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

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
Goczałkowice Reservoir is best understood not as an ordinary recreational lake, but as a large water-supply reservoir with an important wildlife role. It provides water for the Silesian region while also creating habitats for birds. ## Wil…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
**The Evangelical Church in Pszczyna** stands on the market square, a few steps from the gate leading to the castle. The present Neo-Baroque building followed the fire that destroyed its predecessor in 1905 and was rebuilt in 1905–1906. To…

**St George’s Church in Goczałkowice-Zdrój** is an important landmark of the spa town and a reminder of a history that predates the development of the resort. The masonry church stands on Główna Street, close to the centre and the road tow…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On St Anne's Street in Goczałkowice-Zdrój — a leisure village in Upper Silesia, in Pszczyna County — stands the **brick church of St Anne** from **1883**. It was most likely erected on the site of an earlier wooden temple, and its modest b…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On the market square of Pszczyna, right next to the castle where she lived for years, a bronze Princess Daisy has sat down on a bench. The monument to Mary Theresa Olivia Hochberg von Pless was unveiled in **May 2009**; it is the work of P…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In an 18th-century town house at **26 Piastowska Street**, about 200 metres from the Pszczyna market square, operates the **Wojciech Korfanty Silesian Press Museum** — the only institution in Poland where visitors can print a sheet themsel…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On Zimowa Street 24 in the spa town of Goczałkowice-Zdrój operate the Kapias Gardens — display gardens created **over a dozen years ago** from bare ground, out of the plant passion of the owners of a local horticultural business. The layou…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
Baranowice Palace at 97 Zamkowa Street in Żory is a restored residence in Upper Silesia whose history reaches back to the **17th century**. It owes its present shape to a 19th-century rebuild by **Emil von Durant**, and after years of deca…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On the main road leading to Bielsko-Biala, in the Bazaniec district, stands a Rococo residence surrounded by a historic park. The Kotulinski Palace on Zamkowa street is one of the more valuable relics of the former Cieszyn Silesia; today i…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
Goczałkowice-Zdrój is one of the few villages in Poland with full spa status, and its spa park, laid out at the beginning of the 20th century, forms the green axis of the village by the Goczałkowice Reservoir. Healing traditions go back to…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A spacious square of the medieval urban layout, ringed by carefully restored town houses from the **18th and 19th centuries**. The northern frontage holds the Neo-Renaissance town hall — the seat of the town authorities for three centuries…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In the Manor Park, an extension of the Pszczyna castle park, stand more than a dozen wooden buildings forming the Pszczyna Village Homestead. Created in **1975** on almost two hectares, the open-air museum gathers the most valuable timber…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A few steps from the Pszczyna castle, on the park side, stands a complex of buildings where the Hochbergs kept their horses and carriages. The Princely Stables on Basztowa Street were built in the second half of the 19th century and count…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
**1,060 kilometres** of routes and **93 historic wooden landmarks** make up the Silesian section of the Wooden Architecture Trail, created through the cooperation of the Silesia, Małopolska and Subcarpathian voivodeships. Churches, chapels…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A culinary route run by the Silesian Tourist Organisation since **2012**, promoting the food heritage of the Silesian voivodeship. In **2013** it received the Polish Tourist Organisation Certificate as the best Polish tourism product. **Tw…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A few hundred metres from the Pszczyna market square and castle, on the Wild Promenade of the Pszczyna Historic Park, operates the Bison Show Farm — a place where the history of saving Europe’s largest land mammal can be observed from a fe…

Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In Jankowice near Pszczyna, in the middle of the Pszczyna forests, the Bison Breeding and Forest Education Centre runs a demonstration enclosure open free of charge. On **10 hectares** — a pasture at the front and forest at the back — live…