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

Siewierz
Castle of Bishops in Siewierz in Siewierz 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 deta…

Siewierz
The Siewierz Maidens Fountain stands on the Market Square in Siewierz, close to the ruins of the Kraków Bishops’ Castle. This free outdoor attraction works well as a short stop, photo spot or break during a trip through the Kraków–Częstoch…

Siewierz
Just behind the market square of Siewierz, next to the parish church, stands a single-storey manor house with a mansard shingle roof and dormers — the Old Municipality Building. This late-classicist, two-tract residence with a central hall…

Siewierz
The Przeczycki Reservoir, also known as Przeczyce or the Przeczycko-Siewierski Reservoir, was created in 1963 by damming the Czarna Przemsza. It lies in the Siewierz and Mierzęcice municipalities, near Przeczyce and Sarnów. The reservoir s…

Siewierz
## Key information The Cemetery Church of St. Valentine in Woźniki stands on Tarnogórska Street, south of the town centre. It is a wooden log-built church surrounded by shingled arcades. The cemetery contains Józef Lompa’s grave. ## Histor…

Siewierz
**St Barbara’s Church in Koziegłowy** is a small Baroque church with an unusual history: it was founded in 1670 as a hospital chapel and still preserves its connection with the former poorhouse. Its founders were Stanisław Kawiecki, staros…

Siewierz
**St Barbara and St Valentine’s Church in Siewierz** is a masonry hospital church built in 1618 through the efforts and funding of Siewierz burghers. It stands south of the Market Square, close to the ruins of the Kraków bishops’ castle, a…

Siewierz
Behind the market square of Siewierz, not far from the castle of the bishops of Kraków, stands the Church of St. Matthias the Apostle. Its beginnings reach the first half of the **15th century** — at that time only the presbytery was of br…

Siewierz
A few steps from the market square of Koziegłowy, on Kościelna Street, stands the church of St. Mary Magdalene and Corpus Christi — the former parish church of this small Jura town, woven into its medieval urban layout. The masonry buildin…

Siewierz
In a corner of the Siewierz market square, in the shade of the fountain with the Siewierz Maidens, two gentlemen sit on a bronze bench — **Stanisław Hadyna** and **Zdzisław Pyzik**, creators of the song „Od Siewierza jechał wóz" („A Cart W…

Siewierz
You don't need an airline ticket to watch jets take off up close. Katowice Airport in Pyrzowice — Poland's fourth airport by passenger numbers and aircraft movements — has placed two steel spotting platforms in the public area of the airpo…
Siewierz
On a September weekend the town of Poręba smells of slow-roasted potatoes — this is where, in the northern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, a dish with the status of a regional treasure was born. Prażonki are potatoes roasted for hou…

Siewierz
On a hill by Cmentarna Street in Siewierz stands the Romanesque church of St. John the Baptist — one of the oldest preserved churches in Poland. It was probably built in **1144 or 1164**, funded by Piotr Włostowic, who is credited with fou…

Siewierz
Koziegłowy, today a small town in the Myszków county, owe their shape to a medieval town charter from the **14th century**. Its heart remains the market square, which for most of its history changed neither its building lines nor its funct…

Siewierz
Siewierz received its town charter around **1276** and for centuries was the capital of its own duchy ruled by the bishops of Kraków. The market square, laid out at the town’s founding, still keeps the size of the medieval place — today vo…

Siewierz
In Koziegłówki, a village in the commune of Koziegłowy in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the church of Saint Anthony of Padua — a sanctuary distinguished by architecture rarely seen in the Jura. The church was built in the years **1…