Inowrocław is a valued health resort that uses brine water and one of the oldest cities in Kujawy. Its most important attraction is the Spa Park with graduation towers.
The stronghold in the place of today's Inowrocław already existed in the early Middle Ages. Its wealth was the salt deposits and brine waters from which it was evaporated. One of the oldest salt works in Poland was discovered here. At the end of the 12th century, the Romanesque Church of the Name of the Lord was built here, which is today the most valuable monument in the city.
The wealth of Inowrocław came mainly from the trade in salt mined until the 20th century in the local mine. Brines were also obtained, and in the 19th century they began to be used in medicine. In Inowrocław there are the Brine Park and the New Brine Park, around which the spa buildings are concentrated.
The biggest attractions of Inowrocław are the saline graduation towers, 9 meters high and almost 300 meters long, which makes them the second largest in Europe. In the park there is also a Pump Room - Palm House "Inowrocławianka", a small open-air museum Chata Kujawska, a Botanical Garden, flower carpets and a modern Terma Inowrocławska.
Although Inowrocław has a very long history, the buildings of the historical center are dominated by buildings from the 19th century. Only the local churches are older, and the tenement houses surrounding the Market Square in Inowrocław are mainly classicist and eclectic buildings.
One of the most outstanding writers of Young Poland, Jan Kasprowicz, was associated with the city. Exhibitions devoted to him can be seen in the Jan Kasprowicz Family Home. In turn, the Museum of Jan Kasprowicz has interesting collections of art, including works by Stanisław Wyspiański, Olga Boznańska and Jacek Malczewski, and an ethnographic collection showing the folk culture of Kujawy.
