Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
344 places
Rzyki
Above the houses of Ślemień, on the wooded slopes of a hill with an optimistic name — **Jasna Górka** (Bright Little Mountain) — stands a church that pilgrims have visited for centuries. The sanctuary of Our Lady belongs to the parish of t…
Dębno
Above the market square of Limanowa rises the monumental Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows, the principal shrine of the Beskid Wyspowy mountains. The church is an example of the native current in architecture, rooted in tradition, culture an…
Chrzanów
The tall tower of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is visible from afar in the panorama of Trzebinia, a town in the Chrzanów county of Lesser Poland. Run by the Salvatorians, the church is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, and…
Sucha Beskidzka
Above Maków Podhalański, a small town on the Skawa river in the Beskid Makowski mountains, rises the Church of the Transfiguration — the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Maków, Patroness of Families. In its present form the church was built betwee…
Olkusz
The sanctuary in Płoki, a village north of Trzebinia, lies on the edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The fame of this place is tied to the cult of Our Lady called the Lady of Płock, shown in a miraculous image from the mid-**15th centu…
Zakopane
In Olcza, the eastern part of Zakopane through which the Olczyski Potok stream flows, stands the Sanctuary of Our Lady Revealing the Miraculous Medal. The church is entirely a work of our times: the cornerstone, taken from the Tatra Mounta…
Czerna
In the Eliaszówka Valley, near Krzeszowice in the Lesser Poland commune of Krzeszowice, hides a baroque hermitage — the monastic retreat of the Discalced Carmelites. The foundation of **1629** we owe to Agnieszka Firlej née Tęczyńska, buri…
Dobczyce
A few steps from the castle hill in Dobczyce, among old trees in the Old Town quarter, stand six wooden buildings of the Open-Air Museum of Wooden Folk Architecture. It is the ethnographic branch of the Regional PTTK Museum and a stop on t…
Zakopane
At the foot of the Wielka Krokiew ski jump in Zakopane lies **Snowlandia**, a winter amusement park opened in the **2015/2016** season. Its centrepiece is a snow labyrinth rebuilt from scratch every year: made of artificial snow, it takes…
Sromowce Niżne
**Sokolica (747 m)** is one of the most recognisable mountains of the Pieniny: its summit rises as a rocky crag about **300 metres** above the Dunajec gorge, and on its ridge grows a pine that has become the emblem of the whole range. The…
Niedzica
In Niedzica-Zamek, above Lake Czorsztyn, operates **Spiska Kraina** — a family amusement park whose heart is made up of two miniature parks. The first, opened in **May 2015**, presents the most important monuments of Podhale, Spisz and Ora…
Sromowce Niżne
A wooden raft with two rafters in traditional costume carries you through the Dunajec Gorge — from the wharf in Sromowce Wyżne-Kąty to Szczawnica (**18 km**, about **2 h 15 min**) or on to Krościenko (**23 km**, about **2 h 45 min**). The…
Jastrzębik
The Wierchomla ski station (officially Wierchomla SKI & SPA Resort) operates in Wierchomla Mała in the Piwniczna-Zdrój municipality, in the Sącz Beskids. Skiers get **four lifts** and runs from easy to intermediate — snowed, groomed and fl…
Chabówka
Stare Wierchy is a peak in the Gorce Mountains, **969 m** above sea level, rising from the main ridge that runs west from Turbacz. On the broad Krauska glade, on the edge of an enclave of the Gorce National Park, stands the PTTK mountain h…
Czchów
On Narutowicza Street in Tarnów, on the former Zabłocie suburb, lies a necropolis older than Warsaw's Powązki and Kraków's Rakowice. The Old Cemetery, once called the Zabłocie Cemetery, has operated since about **1787** — its founding foll…
Zakopane
A few steps from the Krupówki promenade, on Kościeliska street, stands the small wooden church of Our Lady of Częstochowa and St Clement. It is the oldest wooden sacral building in Zakopane, known simply as the old church. The temple was e…
Rabsztyn
At the foot of the northern slope of Rudnica hill, on the edge of the Błędów Desert in Klucze, lie two ponds: Green and Red. Both formed in old excavations left after iron ore mining, flooded with water once the activity ended. Water in th…
Szczyrzyc
Between Łysina and Kamiennik Południowy, on the boundary of the Beskid Wyspowy and Beskid Makowski ranges, lies the broad saddle of Przełęcz Sucha (**710 m above sea level**). Sucha Polana has long served shepherds and hikers, and today it…
Zakopane
Three dark rock towers rise from the main ridge of the Western Tatras between Kasprowy Wierch and Kondracka Kopa — the Suche Czuby, properly called Suche Czuby Kondrackie. The Polish–Slovak border runs across them, and so does one of the m…
Nowy Sącz
In the heart of the former Jewish quarter of Nowy Sącz, not far from the royal castle, stands the brick synagogue known as Grodzka. Built in **1746**, it ranks among the more valuable baroque synagogues in Małopolska and today combines the…
Czorsztyn
More than **1,500 kilometres** of routes linking **252 wooden landmarks** — churches, tserkvas, manor houses, inns and open-air museums — the Wooden Architecture Trail in Małopolska is the region's largest cultural tourism route. As many a…
Sułoszowa
The yellow trail, **85.3 km** long, links the karst valleys of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland near Kraków into one continuous route: from Pieskowa Skała Castle it heads south-west all the way to the railway station in Chrzanów. Along the wa…
Kraków
A driving trail of about **533 km** links **38 manors and palaces** in **35 towns and villages** of Lesser Poland — from Olkusz in the north to Paszkówka near Wadowice. Its creators want to preserve the memory of a type of residence that o…
Chrzanów
The Renaissance Trail in Lesser Poland is a project of the Kraków-based Willa Decius Association, promoting the heritage of the 16th century — an era when Italian builders permanently entered the region’s landscape. The route covers manors…