Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
344 places
Witów
Opposite the church of Chochołów stands the **chalet of Jan Bafia** — one of the oldest and wealthiest houses in the village, and since **1978** the seat of the **Museum of the Chochołów Uprising**, a branch of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane…
Olkusz
At **8 Floriańska Street** in Olkusz, in the seat of the Tourist Information Point a few steps from the market square, operates the **Stefan Ząbczyński Firefighting Museum of the Olkusz Region** — a small institution with a unique set of f…
Olkusz
On the corner of the Olkusz market square, in a 16th-century town house called **Batorówka** — where, according to tradition, **King Stephen Báthory** once stayed — operates the **Antoni Minkiewicz PTTK Regional Museum**, the oldest museum…
Nowy Sącz
The Regional Museum in Stary Sącz is housed in a historic 17th-century burgher house by the market square, known as the „Dom na Dołkach”. It is run by the Society of Friends of Stary Sącz, initiated by the collector and antiquarian Józef P…
Lanckorona
At 133 Market Square in Lanckorona stands a wooden cottage housing the Antoni Krajewski Memorial Museum — one of the few buildings that survived the great fire of the town in the 19th century. The museum was founded in **1967** on the init…
Muszyna
The Regional Museum of the Muszyna Estate is housed in the wooden Inn on Krzywa Street 1, at the foot of the hill crowned by castle ruins. The building echoes a former inn of the manor complex below the castle, standing from the turn of th…
Nowy Sącz
The main seat of the Museum of the Sącz Region is the Gothic House at 3 Lwowska Street, within the old-town layout of Nowy Sącz, right next to the basilica. This stone-and-rubble building was raised at the turn of the **15th and 16th centu…
Wieliczka
The Kraków Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka is a national cultural institution founded in **1951** on the initiative of Alfons Długosz, a teacher from Wieliczka. Its collections hold around **20,000 objects** devoted to the history of salt mi…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The Little Beskids is a compact range of the Western Beskids, about **35 km** long and 10–15 km wide, with Czupel (**931 m**) as its highest peak. In winter it offers several friendly slopes near Wadowice and plenty of room for ski touring…
Zakopane
The Tatras are the highest mountains in Poland and the country's most capacious ski area, with Zakopane — the winter capital of Polish winter sports — at its centre. Skiers will find slopes with lifts for every level as well as high-mounta…
Wieliczka
On the market square of Wieliczka, since **May 2012**, visitors have found a free attraction on a scale rarely seen in Polish towns: the 3D street painting "Salt World" — the largest in Poland and one of the largest in Europe. The mural co…
Kraków
In the Polish Airmen Park at Aleja Pokoju 68 runs the Stanisław Lem Experience Garden — the first sensory educational park in Poland, modelled on the garden in Nuremberg. It is run by the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Kraków, and the…
Kraków
The “Alice in Wonderland” Garden of Lights in Kraków is a seasonal open-air illumination exhibition at the Stanisław Lem Experience Garden, Aleja Pokoju 68. The trail runs through a six-hectare park and combines large light figures with pr…
Nowy Sącz
On the meadows of Stary Sącz stands an altar that was meant to be temporary — and that is precisely why it survived. It was built for June **1999**, when the town was visited by John Paul II, who on **16 June** presided over the solemn **c…
Kraków
The Benedictine abbey in Tyniec is one of the oldest monasteries in Poland — tradition links its foundation with the year **1044** and Duke Casimir the Restorer. The abbey stands on a rocky bank of the Vistula in the southern part of Krakó…
Ludźmierz
In Białka Tatrzańska, on national road 49 at the foot of the Tatras, runs the Bania Ski Resort — a compact ski centre linked by a slope to the neighbouring Kotelnica Białczańska. Four lifts, including a **four-seater chairlift**, serve slo…
Ojców
The Prądnik Valley in the Ojców National Park is the best place to see what Jurassic limestone outcrops really are. The park was established in **1956** as the sixth in Poland and is also the smallest — it covers just **21.46 km²** — with…
Stary Wiśnicz
At 6 Jana Goetza Okocimskiego Street in Brzesko stands one of the finest examples of Polish industrial-era residences from the turn of the 20th century — the Goetz Palace, called the „New Palace". It was built in **1898–1900** on the initi…
Wieliczka
The late Baroque palace at Mieczysław Skulimowski square is one of the most interesting monuments of Wieliczka — today the seat of the Malopolska-Swietokrzyski branch of the Institute of National Remembrance, its walls holding traces of mo…
Korzkiew
A few minutes from Kraków's airport, on the northern side of the A4 motorway, among the old trees of a historic park stands the grand palace known as the Radziwiłł residence. The site's history reaches back to **1519**, when Seweryn Boner…
Chrzanów
The palace at Młoszowa is one of the strangest residences of Lesser Poland: a Neo-Gothic palace pretending to be a medieval castle. Its owner, Juliusz Florkiewicz, invented an entire story of a stronghold destroyed by the Swedes, drew up a…
Nowy Sącz
A few kilometres south of Nowy Sącz, among the old trees of the Stadnicki park, stands a palace whose lineage reaches back to the 16th century. Today it houses the Małopolska Agricultural Advisory Centre, and its body retains the shape giv…
Kraków
In the crypts of the church of Sts Peter and Paul on Grodzka Street, between the Main Square and Wawel, operates the **National Pantheon** — the resting place of the most eminent creators of Polish art, culture and science, and a continuat…
Sromowce Niżne
Park Górny, officially bearing the name of Adam Count Stadnicki, is the oldest spa park of Szczawnica and the heart of the health resort at the same time. Its arrangement was begun in **1824** by Jan Kutscher, and successive owners of the…