Tripto Guide
6 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.

Czerna
Hidden among wooded hills on the edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland lies Czerna, a Discalced Carmelite monastery founded in 1629 by Agnieszka Firlejowa née Tęczyński, widow of the Kraków voivode. The church went up between 1631 and 1640…

Czerna
Devil’s Bridge in Czerna is the ruin of a 17th-century hermit bridge in the Eliaszówka Valley, near the Discalced Carmelite monastery. The stone structure resembles a Roman aqueduct: it was about 120 m long, 9.5 m wide and 18 m high, suppo…

Czerna
The Eliaszówka Valley lies between Czerna and Paczółtowice, near Krzeszowice in the Kraków–Częstochowa Upland. Its most wooded section is protected as a nature reserve created in 1989 and lies within the Kraków Valleys Landscape Park. The…
Czerna
On Grunwaldzka Street in Krzeszowice, between Kraków and Katowice, rises the neo-Gothic church of St. Martin — designed by **Karl Friedrich Schinkel**, the celebrated architect of Berlin. The founder was **Artur Potocki**, heir of Krzeszow…

Czerna
In the Eliaszówka Valley, near Krzeszowice in the Lesser Poland commune of Krzeszowice, hides a baroque hermitage — the monastic retreat of the Discalced Carmelites. The foundation of **1629** we owe to Agnieszka Firlej née Tęczyńska, buri…

Czerna
In Nawojowa Góra near Krzeszowice, by national road 79, stands a manor complex known by its old name "Prochownia": a brick manor house, a gardener's cottage, a stable with a carriage house, and a 19th-century landscape park surrounding the…