Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Lakes
Solina
Whole villages lie beneath the surface of Lake Solina — the historic village of Solina, Teleśnica Sanna, Horodek, Sokole, Chrewt and much of Wołkowyja disappeared under water when the reservoir began to fill in 1968. Today it is Poland's l…
Churches & monasteries
Leżajsk
The Basilica of the Annunciation in Leżajsk (say "LEH-zhysk") is the church of a fortified Bernardine (Franciscan) monastery in southeastern Poland and one of the region's most important Marian shrines. Built in the early 17th century on t…
Churches & monasteries
Bystre
Three metal-clad domes with false lanterns rise above a Bieszczady meadow, well away from the main roads. The church of St Michael the Archangel in Bystre, in the Czarna district of the Bieszczady Mountains, was built in 1901–1902 and fell…
Churches & monasteries
Sanok
In Dobra (formerly Dobra Szlachecka) on the San River, in the Sanok municipality, a walled complex of two sacred buildings survives: a wooden tserkva from 1879 and an older gate tserkva in a tower. Poland's National Heritage Board describe…
Churches & monasteries
Komańcza
On the evening of 13 September 2006 one of the most remarkable wooden churches of the Carpathians burnt down in Komańcza, together with its iconostasis of 1832. Only the bell tower survived. The next day the Orthodox Archbishop of Przemyśl…
Monuments & mounds
Turzańsk
Silent Memorial is an open-air gallery of portraits scattered across villages and painted directly onto the boards of old barns and sheds. Sanok-born artist Arkadiusz Andrejkow started the project in 2017 in the Subcarpathian region, and t…
Churches & monasteries
Krasiczyn
Kalwaria Pacławska (roughly "kahl-VAR-yah pahts-WAHF-skah") is a Franciscan pilgrimage sanctuary on a forested hill about 465 m (1,525 ft) above the Wiar River valley in southeastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border. Founded in 1665,…
Nature
Lesko
As early as 1896 the Lesko town council resolved that this rock should be a "natural memorial" – which makes the Lesko Stone one of the earliest protected geological monuments in the former Austria-Hungary and in today's Poland. The massiv…
Monuments & mounds
Przemyśl
On Zniesienie hill, which rises above Przemyśl to the south, stands a man-made mound that legend says holds the grave of a Tatar khan. Historians date it to the late 9th century and link it with the presence of the Magyars, and from its to…
Churches & monasteries
Łańcut
Beneath its neo-Gothic dress from around 1900, Łańcut's parish church hides more than six centuries of history: a wooden church of St Barbara from the town's founding, eighty years as a Protestant meeting house, a Baroque rebuilding design…
Nature
Czarnorzeki
On a wooded ridge between Krosno and Rzeszów, sandstone pillars rise out of the forest, in places more than 20 metres high. Local legend says they are enchanted spinners – girls turned to stone for spinning flax on a holy day ("prządki" me…
Nature
Dubiecko
About 2.5 km from Dubiecko, among the fields and woods of the foothills, lies a raised bog where the insect-eating round-leaved sundew grows and rare garganeys can be seen. The Broduszurki reserve has protected it since 1996, and a nature…
Old towns & squares
Pruchnik
Once every house on the market square in Pruchnik had an arcade, so you could walk all the way around without leaving the shelter of a roof. Around 40 wooden buildings still stand around the square and along the lanes that lead off it, mos…
Old towns & squares
Przemyśl
Przemyśl Market Square (Rynek, say "RIH-nek"; the town is "PSHEH-mishl") is the heart of the old town of Przemyśl in southeastern Poland and one of the most unusual town squares in the country. Instead of a flat plaza, it slopes noticeably…
Old towns & squares
Rzeszów
The Market Square (Rynek) in Rzeszów (say "ZHEH-shoof") is the heart of the capital of Poland's southeastern Podkarpackie region – a cobbled square lined with pastel townhouses, with an ornate town hall in one corner, a statue of Tadeusz K…
Viewpoints
Żubracze
The tower stands right next to the tarmac, so you can climb it straight from your car – no hike and no ticket needed. This wooden structure on Przysłup Pass (749 m above sea level) is named after a village that no longer exists: Szczerbanó…