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In the night before Christmas Eve 1927, the Habsburgs' freshly renovated hunting lodge in Wisła, intended as a residence for the President of Poland, burned down in unexplained circumstances. In its place Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz designed a mo…
Nature
Wisła
Around 25 waterfalls and rock steps, the tallest of them 5 metres high – these are the Rodło Cascades, the highest waterfalls in the Silesian Beskids, tucked away in the valley of the Biała Wisełka stream in Wisła Czarne. The stream is one…
Waterfalls
Wisła
The Rodło Cascades (Kaskady Rodła, roughly "kas-KAH-dee ROD-wah") are a chain of about 25 natural waterfalls and rock steps in the Biała Wisełka valley above the mountain resort of Wisła, in southern Poland's Silesian Beskids. The two bigg…
Viewpoints
Wisła
On the slope of Kobyla, a few metres from a hiking trail, the hillside suddenly drops away and a rocky pulpit rises up with jagged, partly overhanging walls. Krzakoska Rock – also known as the Kobyla Rocks – is the best-known climbing crag…
Viewpoints
Wisła
Under a hundred-year-old wild cherry tree on the Cieńków ridge, one simple rule applies: anyone who sincerely embraces and kisses their loved one here will be happy in love. This "magic tree" reached the final of Poland's Tree of the Year…
Old towns & squares
Wisła
Wisła has no classic medieval market square. Its heart is Bogumił Hoff Square (plac Bogumiła Hoffa), shaped in the 1930s when this Beskid village was turning into a fashionable resort. The square is named after the man who "discovered" Wis…
Viewpoints
Wisła
The Barania Góra observation tower ("ba-RAH-nya GOO-ra") is a 15-meter steel lookout on the summit of the second-highest peak in Poland's Silesian Beskids. From its deck, on a clear day, you can see the High Tatras, Babia Góra and ranges i…
Silesian
Wisła
The Vistula Cycle Route (Wiślana Trasa Rowerowa) is meant to link the Beskid Mountains with the Baltic: it starts at Wisła Uzdrowisko railway station and is ultimately to end on Sobieszewo Island in Gdańsk. The planned length is around 1,2…
Castles
Wisła
The Presidential Castle in Wisła ("VEES-wah") is a modernist mountain residence built in 1929–1931 as a gift from the people of Silesia to Polish President Ignacy Mościcki. Its towers deliberately echo a medieval castle, while the interior…