Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Zabrze
On Jan Paweł II Square in Nowy Bytom, regarded as the main market square of Ruda Śląska, stands the mighty basilica of St. Paul the Apostle — one of the finest examples of Romanesque Revival in Upper Silesia. Construction began in 1911, an…
Krzyżanowice
In Tworków in the Racibórz Land, not far from the Czech border, stands the **Baroque church of Saints Peter and Paul** — considered one of the most valuable Baroque works of this land. Beneath its floor hides a family crypt with **eleven c…
gmina Niegowa
On Laskowiec hill, a limestone ridge near the centre of Żarki in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the tidied-up ruin of the church of St Stanislaus. The masonry church was built after **1763** of quarried limestone, on the site of a w…
gmina Niegowa
By the Old Market Square in Żarki stands the parish church built in **1518–1522** at the initiative of Marcin Myszkowski, castellan of Wieluń. Its full dedication reads: church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of Sts Simon and Jude…
Chorzów
On ks. Ludwika Tunkla street in Kochłowice, a district of Ruda Śląska, rises the church of the Holy Trinity, a building that combines Romanesque Revival with Gothic Revival. Work began in **1900**, and the church was consecrated as early a…
Zabrze
On Kościelne Hill in Zabrze-Mikulczyce stands the neo-Gothic church of St Lawrence — a church with an exceptionally well documented Upper Silesian history. The parish paid Peter's pence as early as **1326**, and according to the parish pri…
Żywiec
In the upper part of Jeleśnia, on the road leading to the Polish-Slovak border crossing at Korbielów, stands the baroque church of St Adalbert — the most important monument of this large Beskid village. The present church was built at the…
Racibórz
On the southern corner of the Racibórz market square, at Mickiewicza Street, stands the **Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary** — the old parish church and the oldest temple in town, and one of the oldest parish churches in…
Tarnowskie Góry
On a hill in Zbrosławice near Tarnowskie Góry stands the Gothic-Baroque church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a temple already mentioned in **1447**, known today as the Sanctuary of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary…
Brenna
On the right bank of the Brennica in Górki Wielkie stands the **Church of All Saints** — one of the oldest temples of the Cieszyn Silesia region. The village was first recorded in **1305** and the local parish in **1417**; the Gothic presb…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On St Anne's Street in Goczałkowice-Zdrój — a leisure village in Upper Silesia, in Pszczyna County — stands the **brick church of St Anne** from **1883**. It was most likely erected on the site of an earlier wooden temple, and its modest b…
Brenna
In the centre of Brenna, behind the Brennica river opposite the local church, stands **Kozia Zagroda** — a reconstructed Wallachian homestead modelled on the farmsteads that once stood in this part of Cieszyn Silesia. The complex at 3 Spor…
Wisła
In a wooded slope above Wisła, by the Kobyla housing estate, a roughly **10-metre** rock with a bench on top emerges from the ground. Krzakoska Skała, also called the Rock on Kobyla, rises at an altitude of **730 m above sea level** and is…
Chałupki
At the crossing of Zabełkowska and Wiejska streets in Rudyszwałd, right by the border with Zabełków, stands a stone penitential cross — a monument to an old practice that today is recalled mainly by such stones. The exact year of its creat…
Radzionków
Above Radzionków, in the Tarnowskie Góry Ridge, rises Księża Góra, **357 m above sea level** — a hill that belonged to the church for centuries and is now the town's largest park. From the green slopes a panorama stretches over Radzionków,…
gmina Niegowa
Near Żarki, at the northern edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the Częstochowa Upland comes to an abrupt end: towards the Varta pradolinya (ice-marginal valley) drops a steep rock scarp about **70 metres** high — the Jura cuesta, one o…
Tarnowskie Góry
In the middle of a forest between Kalety-Miotek and the town centre, roughly halfway along Paderewski street, lies a meadow that turns into a blue-violet carpet in June. This is when the **Siberian iris** blooms — a species under strict pr…
Chorzów
Lampa Aladyna is a winter garden of lights laid out on the grounds of Legendia — the Silesian Amusement Park in Silesian Park in Chorzów, the oldest lunapark in Poland: it has operated since **12 September 1959** and has used its current n…
gmina Kroczyce
At the foot of Góra Zborów, a few steps from the Heritage Centre of the Jura in Podlesice, an open-air collection of stone witnesses to the history of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has been laid out. Each block has an information board, so…
Katowice
Contrary to the stereotype of Katowice as a city of nothing but chimneys, a fragment of mixed forest with natural features is protected within its limits — the Murcki Forest reserve, established in **1953** and enlarged in **1989** to **10…
Żywiec
In the castle park in Żywiec, right next to the palace, a woman sits on a bench with a scarf bearing the Habsburg coat of arms in her hand. This is Archduchess **Alice Habsburg** — a Swede by birth who became a Pole by choice and, during W…
Częstochowa
On the representative Alley of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the very centre of Częstochowa, a doctor sits on a bench — a book and a stethoscope lie beside him. This is a monument to **Dr Władysław Biegański**, the man who at the turn of the…
Istebna
On the summit of Cieńków Niżny (**720 m above sea level**) in the Silesian Beskids stands a bench with one of the pleasantest views above Wisła: **Czantoria** and **Czupel** line the horizon, **Lake Czernichów** glistens below, and sheep g…
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…