Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Old towns & squares
Radom
In most historic towns life revolves around the market square, but in Radom the heart of the city is a street — the pedestrian promenade on ul. Stefana Żeromskiego, the old road to Lublin. At number 51 there was once Stanisław Wierzbicki's…
Landmarks
Czerna
The Devil's Bridge in Czerna is the ruin of a stone bridge built in the 17th century by the hermits of a Carmelite hermitage over the stream in the Eliaszówka Valley. Resembling a Roman aqueduct, the structure is now a forest-covered ruin…
Nature
Siedlec
The Devil's Bridges (Diabelskie Mosty) are three limestone rocks 15–18 m high, split by deep fissures, in the forest of the Parkowe nature reserve near Złoty Potok. They were named in the 19th century by the poet Zygmunt Krasiński, and nea…
Nature
Aleksandrowice
The Aleksandrowice Valley is a roughly 3-km Jurassic valley in Aleksandrowice (Zabierzów municipality), just beyond Kraków's western boundary. It lies on the Tenczyn Ridge within Tenczyn Landscape Park. For a short walk you get a pond with…
Nature
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…
Nature
Wisła
Around 25 waterfalls and rock steps, the tallest of them 5 metres high – these are the Rodło Cascades, the highest waterfalls in the Silesian Beskids, tucked away in the valley of the Biała Wisełka stream in Wisła Czarne. The stream is one…
Nature
Chrosna
Twenty years ago the rocks of this valley had almost vanished under bushes and trees. After the 1950s the Brzoskwinka Valley became overgrown and stopped attracting visitors, until the people of Chrosna cleared the limestone crags and mark…
Nature
Bytom
For more than a century, the land along the Bytomka river was wrecked by a steelworks and mines; today it is crossed by walking and cycling paths. The Bytomka Valley, on the border of Bytom's Łagiewniki and Szombierki districts, is not wil…
Nature
Trzyciąż
The Dłubnia is a small river that for centuries turned the wheels of mills, forges, fulling mills and paper mills, and today runs through one of the quietest corners of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Its valley, from the springs in Jangrot…
Nature
Czerna
Eliaszówka Valley (say el-yah-SHOOF-kah) is a wooded limestone valley between the villages of Czerna and Paczółtowice, about 30 km (19 miles) west of Kraków. It combines nature and history: beech forest, a heart-shaped spring beneath a sma…
Nature
Wierzchowie
The Kluczwoda Valley (pronounced roughly "klooch-VO-dah"), also called the Wierzchówka Valley, is one of the eight "Kraków Valleys" – a winding wooded gorge lined with white limestone crags, the scant ruins of a medieval castle and the lon…
Nature
Zabierzów
The Kobylańska Valley is a gorge some 4 km long, lined with limestone crags, that begins at the edge of the village of Kobylany, about 20 km north-west of Kraków. In its lower part there are few trees, so the rocks are everywhere you look…
Nature
Ojców
The Sąspowska Valley (say "sonce-POV-skah") is the second-largest valley in Ojców National Park (say "OY-tsoof"), Poland's smallest national park, about 25 km (15 miles) north of Kraków. Almost undeveloped, with meadows on the valley floor…
Historic sites
Bydgoszcz
The Valley of Death (Dolina Śmierci) in the Fordon district of Bydgoszcz is a wooded ravine where, in the autumn of 1939, German units shot an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 Poles and Jews from the city and its surroundings. Today it is one of t…
Nature
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…
Nature
Poznań
The Szklarka Valley is a wooded corner of eastern Poznań right next to the New Zoo, where a stream flows towards the Cybina River and Lake Malta. The valley's best-known feature was the timber treetop walk – but since 31 December 2025 the…
Nature
Katowice
The Valley of Three Ponds (Dolina Trzech Stawów, say "DOH-lee-na TSHEH-kh STAH-voof") is Katowice's biggest green escape close to downtown: a park of lakes, woodland, bike paths and skating trails just south of the city center. Locals come…
Nature
Smoleń
Despite its name – roughly "the watery valley" – no stream runs along the floor of the Wodąca Valley. This dry karst valley, about 3 km long, between Smoleń near Pilica and Domaniewice near Wolbrom, packs in almost everything the Kraków-Cz…
Landscape parks
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…
Landmarks
Węgrów
The wavy, two-storey gable crowned with a star can be seen from the far end of St Mary's Market Square. The Gdańsk House, a Baroque inn from the mid-18th century, recalls the days when Węgrów lived off the grain trade and competed with nei…
Landmarks
Pyzdry
On the market square in Pyzdry, among brick town houses, stands a wooden house with an arcaded porch resting on four posts. It was built in 1768 and is the oldest surviving residential building in this former royal town on the Warta. Today…
Churches & monasteries
Głogówek
The Loreto House in Głogówek is a copy of the Holy House (Santa Casa) of Loreto, completed in 1630 at the expense of Count Georg III von Oppersdorff and enclosed within the Franciscan church at 3 Klasztorna Street. It is a "church within a…
Landmarks
Supraśl
On ul. Konarskiego in Supraśl, right next to the monastery complex, stands a wooden, shingle-roofed house that locals know by three names: the Gardener's House (Dom Ogrodnika), the Old Post Office (Stara Poczta) and the Old Inn (Stara Karc…
Landmarks
Międzylesie
On Sobieskiego street stand two houses that seem to belong to another age: tall, steep roofs, board-clad gables facing the street and arcades on wooden posts. They are the last of seven weavers' houses known locally as the "Seven Brothers"…