Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
344 places
Sromowce Niżne
**Koziarz** (943 m above sea level) lies on the main ridge of the **Radziejowa Range** in the Sącz Beskids, in its western part, between Jaworzynka (936 m) and Suchy Groń (855 m). The summit itself is wooded, but since **2015** it has carr…
Kraków
By the Matecznego roundabout in Kraków, in a park laid out on the site of the former spa, operates the **Krakowska Pijalnia Zdrojowa** — a mineral water pump room opened in **2021**, which after almost twenty years restored the locals' acc…
Zakopane
Krupówki is the main axis of Zakopane — a pedestrian thoroughfare longer than **one kilometre**, closed to car traffic, where a stroll comes with oscypek sheep cheese, kierpce footwear and horse-drawn carriages. The street starts at the cr…
Zakopane
A kulig is a winter procession of horse-drawn sleighs combined with a feast around a bonfire — an entertainment whose history in Poland reaches back to the **16th century**. In Zakopane sleigh rides are organised daily, usually from **3 pm…
Kraków
By the Planty gardens, a few hundred metres from Wawel Castle (Podzamcze street), stands a bench with the figures of two eminent mathematicians — **Stefan Banach** and **Otton Nikodym**. It commemorates a chance meeting of **1916** from wh…
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…
Szczyrzyc
Lubomir (**904 m above sea level**) is the highest peak of the Lubomir and Łysina Range and a point of the Crown of Polish Mountains — as the highest summit of the Makowski Beskids. The forested mountain does not promise sweeping views, ye…
Chabówka
Maciejowa (**837 m above sea level**) is a peak in the Gorce Mountains, lying on the long ridge that runs from Turbacz all the way to Rabka-Zdrój — and one of the most easily accessible mountain walks in this part of the Beskids. The ridge…
Sucha Beskidzka
Above Maków Podhalański, on the northern side of the Skawa valley, rises Makowska Góra (**580 m above sea level**) — a wooded hill in the Koskowa Góra range turned into a viewpoint and walking spot. An asphalt road leads up from the market…
Kraków
Lesser Poland has **14 sites** on the UNESCO World Heritage List and almost all of them can be combined into a single driving loop of about **320 kilometres** starting in Kraków. The UNESCO List was created in **1978**, and its very first…
Czchów
The Lesser Poland Wine Trail connects vineyards scattered from the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland to the Ciężkowice Foothills. It was established in **2013** by the Gorce Tourism Organisation together with the regional authorities; at the start…
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…
Sułoszowa
In Grodzisko near Skała, within the Ojców National Park, the Tarnówki mill worked for centuries – today one of **12 preserved** monuments of water milling in the Prądnik Valley. The site belongs to private owners, who run an agritourism fa…
Dębno
Modyń (1,029 m above sea level) is one of the highest peaks of the Beskid Wyspowy, a range of solitary hill "islands" between Łącko and Limanowa. The three-ridged massif is covered with dense forest, but since **2021** a **27-metre observa…
Jastrzębik
The mofetta named after Professor Henryk Świdziński, on the boundary of Jastrzębik and Złockie near Muszyna, is the largest and most productive cold gas emission in Poland. From the bed of the Złocki Stream a gas consisting of roughly **95…
Lubomierz
Mogielica (1,170 m above sea level) is the highest peak of the Beskid Wyspowy and a member of the Crown of Polish Mountains, known as the Queen of the range. Since **2022** the forested dome, called the Kopa by locals, has been topped by a…
Dobczyce
Above the Raba river in Dobczyce, on the hill of the former royal town, survive the remains of the medieval town walls. After 20th-century securing and conservation carried out at the beginning of the 21st century, they now serve as a tidy…
Olkusz
The Museum of African Art in Olkusz holds one of the more interesting Polish collections of the art and culture of the African continent, gathered in the town centre on Szpitalna street. It began with a 1971 donation by the Olkusz physicia…
Rudno
The private Agate Museum in Rudno opened in **July 2020** on the **Spalisko** hill, about **400 m above sea level**, right next to the ruins of Tenczyn castle. The location was dictated by geology: the hill is built of Permian volcanic roc…
Kraków
The Archdiocesan Museum of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła in Kraków occupies two townhouses at **19–21 Kanonicza street**, at the foot of Wawel: the House of St Stanisław and the Dean's House. It presents sacred art from the **13th to the 19th cen…
Wiślica
On the outskirts of Szczucin in the Dąbrowa district, along national road 73 from Kielce to Jasło, operates an institution without a counterpart in Poland: a museum devoted entirely to the history of road building and maintenance. It is ru…
Czchów
In the northern frontage of the Tarnów market square, in two Renaissance townhouses from the **16th century** at numbers **20 and 21**, operates the Museum of Tarnów and Region History — a branch of the Muzeum Ziemi Tarnowskiej, establishe…
Kraków
A few steps from Wawel, at **17 Kanonicza Street**, stands the **Palace of Bishop Erazm Ciołek** — a residence built at the beginning of the 16th century, combining a Gothic structure with Renaissance styling. Since **2007** it has housed…
Ojców
At the foot of the castle hill in Ojców, in the historic building of the former **Hotel Pod Łokietkiem**, operates the **Museum of Ojców National Park named after Władysław Szafer** — the educational and museum centre of the smallest natio…