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

Piekary Śląskie
The Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Bartholomew the Apostle in Piekary Śląskie is the centre of an important Marian shrine in Upper Silesia. It houses the revered image of Our Lady of Piekary and is linked with a long pilgrim…

Piekary Śląskie
In autumn, usually on a Saturday in October, the historic park in Świerklaniec becomes an arena for riders, hunters and foresters. The programme usually starts around noon and lasts several hours; check the municipality notice for current…

Piekary Śląskie
On **Cerekwica hill** in Piekary Śląskie, right next to the basilica of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Justice and Social Love, spreads the **Piekary Calvary** — a complex of calvary chapels which is an important place of prayer and pilgrima…

Piekary Śląskie
In the eastern part of the village of Rogoźnik, in the municipality of Bobrowniki, a disused quarry lies in a small basin between the Buczyna and Sadowie hills. Limestone and marl from the **Triassic** period was extracted here — rocks wit…

Piekary Śląskie
**The Liberation Mound in Piekary Śląskie** is the city’s highest point and a monument to Upper Silesia’s history. It was raised between 1932 and 1937 to commemorate King John III Sobieski’s march towards Vienna and the return of part of S…

Piekary Śląskie
In the northern part of the Świerklaniec park, away from the former palace buildings, stands the **neo-Gothic church of the Good Shepherd** — the Lutheran court church of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, joined by an open cloister to t…
Piekary Śląskie
In a forest between Zyglynek and Bibiela, a hamlet of Miasteczko Slaskie, hides a wooden hunting palace with striking, ornamented gables bearing yellow horns. It was built around **1890** by the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, owners of t…

Piekary Śląskie
The park in Świerklaniec, between Tarnowskie Góry and Piekary Śląskie, holds traces of one of the most splendid residences of Upper Silesia. What survives is the Knight's Palace, raised in 1903–1906 to a design by Ernst von Ihne as the gue…

Piekary Śląskie
The park in Świerklaniec, between Tarnowskie Góry and Pyrzowice on road 78, is today a place for walks — and a memorable remnant of the residence of the Donnersmarck family, among the richest people in Europe a century ago. At its heart li…

Piekary Śląskie
In a small grove on the hill between Orzech and Świerklaniec stands a round stone tower that for generations has evoked associations with a medieval stronghold. In fact it is an **artificial ruin from the 19th century** — a garden structur…

Piekary Śląskie
On the edge of Dobieszowice, just beyond the bed of the Brynica, you can spot a low concrete block crowned with an armoured dome that has been blending into the local fields for decades. This is heavy combat bunker No. 52 „Wesoła”, a link…

Piekary Śląskie
Piekary Śląskie, a city with county rights in the heart of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, links five waymarked hiking trails. They run through places central to the region's history: traces of the march of John III Sobieski's hussar…

Piekary Śląskie
On the Rajski Plac beside the basilica in Piekary Śląskie — the heart of the Sanctuary of Social Justice and Love, one of Upper Silesia's foremost Marian shrines — a Christmas display known as Piekarskie Betlejem (the Bethlehem of Piekary)…

Piekary Śląskie
Between Tarnowskie Góry and Piekary Śląskie the Brynica river unexpectedly spreads into a broad body of water whose shores link Świerklaniec, Kozłowa Góra and Wymysłów. The Kozłowa Góra Reservoir, also known as Lake Świerklanieckie, was no…