Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Racibórz
Even as a ruin, the palace in Sławików in the Rudnik commune near Racibórz impresses: it is the largest palace in Racibórz county, with a 62-metre facade of 19 window axes. The exact date of its construction has not been established — scho…
Piekary Śląskie
The park in Świerklaniec, between Tarnowskie Góry and Piekary Śląskie, holds traces of one of the most splendid residences of Upper Silesia. What survives is the Knight's Palace, raised in 1903–1906 to a design by Ernst von Ihne as the gue…
Włodowice
In the centre of Zawiercie, next to the neo-Gothic basilica, stands a small palace built in **1895–1910** for **Stanisław Szymański**, director of the Zawiercie Joint-Stock Company — the works that made the town famous. The design was the…
Gliwice
At 6 Fredry Street, in the Fryderyk Chopin Park in central Gliwice, runs the Municipal Palm House — a glazed botanical garden with over **5,500 plants** and aquariums. The first greenhouses appeared here as early as **1880** as a private o…
Wyry
Lake Paprocańskie in the southern part of Tychy is an artificial reservoir of remarkable pedigree: it was created in **1796** for the needs of the **Paprocany ironworks** — it served to cool the furnace casing and to power the blowers and…
Podzamcze
At the foot of the Ogrodzieniec Castle ruins in Podzamcze, in the heart of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the Physics Experience Park opened in **2014**. Several dozen devices let you test the laws of physics with your own body — from the…
Chorzów
Górnik Park in Michałkowice, a district on the north-western outskirts of Siemianowice Śląskie, is a former manor park surrounding the residence of the local landowners. The story begins with the Mieroszewski family, who raised the first m…
Chrzanów
Park Gródek, officially the Gródek Arboretum, covers **58.54 hectares** of former dolomite excavations, worked from around **1880 until 1990** for the needs of the old Szczakowa Cement Plant. After reclamation the quarry turned into one of…
Katowice
Tadeusz Kościuszko Park is the largest park of Katowice: it covers **72 hectares** between Kościuszki street, Piękna street and Górnośląska avenue, in the district of Brynów eastern part-Osiedle Zgrzebnioka. Its beginnings reach back to **…
Będzin
In the eastern part of Sosnowiec, in the Kazimierz Górniczy district between Jasieńskiego and Armii Krajowej streets, lies **Kuroń Park**, formerly known as the Leśna centre. Its alleys and footbridges were built decades ago by miners of t…
Chorzów
In the heart of **Silesian Park** — the green lungs of Upper Silesia covering around **535 hectares**, one of the largest urban parks in Europe — on Dojazdowa alley, right behind the Legendia amusement park, operates the **Silesia Rope Par…
gmina Kroczyce
In the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, in Podlesice in the Kroczyce commune, next to the Ostaniec Hotel and not far from the **Góra Zborów** reserve, operates a rope park opened in **2013** and expanded a year later. It makes a convenient base…
Podzamcze
At the foot of the ruins of **Ogrodzieniec Castle** — the best-known stronghold of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland — on Zamkowa street in Podzamcze operates **AdrenaLinaPark**. The rope park opened here in **2006** and has been expanded seve…
Gliwice
In winter, the grounds of the **Leśne Kąpielisko MOSiR** forest swimming area at Srebrna 10 street in Zabrze turn into the **Park of a Million Lights** — a festive land of illuminations spread over **220,000 m²**. The leading theme is the…
Podzamcze
A few dozen metres from the ruins of **Ogrodzieniec Castle**, at Zamkowa 33 street in Podzamcze, stands the **Miniatures Park** — **17 models of Jura castles** at a **1:25** scale, recreated according to historical truth and placed roughly…
Podzamcze
Beneath the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle in Podzamcze, in the heart of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, a family complex of five parks operates. The oldest is the Miniature Park: models at a scale of **1:25** of all the castles and stronghol…
Tarnowskie Góry
Wilkowice near Zbrosławice, a dozen or so kilometres west of Tarnowskie Góry, hide a family Park of Adventures and Attractions that grew out of a small indoor playroom. Today it is a large area by a pond, with a deer enclosure, a beach and…
Tarnowskie Góry
Between Repty and Stare Tarnowice, in the northern part of Tarnowskie Góry, stretches Repecki Park — the former grounds of the neorenaissance residence of the **Henckel von Donnersmarck** family, for whom these lands were a hunting retreat…
Podzamcze
Right below Ogrodzieniec Castle in Podzamcze, in the heart of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, operates Park Ogrodzieniec — a family entertainment complex opened in 2014, of which the Amusement Park is a part. The goal is clear: the youngest…
Chorzów
Silesian Park in Chorzów, formerly the Provincial Park of Culture and Recreation, covers about 535 hectares and ranks among the largest urban parks in Europe. It lies in the heart of the Upper Silesian conurbation, earned the nickname of t…
Piekary Śląskie
The park in Świerklaniec, between Tarnowskie Góry and Pyrzowice on road 78, is today a place for walks — and a memorable remnant of the residence of the Donnersmarck family, among the richest people in Europe a century ago. At its heart li…
gmina Niegowa
The green axis of Złoty Potok sets the rhythm of this Jura village: the historic park stretches along the Wiercica stream, next to voivodeship road 793, near the buildings on Kosciuszki Street. The old layout can still be read as a coheren…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
Goczałkowice-Zdrój is one of the few villages in Poland with full spa status, and its spa park, laid out at the beginning of the 20th century, forms the green axis of the village by the Goczałkowice Reservoir. Healing traditions go back to…
Częstochowa
Between the centre of Częstochowa and the monastery on Jasna Góra stretch two municipal parks: **Stanisław Staszic Park** (5.45 ha) and **May 3rd Park** (6.39 ha). Their boundaries were marked out in **1819–1826**, when the representative…