Kłodzko

A town in Lower Silesia under a fortress that Prussia rebuilt in the 18th century, with kilometres of underground galleries, reached from Wrocław Główny by direct train.

Kłodzko Fortress seen from above in early spring: grass-covered ramparts and pale stone walls stepping up the hill, red-roofed buildings of the town at their foot on the right, bare trees and a path in the foreground, and wooded hills on the horizon.

Jacek Halicki Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0

What it is

Kłodzko is a town in Lower Silesia. Its fortress, on the hill in the middle of the town, is what a visitor goes for.

The fortress

After Prussia took Kłodzko from Austria in 1742, it rebuilt the fortress to designs by Gerhard Cornelius de Wallrave. Under it runs a system of counter-mine galleries about 7 km long, dug to find and stop an enemy’s tunnels; visitors see part of them on a tour. The upper route tells the fortress’s history and looks out over the town.

The town also has an underground route of its own, through old cellars under the old town.

Getting there from Wrocław

Koleje Dolnośląskie (KD) runs direct trains from Wrocław Główny to Kłodzko, and PKP Intercity’s Baltic Express to Prague stops at Kłodzko Miasto. More on regional trains is on the trains page.

Checked 25 October 2026 Lines, stops and times change with every timetable, so this page prints none. Check the operators’ timetables for the day you go, and look at the last connection back before you set out. The fortress’s routes and tickets are on its own page below.

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