargard and the Rohledera House on the merchant frontages.
Mornings there belong to walkers. Brama Młyńska in Stargard makes the case for the waterside, since the gate straddles the Ina and the Little Mill in Stargard stands close by, which gives the river a short circuit of its own away from the churches. Fields begin past the gate.
Rooms on the Pyrzycka Gate in Stargard side face the road out towards Klępino and Strachocin, where the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Klępino and the Kościół św. Faustyny Kowalskiej w Strachocinie sit among fields rather than brick. Lodging out that way is thinner still.
Anyone with a second day can spend it on the Church of St. John in Stargard, the Holy Spirit church in Stargard, the Church of the Transfiguration in Stargard and the Orthodox church in Stargard, all of them reachable on foot from either side of the old town.
About Stargard
Stargard kept its ring of walls.
What is Stargard known for?
Brama Młyńska in Stargard still carries the defences across the Ina, and the line running from the White Head Tower in Stargard round by the Ice Tower in Stargard to the Pyrzycka Gate in Stargard survives more completely here than in most towns of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Above it stands the brick bulk of St. Mary's Church, Stargard. The Museum in Stargard Szczeciński holds the rest of the record.
What are the main landmarks in Stargard?
Four towers survive along the circuit: the White Head Tower in Stargard, the Ice Tower in Stargard, the Red Sea Tower in Stargard and the Prisoners Tower in Stargard, each named for the trade or the use that once explained it. Brama Młyńska in Stargard and the Pyrzycka Gate in Stargard are the surviving gates. Brick churches carry the skyline.
The Arsenal in Stargard, the Guardhouse of Stargard and the Panorama Palace in Stargard cover the civic and military stock, while the Protzen House in Stargard and the Rohledera House stand for the merchant houses of the old market frontage.
What is the history of Stargard?
No charter year is on record, but the fabric dates the town well enough on its own. Defence came first, and the ring of towers - the White Head Tower in Stargard, the Red Sea Tower in Stargard, the Prisoners Tower in Stargard and the Ice Tower in Stargard - together with Brama Młyńska in Stargard and the Pyrzycka Gate in Stargard fixed the shape that the streets still follow. The Ina gave the reason for it.
A mill gate over a working river marks a town that lived off milling and river traffic, and the Little Mill in Stargard is the surviving trace of that arrangement. St. Mary's Church, Stargard was the collegiate church, with the Plebania Kolegiaty NMP w Stargardzie beside it. Other congregations left their own buildings.
Here the Church of St. John in Stargard, the Holy Spirit church in Stargard and the Church of the Transfiguration in Stargard span the parishes, while the Orthodox church in Stargard and the Cmentarz żydowski w Stargardzie Szczecińskim record communities outside the Catholic and Protestant mainstream. Names shifted with the borders. The city was long recorded as Stargard Szczeciński, a form that survives in the titles of the Museum in Stargard Szczeciński and the Pomnik Germanii w Stargardzie Szczecińskim, and the Arsenal in Stargard, the Guardhouse of Stargard and the Panorama Palace in Stargard belong to the garrison and administrative periods that followed the medieval one.
Stargard County keeps the town as its seat.
Where is Stargard?
The Ina runs through the middle of it. Some 48 square kilometres of level West Pomeranian ground fall inside the city limits, enough to hold the walled core, the newer housing around it and the farmland reaching out to Klępino and Strachocin. Szczecin lies within reach across that plain, and Stargard counts as the second city of the Szczecin agglomeration as well as the seat of Stargard County, which keeps a good deal of traffic moving between the two. Flat country surrounds the town.
What is the climate of Stargard?
The Ina lowland gives the weather nothing to break against, so the seasons arrive across open country and the temperate northern year swings between a long cool half and a warm one without much local shelter. Daylight moves a long way. Anyone circling the walls from the White Head Tower in Stargard to Brama Młyńska in Stargard will find the shoulder months kindest for it.
Winter afternoons close early.
How do you get to Stargard?
Szczecin sends most of the traffic. As the second city of the Szczecin agglomeration and the seat of Stargard County, Stargard sits on the roads that link Szczecin with the country beyond the Ina, and the same routes serve the villages of Klępino and Strachocin. Arrivals land at the edge.
The walled core beyond it is small enough that the Pyrzycka Gate in Stargard, St. Mary's Church, Stargard and the Museum in Stargard Szczeciński come within one walk.
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Updated August 2026