📜 From a princely fishing village to a Baltic resort
For centuries the Kłodzko Valley was a strategic borderland between Silesia and Bohemia. It was dominated by the mighty defensive system of the Kłodzko Fortress, while at the foot of the mountains towns such as Kłodzko and Bystrzyca Kłodzka developed, with their preserved medieval urban layouts.
In the 19th century, with the development of shipping and the need to secure the dangerous stretch of coast, a lighthouse was erected here — it was put into operation in 1838. It instantly became the symbol of the village and still serves seafarers to this day. After World War II Kotlina Kłodzka returned within the borders of Poland and from the 1960s and 1970s onwards it changed shape: in place of fishermen's huts grew guesthouses, holiday cottages and the first resorts, and the sandy beach, forests and proximity of the Baltic attracted family after family.
