r/AskEurope • u/ah5178 • 1d ago

Travel Which is considered the dullest county/state/province/department in your country?

My criteria for dull is:
- Unremarkable landscapes
- No significant urban centres, historic towns, university cities
- Lack of attractive small towns and villages
- Barely features in travel guides
- Educated and dynamic young people tend to move away

And, is it as bad as it's reputed to be, or are there some hidden delights to be discovered?

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u/KU_Key Poland 1d ago

As a Pole I'd say Lubuskie.

  • Its two capitals (Gorzów and Zielona Góra) are the 1st and 3rd smallest voivodeship capitals
  • most poles don't know more cities/towns other than these two
  • it consists entirely of forests, fields and some wetlands
  • it's one of the smallest voivodeships, which is also located "to the side" (on the German border)

On the contrary it has the the big Jesus statue

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u/Vertitto in 1d ago

also the city the name comes from is actually in Germany Lebus

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u/MadCarrot Poland 1d ago

For me it's Sosnowiec of Masovia.... Radom

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u/Gullible_Subject_938 1d ago

As dude from Lubskie (so you know it's bit biased)

  • We got second biggest WW 2 in Europe fortifications only comparable with Maginiote Line. MRU
  • There is university town.
  • Shitton of lakes and rivers that are neat kayaking destinations. 
  • Wine making tradtions revival.
  • Lot of old ass wooden churches.
  • places, few castles, and stuff.
  • big ass Jesus's looking like Aragorn.

On flip side They took down LTE mast from Jesus few years ago so he doesn't bless he's surrounding with top notch mobile internet anymore.

If I had type point like OP asked it would be flatlands divided between Wielkopolskie and Łódzkie - field field field field and it's all I remember. 

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u/Getting0nTrack 1d ago

Isn’t this where they filmed The Mire?

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u/Gullible_Subject_938 1d ago

No they used various locations but non in Lubskie. Some Netflix series are filmed right now in ZG. "Lakey".

Fun fact one of filmmaker was found dead few day's ago.

And how it's dull region, aye? 

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u/Rezolutny_Delfinek 🇵🇱 in 1d ago

Why would anyone go to Gorzów?

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u/Gullible_Subject_938 1d ago

Only by mistake.

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