Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
357 places
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…
gmina Niegowa
Among the forests of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, on the edge of Żarki, stands the Pauline monastery complex with the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Leśniów, Patroness of Families. The core of the complex is a church from **1610**, built in a…
Strzelno
Licheń Stary, a village in eastern Greater Poland in the Ślesin municipality, is the address of the largest church in Poland and one of the largest in the world. The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, built as a votive offering of the Catholi…
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…
Pińczów
Pińczów divides into two centres: the Renaissance market square and the humbler **Mirów**, a former small town with its own church. The church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is today at once a parish church, home to the Franc…
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…
Podzamcze
On the road from Ogrodzieniec to Pilica, in Podzamcze about **2 km** from Ogrodzieniec Castle, stands the chapel of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rock. The cult began in **1818**, when a resident of Podzamcze saw an image of the Blessed…
Zawiercie
Skarżyce, a separate village until 1977 and today a district of Zawiercie, hide one of the more interesting monuments of the Jura: the church of the Most Holy Trinity with three round chapels symbolising God in three persons. Since **1999*…
gmina Pilica
North of the Pilica market square, in the Biskupice district, stands a monastic complex that has shaped the town's image for over **280 years**. The baroque, single-storey, quadrilateral Franciscan monastery with the church of the Most Hol…
Częstochowa
Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, the monastery of the Pauline Fathers on a hill of the same name, is the most important pilgrimage centre of Polish Catholics and one of the principal Marian shrines. In **1994** the complex was declared a Histori…
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…
Rydzyna
On a hill in Głogówko, a settlement located 1.5 km east of Gostyń in the Gostyń county, stands the baroque monastery complex of the Filippini with the basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Philip Neri. The church,…
Szydłów
In Pacanów, a town in the Ponidzie region known for Koziołek Matołek, stands the church of St Martin — the Sanctuary of the Dying Christ, raised in **2008** by Benedict XVI to the dignity of a minor basilica. The parish history reaches bac…
gmina Niegowa
In Aleksandrówka, a village in the commune of Przyrów in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the baroque church of Saint Anne modelled on the basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua. The temple with a high tower holds two chapels, of Saint Fr…
Kłodzko
Above the Nysa Kłodzka river, at the foot of the Bardzkie Mountains, rises the Cistercian basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary — the heart of the metropolitan sanctuary of Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith. The baroque churc…
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…
Przeworsk
In Jodłówka, a village in the commune of Pruchnik in the Jarosław county, on St Mary's Hill, amid fields and stately trees, stands the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Consolation. The village lies 4 km from Pruchnik, on the western outskirts of t…
Siewierz
In Koziegłówki, a village in the commune of Koziegłowy in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the church of Saint Anthony of Padua — a sanctuary distinguished by architecture rarely seen in the Jura. The church was built in the years **1…
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…
Częstochowa
The tower over one hundred metres tall is the most recognisable element of the monastery on Jasna Góra and one of the trademarks of Częstochowa. The white structure can be seen from afar, also by pilgrims heading for the sanctuary that the…
Kraków
Hejnalica, the taller of the two towers of St. Mary’s Basilica, rises more than **80 metres** above the Main Market Square and ranks among the most recognisable symbols of Kraków. It is crowned by a late-Gothic spire with a gilded crown. I…