Hotel Victoria

Lublin (160 km to Warsaw, 270 km to Cracow, 220 km to Lvov), administrative centre of the voivodship and the capital of the Lublin region , and home to about 400 thousand inhabitants, is the biggest town in Eastern Poland. The location of the town atop loessial rolling hills of the Lublin Upland in the valley of the Bystrzyca and its tributaries is one of its assets. During the 5th and 7th centuries the inhabitants of Lublin grew in numbers, and by 1317 Lublin was granted municipal status. In 1474 Lublin became the capital of the voivodship, a role it has continuously played to this day.