Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
37 places
Warszawa
**On 27 May 1727** August II the Strong opened the garden by his palace to the people of Warsaw, making it the **first public park in Poland**. The baroque, French-style layout was designed by the Wettin court architects, including Matthäu…
Wrocław
Wrocław’s Japanese Garden was created for the 1913 World Exhibition and still works through composition: water, stone, plants, bridges and the rhythm of its paths. It is not a park for a long hike, but a place for a slow, attentive walk. #…
Łódź
Botanical garden in Łódź in Łódź is an interesting stop connected with the area’s history, culture or landscape. Include it in a sightseeing plan and combine it with other nearby places. Check current opening hours and access details befor…
Rudy
The Cistercian Landscape Compositions of Rudy Wielkie Landscape Park combines forests, rivers, ponds and meadows with the heritage of a former Cistercian abbey. It covers about 493.87 km² in the Racibórz Basin and the northern part of the…
Warszawa
Polish Academy of Sciences Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin in Warszawa is an interesting stop connected with the area’s history, culture or landscape. Include it in a sightseeing plan and combine it with other nearby…
Rudy
Papal Oaks Alley in Rudy lies in the historic park of the former Cistercian Palace-Monastery Complex on Cysterska Street. This small outdoor stop sits beside the centuries-old Cysters Oak; its trees commemorate popes and Church figures. Th…
Chorzów
## Bażantarnia in Siemianowice Śląskie Bażantarnia is an approximately 40-hectare forest complex in the Bańgów district — the largest woodland area in Siemianowice Śląskie and a protected ecological site valued for recreation. Oaks dominat…
Warszawa
In winter the Baroque residence of Jan III Sobieski changes its face: the Royal Garden of Light, an exhibition of illuminated installations set to music, spreads along the alleys of the Wilanów Palace. In **2017** it was named the Best Tou…
Janowiec
A few kilometres from Kazimierz Dolny, in the village of Trzcianki near Janowiec, runs the first family theme park in Poland. Opened on **23 May 2014**, Magiczne Ogrody covers **18 hectares** of sculpted terrain planted with about **one mi…
gmina Żary
On Botaniczna Street 50A in Zielona Góra runs a botanical garden whose history goes back to a pre-war garden, restored in **2007** and run by the University of Zielona Góra. Across more than **2 hectares** grow plants labelled with their n…
Poznań
The Botanical Garden of Adam Mickiewicz University occupies the Ogrody district of Poznań at Dąbrowskiego Street 165. Its seed was the School Botanical Garden of **1922–1925**, initiated by Professor Rudolf Boettner; it was solemnly opened…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
On the edge of Pisarzowice, a village between Kęty and Bielsko-Biała, runs a Japanese garden established in the early 21st century alongside Antoni Pudełko's plant nursery — after the owners' journey to Japan. Admission is **free**, a rare…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On Zimowa Street 24 in the spa town of Goczałkowice-Zdrój operate the Kapias Gardens — display gardens created **over a dozen years ago** from bare ground, out of the plant passion of the owners of a local horticultural business. The layou…
Gliwice
At 6 Fredry Street, in the Fryderyk Chopin Park in central Gliwice, runs the Municipal Palm House — a glazed botanical garden with over **5,500 plants** and aquariums. The first greenhouses appeared here as early as **1880** as a private o…
Wałbrzych
On the edge of Wałbrzych's Lubiechów district, at 158 Wrocławska Street and barely **1.8 km from Książ Castle**, stands one of the oldest palm houses in Poland. It was built in **1911–1913** on the orders of Henry XV von Pless as the **win…
Świdnica
Central Park stretches slightly south of the Old Town of Świdnica, within the outline of Śląska, Pionierów, Lipowa streets and Plac Ludowy. After the thorough revitalization carried out in recent years it is the most polished green space o…
Chorzów
Górnik Park in Michałkowice, a district on the north-western outskirts of Siemianowice Śląskie, is a former manor park surrounding the residence of the local landowners. The story begins with the Mieroszewski family, who raised the first m…
Sromowce Niżne
Park Górny, officially bearing the name of Adam Count Stadnicki, is the oldest spa park of Szczawnica and the heart of the health resort at the same time. Its arrangement was begun in **1824** by Jan Kutscher, and successive owners of the…
Chrzanów
Park Gródek, officially the Gródek Arboretum, covers **58.54 hectares** of former dolomite excavations, worked from around **1880 until 1990** for the needs of the old Szczakowa Cement Plant. After reclamation the quarry turned into one of…
Katowice
Tadeusz Kościuszko Park is the largest park of Katowice: it covers **72 hectares** between Kościuszki street, Piękna street and Górnośląska avenue, in the district of Brynów eastern part-Osiedle Zgrzebnioka. Its beginnings reach back to **…
Będzin
In the eastern part of Sosnowiec, in the Kazimierz Górniczy district between Jasieńskiego and Armii Krajowej streets, lies **Kuroń Park**, formerly known as the Leśna centre. Its alleys and footbridges were built decades ago by miners of t…
Legnica
**Municipal Park** is the oldest and largest park of Legnica — **58 hectares** of greenery in the central part of the city, in the Old Town and Ochota areas. Its boundaries are marked by, among others, Wilson Square, Orła Białego avenue, Z…
Białowieża
At the end of the 19th century, a park in the English style was laid out around the hunting residence of the Russian tsars in Białowieża. Today the Palace Park is a designated enclave of the Białowieża National Park and a natural introduct…
Tarnowskie Góry
Between Repty and Stare Tarnowice, in the northern part of Tarnowskie Góry, stretches Repecki Park — the former grounds of the neorenaissance residence of the **Henckel von Donnersmarck** family, for whom these lands were a hunting retreat…