Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 placesMiędzybrodzie Bialskie
On the edge of Pisarzowice, a village between Kęty and Bielsko-Biała, runs a Japanese garden established in the early 21st century alongside Antoni Pudełko's plant nursery — after the owners' journey to Japan. Admission is **free**, a rare…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On Zimowa Street 24 in the spa town of Goczałkowice-Zdrój operate the Kapias Gardens — display gardens created **over a dozen years ago** from bare ground, out of the plant passion of the owners of a local horticultural business. The layou…
Podzamcze
Since **4 November 2021**, when it was officially opened, the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle in Podzamcze turn after dark into the Ogrodzieniec Fortress of Light — an open-air illumination spectacle spread over several winter months. The set…
Zawiercie
Okiennik Wielki is the best-known rock outlier in the Silesian part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland and one of its symbols. It rises at the border of the villages of Piaseczno and Skarżyce (Kroczyce commune), right beside the red Trail of…
Częstochowa
At Żwirki i Wigury Street in Olsztyn near Częstochowa, arrivals are greeted by a **7-metre wooden Guardian Angel** — a sculpture by local artist Jan Wewiór, today one of the most recognisable signs of this Jura village. ## Why an angel? Th…
Zabrze
On Krakusa and Stalmacha streets, in the Małe Zabrze part of the city, one of the more interesting workers' colonies of Upper Silesia has survived. Zandka — the colloquial name of the complex, also called the Sand Colony (German: Sandkolon…
Tarnowskie Góry
The Equestrian Centre in Zbrosławice has operated since **1973**, when the Academic Equestrian Club from Katowice brought the first four horses here — within two weeks the stables held thirty animals, and an old mill became the club's base…
Istebna
On the north-eastern slope of **Wielki Stożek (978 m above sea level)** in the Silesian Beskids, in the Łabajów district of Wisła, runs the Stożek Ski Centre. It is a pick for skiers who prefer quieter slopes than the big resorts — and for…
gmina Kroczyce
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, better known as the Jura, is a belt of white limestone outcrops stretching about **80 km** between Kraków and Częstochowa. The towers are built of hard Upper Jurassic limestones, and their present shapes were…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
Baranowice Palace at 97 Zamkowa Street in Żory is a restored residence in Upper Silesia whose history reaches back to the **17th century**. It owes its present shape to a 19th-century rebuild by **Emil von Durant**, and after years of deca…
Tarnowskie Góry
Not far from Tarnowskie Góry rises the Neo-Gothic Donnersmarck Palace, modelled on English Gothic and Tudor architecture. Its tall tower, stepped gables and dormers with tent-shaped roofs make it one of the most recognisable monuments of t…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On the main road leading to Bielsko-Biala, in the Bazaniec district, stands a Rococo residence surrounded by a historic park. The Kotulinski Palace on Zamkowa street is one of the more valuable relics of the former Cieszyn Silesia; today i…
Będzin
A few steps from the Bedzin castle, in the green Gzichow district, stands a palace built in **1702**, whose successive owners recorded their position in the Duchy of Siewierz. The Baroque-Classical residence of the Mieroszewski family, als…
Piekary Śląskie
In a forest between Zyglynek and Bibiela, a hamlet of Miasteczko Slaskie, hides a wooden hunting palace with striking, ornamented gables bearing yellow horns. It was built around **1890** by the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, owners of t…
Tarnowskie Góry
From the main road of Brynek, a village near Tarnowskie Góry, the domes of an eclectic palace with two towers topped by onion helmets peer through the trees. The residence, today home to the Forest and Ecological Schools Complex, travelled…
Radzionków
On Dzierżoń Street in Bytom-Miechowice, near the Church of the Holy Cross, stands the restored outbuilding of the former Tiele-Winckler palace. The palace itself — so grand it was called a castle — is gone: it burned in **1945**, and the g…
Tarnowskie Góry
By the Zielona reservoir, in the part of Kalety separated from the town centre by a forest, stands the former hunting residence of the Donnersmarcks — one of the richest families of Upper Silesia. The historic building, listed in descripti…
Tarnowskie Góry
Late-classical residence in Lubliniec County, since **1953** the home of the Stanisław Hadyna Song and Dance Ensemble „Śląsk”. The site's history goes back to the Middle Ages, while the palace owes its present shape to the remodelling of *…
Racibórz
A tower-ringed residence near Racibórz, known as the pearl of the Racibórz Land, ranks among the largest palaces of Upper Silesia: it offers about **4,000 square metres** of floor space, **115 rooms** and **30 cellars** forming a labyrinth…
Racibórz
Beside the road from Racibórz to Rudnik, Neo-Gothic ruins of the Eichendorff palace rise from the park — an important site among the monuments of Romanticism in Poland. In **1788** the poet **Joseph von Eichendorff**, the singer of wanderi…
gmina Pilica
The palace in Pilica, also called the castle, is one of the most unusual residences of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland: a palazzo in fortezza, an Italian villa built into a bastion fortress. The late-Renaissance residence was begun shortly b…
Rzeczyce
The palace in Pławniowice, between Gliwice and Kędzierzyn-Koźle, is one of the most distinctive buildings of Upper Silesia: a three-winged residence of red brick under a steep graphite roof, decorated with turrets, spires and dormers. It w…
Soblówka
In the Soła valley between Milówka and Ujsoły in the Żywiec Beskids stands a palace that travelled from a minor nobleman's manor to a Habsburg residence and a hospital. The original seat was raised around 1809 by the Siemoński family; Anas…
Chorzów
In the Municipal Park of Siemianowice Śląskie stands a palace whose scale surprises: the main body alone exceeds 23 thousand cubic metres, making it one of the largest palaces in Poland. The residence dates back to the 17th century, when t…