Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Brenna
In the refreshed Ustroń Spa Park, on Sanatoryjna Street, a glass-walled Water Drinking Hall has been built whose architecture nods to Ustroń's famous wooden pyramids. It is one of the hearts of the resort — Ustroń is one of only two spa to…
Siewierz
You don't need an airline ticket to watch jets take off up close. Katowice Airport in Pyrzowice — Poland's fourth airport by passenger numbers and aircraft movements — has placed two steel spotting platforms in the public area of the airpo…
Łodygowice
On the bank of the Soła river, just below the outflow of Lake Międzybrodzkie, lies a beach that in summer becomes one of the most popular bathing spots of the Żywiec region. The tidy grassy slope descends to a sheltered cove, and the whole…
Będzin
Pogoria III is the best-known of the four Pogoria reservoirs in Dąbrowa Górnicza. Like the neighbouring lakes, it was created in flooded sand pits, where sand once used to be extracted for the backfilling of local coal mines. Today it is t…
Będzin
Kuźnica Warężyńska — colloquially Pogoria IV — is the largest reservoir of the Pogoria complex: 560 hectares of water stretching 8 km long and up to 3 km wide. It was created in 2005 on the site of a disused sand mine of the same name, mai…
Chudów
Sometimes called the "Masuria of Silesia", the Pojezierze Palowickie is a group of fish ponds in the valley of the Jesionka, north of Żory, between Szczejkowice and the village of Palowice, from which it takes its name. The waters lie with…
Siewierz
On a September weekend the town of Poręba smells of slow-roasted potatoes — this is where, in the northern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, a dish with the status of a regional treasure was born. Prażonki are potatoes roasted for hou…
Bystra
**Karkoszczonka (729 m)** is a deep pass in the main ridge of the Silesian Beskids, lying between Trzy Kopce (1,082 m) to the north and Beskidek (860 m) to the south. For centuries it has been the lowest and most convenient crossing betwee…
Soblówka
**Przegibek Pass (1,000 m)** lies in the Worek Raczański, part of the Wielka Racza group on the Polish-Slovak border, and has long attracted those who like mountain clearings with views. The grassy saddle, the PTTK mountain hut and a sheph…
Szczyrk
**Salmopol Pass (934 m)**, next to Kubalonka, is the most important road pass of the Silesian Beskids. Provincial road **942** runs through it, linking Wisła with Szczyrk and Bielsko-Biała — a route famous for its hairpin bends and sweepin…
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…
gmina Niegowa
The Raczyńscy Trout Farm in Złoty Potok, in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, has been operating for over **120 years** and is regarded as the oldest trout farm in Europe. It was founded in the 19th century by Count Edward Raczyński, who used…
gmina Niegowa
On the Poraj Reservoir — a dam reservoir on the Warta river created in **1978** south-west of Poraj — lies Bird Island, a natural refuge for water birds. It is best viewed from the side of the village of Kuźnica Stara in the commune of Por…
gmina Niegowa
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has two deserts: the well-known Błędowska Desert and the far more modest Siedlec Desert. The latter covers about **25 ha** in Siedlec near Złoty Potok, in the commune of Janów, a few kilometres from the Twardo…
Racibórz
A few minutes south of Racibórz, within the Cistercian Landscape Compositions of Rudy Landscape Park, lies one of the largest nature reserves of the Silesian Voivodeship — **477.38 ha** of ponds, riparian forests and oxbow lakes of the Ode…
gmina Niegowa
In a forest between Złoty Potok and Żarki hides one of the smallest reserves of the Jura: **Ostrężnik** covers only **4.1 ha**, was created in **1960**, and still holds a fragment of beech forest, a 14th-century stronghold and karst curios…
gmina Niegowa
The valley of the Wiercica stream in Złoty Potok is a place where nature meets literature and economic history. The „Parkowe” reserve was established on **3 September 1957**, and after enlargement in **2011** it covers **234.13 ha** of hil…
Tarnowskie Góry
On the border of Bytom and Tarnowskie Góry, at the top of **Srebrna Góra (347 m above sea level)**, grows a forest that owes its existence to mining. The „Segiet” reserve was designated on **27 April 1953** to protect beech woods that had…
Częstochowa
South of the Jura town of Olsztyn rises a chain of limestone hills — Sokola Góra, Pustelnica, Puchacz or Donica — covered with forest and honeycombed with caves. The „Sokole Góry” reserve was created in **1953**; after boundary corrections…
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…
Piekary Śląskie
In a small grove on the hill between Orzech and Świerklaniec stands a round stone tower that for generations has evoked associations with a medieval stronghold. In fact it is an **artificial ruin from the 19th century** — a garden structur…
Bielsko-Biała
The market square in Bielsko-Biała is a rectangular place, sloping eastwards, measuring **80 by 60 metres**, on the Town Hill (Wzgórze Miejskie) where the town of Bielsko was founded at the beginning of the **14th century**. The shape of t…
Cieszyn
The market square in Cieszyn is a rectangular place with a Baroque well and the town hall in the southern frontage, shaped at the end of the **15th century**, when Duke Casimir II of Cieszyn sold the town two houses intended for a new seat…