The City Tourist Route is a 7-km-long loop which connects 42 sites – the most interesting monuments and places worthseeing.
The idea behind the route was to commemorate the 750th anniversary of granting town privileges to Szczecin. The route is marked by an easily found red dotted line painted on the pavement, and thus the common name of the trail is the “Red Route”.
Numbers in circles act as supplementary signs corresponding to each site on the route. Near to each number an information board with a detailed description of the object is either suspended on the wall of the building or standing alone. A pocket guidebook published in various languages, including a map of the route, can be purchased at the tourist information centres, the local seat of Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society and in bookstores. The route begins and ends in front of the Szczecin Central Railway Station.
The following sites are on the City Tourist Route (the numbers correspond to the numbering along the route):
1. The Central Railway Station
2. Post Office No.2
3. Snail Gate Barracks
4. Fragment Of City Walls
5. Gothic Church of St. John the Evangelist
6. Long Bridge
7. Old Town Hall
8. Late-Gothic Loitz House
9. Pomeranian Dukes' Castle
10. Ducal Stable and Manege
11. Maiden Tower or Seven Coats Tower
12. Castle Route
13. Maritime Academy
14. National Museum
15. Voivode's Office
16. Adam Mickiewicz Monument
17. PAZIM Complex
18. The Royal Gate
19. St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s Church, Dialogue Centre "Upheavals", Szczecin Philharmonic, Voivodeship Headquarters of Police
20. Professors' Houses
21. St. Mary's Gymnasium
22. Birthplace of the Empress Catherine II of Russia
23. St. James Arch Cathedral
24. Flora Statue
25. Eagle Fountain
26. Palace under the Globe
27. Velthusen's Palace
28. Diets' Palace (Nationalmuseum)
29. Art Gallery of the National Museum and 13 Muses' Club
30. Commemorative Plaque
31. Former seat of the Pomeranian Landowners' Bank
32. Former seat of the Prussian Royal Post
33. St. John Baptist's Church
34. Children's Hospital
35. Gen. Władysław Anders Park
36. Church of the Holliest Heart of Jesus Christ
37. St. Adalbert's Garrison Church
38. Kornel Ujejski Monument
39. Harbour Gate
40. Red Town Hall (New Town Hall)
41. Fountain with the Anchor
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