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

gmina Pilica
Smoleń Castle in gmina Pilica 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 before v…

gmina Pilica
The Wodąca Valley lies between Smoleń and Domaniewice, on the border of Lesser Poland and Silesia. It is about 3 km long and is a dry karst valley: no permanent stream flows through it. Limestone outcrops, caves and traces of early settlem…

gmina Pilica
St Peter’s Hill in Pilica is known as the cradle of the town. On the hill east of today’s centre, a historic wooden belfry survives from the church of St Peter and Paul. This small, quiet site combines the history of Old Pilica with views…

gmina Pilica
Above the market square of Pilica rises the church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist — a temple with royal connections. It was raised thanks to **Jadwiga Melsztyńska**, and after her death the care of the foundation was t…

gmina Pilica
## Key information The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wolbrom, locally called the Marian or Hospital Church, stands at the corner of Mariacka and Tadeusza Kościuszki streets. This early Baroque larch-wood…

gmina Pilica
The palace in Pilica, also called the castle, is one of the most unusual residences of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland: a palazzo in fortezza, an Italian villa built into a bastion fortress. The late-Renaissance residence was begun shortly b…

gmina Pilica
A square laid out in the **14th century** when the town was chartered, preserving to this day a typical medieval spatial layout — the streets radiate from the corners of the square, and a Gothic parish church stands by one of them. Its chi…

gmina Pilica
North of the Pilica market square, in the Biskupice district, stands a monastic complex that has shaped the town's image for over **280 years**. The baroque, single-storey, quadrilateral Franciscan monastery with the church of the Most Hol…

gmina Pilica
A few minutes' walk from the market square in Pilica, in the central part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, spreads the Pilica reservoir — a small body of water that operates in summer as a swimming area guarded by WOPR lifeguards, and in…

gmina Pilica
Above the treetops of the Wodąca Valley rise the white walls of the Zegarowe Skały — one of the most distinctive groups of limestone rocks in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The rocks lie between Smoleń and Złożeniec in the Pilica commune,…