Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On the market square of Pszczyna, right next to the castle where she lived for years, a bronze Princess Daisy has sat down on a bench. The monument to Mary Theresa Olivia Hochberg von Pless was unveiled in **May 2009**; it is the work of P…
Brenna
On the slope of Równica in the Zawodzie district of Ustroń, at Zdrojowa **16**, runs the Forest Park of Surprises — an unusual zoological garden where deer, mouflons and alpacas roam freely among visitors, and feeding the animals is one of…
gmina Niegowa
At Kościuszki Street in Żarki, on road **792** leading to Jaworznik, stands a small-leaved lime called Babka — a natural monument more than **500 years old**. The tree has kept barely a third of its trunk and the wood is partly rotten, yet…
Podzamcze
From the basket of a balloon, the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland looks like a model: limestone outcrops, valleys and the ruins of the Trail of the Eagles' Nests castles spread out in one flat perspective. The most photographed point of the rout…
Szczyrk
Malinowska Skała (**1,152 m above sea level**) is a junction peak in the main ridge of the Barania Góra and Skrzyczne range in the Silesian Beskids. Here meet the borders of three villages — Wisła, Szczyrk and Lipowa — as well as the histo…
Wilkowice
The Mały Szlak Beskidzki, formerly known as the Northern Trail, is **137 kilometres** of red markings running from Straconka in Bielsko-Biała to Luboń Wielki in the Island Beskids. It is the fourth longest trail of the Carpathians, leading…
gmina Niegowa
In the centre of Żarki, at the foot of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, runs the Hokus Pokuss candy manufactory — a place where lollipops are made by hand and before the visitors' eyes. Piłsudskiego Street 17 hides a workshop where hot sugar…
Żywiec
Above Radziechowy, on the ridge separating the Żywiec Basin from the main range of the Silesian Beskids, rises Matyska hill (609 m above sea level). On its summit, known as the Golgota Beskidów (Calvary of the Beskids), stands the **Millen…
Tarnowskie Góry
Next to the Sacred Heart of Jesus church in Nakło Śląskie stands the neo-Romanesque mausoleum of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family. The family necropolis of the Nakło line was erected in **1898** to a design by the Viennese architect Hug…
gmina Niegowa
On the upper course of the Wiercica river, where it flows out of Zielony Staw (Green Pond), stands the wooden Kołaczew mill of **1807** – the last of six water mills that once worked on the river near Złoty Potok. The building lies within…
Tarnowskie Góry
On the walls of buildings by the transfer centre, right next to the railway station in Tarnowskie Góry, stretches the **Jubilee Mural** — a painting **119 metres** long, the largest mural in Upper Silesia. Unveiled **in spring 2025**, it c…
Racibórz
Racibórz was surrounded by walls earlier than most towns of Upper Silesia: the first documented mention comes **from 1299**, when Duke Przemysław of Racibórz ordered the burgrave to build defensive walls. The circuit, about **1.8 kilometre…
Częstochowa
The Museum of the 600th Anniversary of Jasna Góra has operated since **1982** in the monastery buildings of Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, marking **600 years** of the Pauline presence on the hill — the order was brought here on **22 June 1382…
Istebna
In Andziołówka, a hamlet of Istebna spread on the slopes of the Silesian Beskids, in the artist's former workshop operates the Jan Wałach Museum — dedicated to the graphic artist, painter and sculptor, a master of woodcut, who spent almost…
Katowice
In the historic district of Nikiszowiec, built in **1908–1919** for the miners of the "Giesche" colliery to a design by the Berlin architects **Emil and Georg Zillmann**, at **4 Rymarska Street** operates the Museum in Nikiszowiec — the Ur…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In an 18th-century town house at **26 Piastowska Street**, about 200 metres from the Pszczyna market square, operates the **Wojciech Korfanty Silesian Press Museum** — the only institution in Poland where visitors can print a sheet themsel…
Toszek
At **2 Edyty Stein Street**, almost on the market square of Lubliniec, stands the town house that held the home of **Edith Stein's** grandparents — the Courant family. Since **28 February 2009** it has housed the **Edith Stein Pro Memoria…
Cieszyn
The Museum of Cieszyn Silesia, founded in **1802** by Fr Leopold Jan Szersznik, is the oldest public museum in Poland and one of the oldest in Central Europe. Fr Szersznik then made his own library and museum collections available to the p…
Zamarski
The Museum of Saint John Sarkander is located at 2 Rynek in Skoczów, in a historic building next to the town hall. According to old tradition, John Sarkander — a priest and martyr from Skoczów, canonised in 1995 — was born here in 1576. A…
Będzin
The classicist building at Legionów Polskich Street 69 was erected in **1839–1842** as the seat of the Bank of Poland and of the Western Mining District administration; the design is attributed to Franciszek Maria Lanci. From **1889** a mi…
Częstochowa
The Częstochowa Museum is the oldest cultural institution of the Częstochowa region. It was founded in **1905** as the Museum of Hygiene, and from **1909** it was housed in an Art Nouveau pavilion in the Stanisław Staszic Park, erected for…
Racibórz
The Museum in Racibórz occupies two adjoining monuments near the Market Square: the former Gothic church of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit from **1327** at 1 Gimnazjalna Street and the building of the former People’s Bank on Chop…
Tarnowskie Góry
On the first floor of one of the town’s oldest town houses at 1 Market Square operates the Museum in Tarnowskie Góry — the only municipal museum in the Tarnowskie Góry county, with collections of nearly **10,000 objects**: history, art, et…
Szczyrk
On the slope of Grabowa in Brenna, along the black trail from the village centre, lies the Fairy Tale Garden — an open-air gallery of wooden sculptures belonging to the Chata Grabowa mountain hut. The paths are organised by a division into…