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Hidden gemMountains & peaks
Święta Katarzyna
For decades hikers posed by the cross on Łysica's western summit, convinced they were standing on the highest point of the Holy Cross Mountains (Góry Świętokrzyskie). Measurements in 2018, however, showed that a rocky ridge a few hundred m…
Hiking & tourist trails
Święta Katarzyna
The red-marked trail from Gołoszyce to Kuźniaki is the backbone of hiking in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains (Holy Cross Mountains): it crosses Łysica and Łysa Góra, the boulder fields known as gołoborza, Święty Krzyż and Święta Katarzyna, an…
Viewpoints
Święta Katarzyna
The quartzite sandstone blocks below the viewing gallery on Łysa Góra formed more than 500 million years ago and are among the oldest rocks exposed at the surface anywhere in Poland. The platform – officially the "Viewing Gallery on the St…
National parks
Święta Katarzyna
Świętokrzyski National Park (say "shvyen-toh-KSHIH-skee"; often translated as Holy Cross Mountains National Park) protects the highest ridge of Poland's oldest mountain range, near the city of Kielce. Its trademarks are the gołoborza (goh-…
Technical monuments
Święta Katarzyna
Long before industrial Silesia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth smelted its iron along the rivers of the northern Kielce region. The industrial heritage trail of Świętokrzyskie Province links the remains of this Old Polish Industrial Re…