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

gmina Żary
Bismarck tower in Żary in gmina Żary 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 b…

gmina Żary
**The Co-Cathedral of St Hedwig of Silesia** at 14 Mickiewicza Street is the oldest surviving monument in Zielona Góra. Founded by the dukes of Głogów in the 13th century, the church combines a Gothic hall with later alterations and furnis…

gmina Żary
**The Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Zielona Góra** is a former Lutheran house of prayer built in 1746–1748 and now an active Catholic church. Its timber-and-masonry construction, cross-shaped plan and history linked with the rebuild…

gmina Żary
Fara Żarska, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is one of the most important historic landmarks in Żary. The church stands at pl. Kard. Stefana Wyszyńskiego 4 in the historic centre, a few minutes’ walk from the market square. Its hi…

gmina Żary
On the edge of the Princely Park in Żagań, by a bend of the Bóbr river, stands the neo-Gothic Church of the Holy Cross — once the mausoleum of the Dukes of Żagań. The story reaches back to the 13th century, when a chapel of St. Lawrence st…

gmina Żary
On the market square of Żary, by the fountain and the town hall, sits a Baroque composer with a violin in hand. The bench of **Georg Philipp Telemann** was erected here in **2010**, the year of the celebrations of Żary's **750th anniversar…

gmina Żary
The Lubusz Land Museum is the principal museum of Zielona Góra and one of the older cultural institutions in the region, operating since **1922**. It occupies a former county office building raised in **1889** on Niepodległości Avenue, rig…

gmina Żary
On Botaniczna Street 50A in Zielona Góra runs a botanical garden whose history goes back to a pre-war garden, restored in **2007** and run by the University of Zielona Góra. Across more than **2 hectares** grow plants labelled with their n…

gmina Żary
By the Bobr river, in the extensive Zagan park, rises one of the most magnificent surviving Baroque buildings in Poland. The Ducal Palace on Szprotawska street stands on the site of a medieval Piast castle, and its construction is tied to…

gmina Żary
The Gothic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary at Klasztorny Square 2 in Żagań is the heart of the former Augustinian complex: next to it stand the monastery of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, the monastic granary and the ko…

gmina Żary
The market square in Żary, the largest town of the Polish Lusatia, took shape already in the Middle Ages. Its heart is the town hall, whose brick core reaches back to the 14th century and kept growing until the 19th century. It is a square…

gmina Żary
The market square in Zielona Góra retains the medieval layout of the old town, set out as a 60 × 160 m rectangle from which six streets once radiated. Trade gave the square's sections their names: meat, flour, flax and grain. Today it is t…

gmina Żary
On Gołębie Wzgórze, in the middle of the Zielony Las forest in Żary, stands the 19th-century Promnitza tower of stone and brick, also called the red, brick or hunting tower. Its name commemorates the Promnitz family, former lords of Żary,…

gmina Żary
In September, Zielona Góra surrenders to grapes: for **9 days** the city hosts Winobranie, the largest wine festival in Poland and the most important cultural event of the region. Bachus, the King of Winobranie, rules the city, while stree…

gmina Żary
A few steps from the Żary market square stands the oldest witness to the town's past: the castle and palace complex with the Gothic tower that greets everyone entering the centre. The first knightly seat was raised here in the **13th centu…

gmina Żary
At the southern edge of Żary, off Komuny Paryskiej Street, you enter a hilly complex where valleys, ravines, small lakes and bogs form a landscape rare within the limits of Polish towns. Zielony Las, lying in the Crown of the Żary Hills, s…