Things to do in Jerzmanowice
Jerzmanowice is a village scattered among limestone outcrops on the edge of the Kraków Valleys: rock clusters, caves and field paths. An ideal base for relaxed family walks in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland.
Map of attractions in Jerzmanowice
All 7 places on one map: see what is close together and plan your route.
All attractions (7)
Caves
Nietoperzowa Cave
Jerzmanowice
Nietoperzowa Cave (pronounced "nyeh-toh-peh-ZHOH-vah," Polish for "Bat Cave") in Jerzmanowice is one of the best-known show caves of the Polish Jura, the limestone upland just northwest of Kraków. A guided walk takes you through spacious,…
Other
Chochołowy Dwór in Jerzmanowice
Jerzmanowice
Chochołowy Dwór is a hotel and restaurant in Jerzmanowice, on national road 94 between Kraków and Olkusz, about 15 km from Kraków. The building and its interiors are styled on the manor houses of the local gentry. Ojców National Park and t…
Nature
Będkowska Valley
Jerzmanowice
Będkowska Valley is 7–8 km long and one of the longest valleys of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The Będkówka stream runs along its floor beneath limestone crags, and in the middle rises Sokolica – the highest rock of the Jura, with a face…
150–300 min Free entry
Nature
Szklarka Valley
Jerzmanowice
Less than 30 km from Kraków, the Szklarka stream cuts a ravine through the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, overlooked by limestone crags topped with a cross, the remains of an old nickel mine and half-wild beech woods. Dolina Szklarki is one of…
Free entry
Landscape parks
Kraków Valleys Landscape Park
Jerzmanowice
The Kraków Valleys Landscape Park (Dolinki Krakowskie, roughly "doh-LEEN-kee krah-KOV-skyeh") is a patchwork of limestone valleys, gorges and rock towers that begins right at Kraków's northwestern city limits. Established in 1981, it stret…
Free entry
Viewpoints
Skała 502 (Grodzisko)
Jerzmanowice
Maps still label it "Hill 502", although newer surveys from the early 1990s give its height as about 513 m. Skała 502 in Jerzmanowice, also called Grodzisko, is the highest point of the Olkusz Upland and the second highest summit of the wh…
Free entry
Churches & monasteries
St Bartholomew's Church in Jerzmanowice
Jerzmanowice
The church in Jerzmanowice has bells older than the building itself. One was cast in 1545, in the reign of King Sigismund the Old, the other in 1548. They survived because during the First World War parishioners buried them in the ground b…