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

Nowy Sącz
The royal castle built by **Casimir the Great between 1350 and 1360** stands in the very centre of Nowy Sącz, on a ridge between the **Dunajec and Kamienica** rivers. After a recent revitalisation the ruins are open to visitors again, and…

Nowy Sącz
Saint Margaret’s Basilica in Nowy Sącz is a Gothic church on Kolegiacki Square, beside the market square and the historic urban layout. The earliest record of the church dates from 1303. Today, the basilica is one of the city’s most import…
Nowy Sącz
The Szekler Gate in Stary Sącz is a wooden gate inspired by the traditional architecture of the Szeklers, a Hungarian community from Transylvania. It stands beside the Poor Clares convent, on St Kinga’s Square, and recalls Stary Sącz’s his…

Nowy Sącz
**St Kinga’s Wayside Shrine in Stary Sącz** is a small late-Baroque shrine on Bandurskiego Street, beside a spring and the St Kinga Trail. The masonry structure was built in **1779** on the site of an earlier wooden shrine. Its importance…

Nowy Sącz
**The Poor Clares Monastery in Stary Sącz** is one of the town’s most important monuments and a key heritage site of the Sącz region. St Kinga, a duchess who later became a nun, founded it in 1280. The complex stands on a slope above the P…

Nowy Sącz
**The Church of the Holy Spirit in Nowy Sącz** is a former Norbertine church now run by the Jesuits. Its oldest sections are Gothic, while later rebuilding added Baroque elements, a 17th-century nave and a tower from 1755. The church stand…

Nowy Sącz
At the top of Miejska Góra hill in Stary Sącz begins a treetop path of over **200 metres**, ending at the Forest Pier — free, accessible to everyone and with a view that no ticket can buy. The structure was built in a joint cross-border pr…

Nowy Sącz
On the outskirts of Nowy Sącz, on Lwowska Street, a reconstructed Galician small town of more than a century ago has been brought back to life: a market square with a town hall, a stylish café and an inn serving regional dishes. The open-a…

Nowy Sącz
The Regional Museum in Stary Sącz is housed in a historic 17th-century burgher house by the market square, known as the „Dom na Dołkach”. It is run by the Society of Friends of Stary Sącz, initiated by the collector and antiquarian Józef P…

Nowy Sącz
The main seat of the Museum of the Sącz Region is the Gothic House at 3 Lwowska Street, within the old-town layout of Nowy Sącz, right next to the basilica. This stone-and-rubble building was raised at the turn of the **15th and 16th centu…

Nowy Sącz
On the meadows of Stary Sącz stands an altar that was meant to be temporary — and that is precisely why it survived. It was built for June **1999**, when the town was visited by John Paul II, who on **16 June** presided over the solemn **c…

Nowy Sącz
A few kilometres south of Nowy Sącz, among the old trees of the Stadnicki park, stands a palace whose lineage reaches back to the 16th century. Today it houses the Małopolska Agricultural Advisory Centre, and its body retains the shape giv…

Nowy Sącz
The market square in Nowy Sącz measures **150 by 120 metres** and constituted one twelfth of the chartered town of **1292**. Today, together with ten perpendicular streets, it forms the medieval chessboard layout of the old town, and both…

Nowy Sącz
Stary Sącz ranks among the oldest towns in Poland — it received its charter in the **13th century**, lying on the amber route. The market square has kept the layout from the town’s founding under Magdeburg law: two streets leave from each…

Nowy Sącz
In the heart of the former Jewish quarter of Nowy Sącz, not far from the royal castle, stands the brick synagogue known as Grodzka. Built in **1746**, it ranks among the more valuable baroque synagogues in Małopolska and today combines the…