Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
357 places
Szydłów
In Kurozwęki, in the shadow of the nearby palace, stands the Gothic church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built around **1470**. Its history mirrors the turbulence of the epochs: from the arrival of the canons regular to a P…
Łódź
Over Kościelny Square in Łódź's old town rises the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — the temple of the city's oldest parish, for almost five hundred years the only Catholic community in Łódź. The masonry church was buil…
Niemodlin
By the market square of Niemodlin stands the Gothic church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a temple with a presbytery from the end of the **13th century**, which for over four centuries (1389–1810) served as a collegiate chu…
Stary Wiśnicz
Next to the market square of Nowy Wiśnicz, a private town raised by a magnate family, stands the Baroque church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The founder was hetman **Stanisław Lubomirski**, who developed Wiśnicz at the sam…
Oświęcim
By the market square of Oświęcim stands the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose origins reach back to the **12th century**. The first, wooden church burned during the Mongol invasion of **1241**; a later brick one di…
Stara Wieś
At 22 Senatorska Street stands the town's most important church — the **Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary**, belonging to the Archdiocese of Częstochowa and serving today as a Marian sanctuary. The parish's history reache…
Racibórz
On the southern corner of the Racibórz market square, at Mickiewicza Street, stands the **Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary** — the old parish church and the oldest temple in town, and one of the oldest parish churches in…
Tarnowskie Góry
On a hill in Zbrosławice near Tarnowskie Góry stands the Gothic-Baroque church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a temple already mentioned in **1447**, known today as the Sanctuary of the Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary…
Brenna
On the right bank of the Brennica in Górki Wielkie stands the **Church of All Saints** — one of the oldest temples of the Cieszyn Silesia region. The village was first recorded in **1305** and the local parish in **1417**; the Gothic presb…
Dębno
In Łososina Górna near Nowy Sącz stands the wooden church of All Saints, the temple with the oldest credentials in the area. The present structure dates from **1778**, but it was built on the base of earlier sacral buildings, including a c…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On St Anne's Street in Goczałkowice-Zdrój — a leisure village in Upper Silesia, in Pszczyna County — stands the **brick church of St Anne** from **1883**. It was most likely erected on the site of an earlier wooden temple, and its modest b…
Święta Katarzyna
Beneath the monastery on Święty Krzyż, at the top of Łysa Góra, stretch crypts holding the coffins of former monks — some of the bodies mummified naturally in the cool, damp underground. In a separate chamber lies Prince Jeremi Wiśniowieck…
Legnica
In the Baroque church of St John the Baptist in Legnica survives the first Baroque funerary chapel in Silesia: the **Mausoleum of the Silesian Piasts** of 1677–1679. It was built for the last members of the dynasty and at the same time sta…
gmina Przygodzice
In Ołobok on the Prosną river, 17 km east of Ostrów Wielkopolski, survives one of the oldest monastic monuments of Wielkopolska. The foundation of **1211** is credited to Duke Władysław Odonic, and **two years later** Archbishop Henryk Kie…
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…
gmina Żary
The Gothic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary at Klasztorny Square 2 in Żagań is the heart of the former Augustinian complex: next to it stand the monastery of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, the monastic granary and the ko…
Częstochowa
Przeprośna Górka (296 m a.s.l.), also called Gąszczyk, rises in Siedlec near Mstów, right at the border of Częstochowa. On its summit stands the church of the Eight Blessings of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael — the first…
Ojców
Above the Prądnik Valley, on the summit of the Długa rock in Grodzisko near Skała, stands the hermitage complex of Blessed Salomea: a Romanesque hermitage from the **13th century**, a Baroque church and prayer huts. The site lies on the ro…
Stara Wieś
Between the market square and the town hall in Wieluń, opposite the church of St Joseph, lie the exposed foundations of the town's oldest parish church — the collegiate church of St Michael the Archangel. The church was built at the turn o…
Siewierz
On a hill by Cmentarna Street in Siewierz stands the Romanesque church of St. John the Baptist — one of the oldest preserved churches in Poland. It was probably built in **1144 or 1164**, funded by Piotr Włostowic, who is credited with fou…
Podzamcze
Near Ogrodzieniec, on a hill in the centre of Giebło, stands the oldest sacred monument of this part of the Jura: the single-nave church of St James the Apostle, built of dressed stone in the **mid-12th century**. It is one of the oldest r…
Henryków
On a rise by the old town of Strzelin stands one of the oldest stone buildings of Lower Silesia — the Romanesque rotunda of St. Gotthard. The central-plan church was probably built in the **first half of the 13th century**, though some sch…
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…