Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
43 places
Oświęcim
Auschwitz I in Oświęcim is the oldest part of the complex in which Nazi Germany murdered more than 1.1 million people — mostly Jews, but also Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. The camp was set up in 1940 in former artillery barracks…
Poznań
Porta Posnania ICHOT is a heritage interpretation centre rather than a museum with a traditional collection. Its multimedia exhibition explores more than a thousand years of Ostrów Tumski — the island central to Poznań's beginnings and the…
gmina Łubowo
Ostrów Lednicki, the largest of the five islands on Lake Lednica, is one of the most important places in Polish history — the probable site of the Baptism of Poland. Under Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave it was a principal defensive and a…
gmina Łubowo
Lake Lednica in the Gniezno Lakeland is one of the most important places on the map of Poland's beginnings: on the largest of its five islands, **Ostrów Lednicki**, survive the remains of the oldest stone palace-and-church architecture in…
Żyrowa
The amphitheatre on St. Anne’s Mountain is a vast stone seating area in a former limestone quarry, next to the Monument to the Deed of the Insurgents. Together they form a distinctive Silesian memorial complex in a protected landscape. ##…
Warszawa
## Why visit The PAST Building at 39 Zielna Street is a distinctive pre-war Warsaw high-rise. It links the history of Polish telephony with the Warsaw Uprising, while its brick body and Polish Fighting Symbol stand out in central Warsaw. #…
Bydlin
The parish cemetery in Bydlin, on Zawadka Street, is an important memorial site connected with the Battle of Krzywopłoty in November 1914. The small necropolis preserves old gravestones, a Legionnaires’ quarter and war graves from the Firs…
Zabrze
The Jewish cemetery at 15 Cmentarna Street in Zabrze is a protected historic site and an important trace of Upper Silesia’s multicultural past. It was established in 1871; the oldest surviving gravestone dates from 18 September that year.…
Duszniki-Zdrój
## The spa theatre in the Spa Park Chopin Manor in Duszniki-Zdrój is a former spa meeting place, previously known as the Spa Theatre. The wooden building was erected in 1802–1805 to a design by the architect Geissler and is one of the olde…
gmina Pilica
St Peter’s Hill in Pilica is known as the cradle of the town. On the hill east of today’s centre, a historic wooden belfry survives from the church of St Peter and Paul. This small, quiet site combines the history of Old Pilica with views…
gmina Niegowa
The ohel in Lelów commemorates Dawid Biderman, known as the Lelower (1746–1814), a rabbi and founder of the Lelov Hasidic dynasty. It stands on Ogrodowa Street near the market, at a site connected with the former Jewish cemetery. It is an…
Stara Wieś
Gród Byczyna in Biskupice is a timber reconstruction of a medieval stronghold beside the Biskupice “Brzózki” reservoir, in Byczyna municipality. Built in 2006–2007 as a Polish-Czech Knights’ Training Centre, it uses a six-metre palisade, g…
Podzamcze
The stronghold on Birów Hill in Podzamcze is a timber reconstruction of an early-medieval fortified settlement, about 1.5 km from Ogrodzieniec Castle. Its ramparts, palisade and huts show what a stronghold from the age of Poland’s first Pi…
gmina Łubowo
Gród Pobiedziska is a family history park on the Piast Trail, on Fabryczna Street in Pobiedziska between Poznań and Gniezno. The timber stronghold evokes the beginnings of the Polish state, while its main attraction is a collection of full…
Międzyzdroje
Grodzisko Lubin — Viewing Terraces is a viewpoint and archaeological site on Wolin Island, about 6 km south of Międzyzdroje. The timber terraces stand on the cliff above the Szczecin Lagoon, over 50 metres above sea level. Telescopes revea…
Olkusz
Stary Olkusz Stronghold is an archaeological site on a small hill west of today’s Olkusz. A circular courtyard about 80 metres across is surrounded by a moat and two rings of earthen ramparts. The appeal lies in the terrain, church ruins a…
Sobótka
The Archaeological Reserve in Będkowice lies at the foot of Mount Ślęża, between Będkowice and Strzegomiany, a few kilometres from Sobótka. It preserves a Ślężanie settlement complex from the 8th–11th centuries: a stronghold, settlement re…
Wiślica
Wiślica Hillfort, also called the Hillfort in the Meadows, is an archaeological site about 400 metres south-east of Wiślica town centre. It stands among meadows near an old channel of the Nida River. The earthworks and slopes outline a for…
gmina Przygodzice
In the Zawodzie district, beside a former arm of the Prosna river, stands the **Kalisz Stronghold of the Piasts** — an archaeological reserve opened in **2007** on the site of an early-medieval fortress whose beginnings reach back to the *…
Kościerzyna
A little south of Leśno in the Bytów municipality, below Lake Leśno Dolne, one of the most important archaeological sites of Pomerania hides among the forests — a barrow cemetery of the **Goths** accompanied by stone circles. An educationa…
Kościerzyna
In a pine forest by Lake Długie, 5 km from Sulęczyno in Kashubia, a burial ground of the **Goths and Gepids** from about two thousand years ago has survived — probably established in the **70s AD**, with the people living in Pomerania for…
Cieszyn
**Cieszyn’s Jewish cemeteries** on Hażlaska Street form an unusual pair of necropolises facing one another. The old cemetery was established in 1647, while the new one opened in 1907 when the original burial ground could no longer serve th…
Zwierzyniec
**The Jewish Cemetery in Józefów Biłgorajski** lies on Kamienna Street, on a hillside beside a quarry. It was probably founded around 1725, soon after Józefów was chartered, and is one of the most valuable sites of Jewish heritage in the L…
Olkusz
**The Jewish cemetery in Krzykawka** lies on the edge of the Bolesław municipality, near Sławków and the E94 road. It was formally established at the beginning of the 20th century by the Jewish communities of Sławków and Strzemieszyce. It…