Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Siewierz
Koziegłowy, today a small town in the Myszków county, owe their shape to a medieval town charter from the **14th century**. Its heart remains the market square, which for most of its history changed neither its building lines nor its funct…
Częstochowa
A square at the foot of the castle hill in a small town on the Trail of the Eagles' Nests, about **15 km** south-east of Częstochowa. After revitalisation the once quiet market square became the town's calling card — the ruins of the **13t…
gmina Pilica
A square laid out in the **14th century** when the town was chartered, preserving to this day a typical medieval spatial layout — the streets radiate from the corners of the square, and a Gothic parish church stands by one of them. Its chi…
gmina Niegowa
Plac Kazimierza Wielkiego in a small town chartered on **15 March 1369** under Środa (Magdeburg-derived) law. In studies of towns degraded by the tsarist reform of 1869–1870, the Przyrów square scored the highest degree of urbanity after K…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A spacious square of the medieval urban layout, ringed by carefully restored town houses from the **18th and 19th centuries**. The northern frontage holds the Neo-Renaissance town hall — the seat of the town authorities for three centuries…
Racibórz
The market square has been Racibórz’s central place since the Middle Ages, though its present look tells a more complicated story than most Silesian old towns. Wartime destruction consumed almost all of the original buildings, and today’s…
Siewierz
Siewierz received its town charter around **1276** and for centuries was the capital of its own duchy ruled by the bishops of Kraków. The market square, laid out at the town’s founding, still keeps the size of the medieval place — today vo…
Zamarski
Skoczów is one of the oldest towns in Cieszyn Silesia, and its quadrilateral market square, with streets leaving from the corners, has kept its medieval layout. Most townhouses date from the second half of the **18th and the 19th century**…
Olkusz
The market square of Sławków is the heart of a Jura town on the edge of the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie coal basin — calm, rarely crowded, and hiding a monument that almost no other square in Poland can boast. Eight centuries of trade and mining h…
Tarnowskie Góry
The market square of Tarnowskie Góry took shape in the **second half of the 16th century** and has the form of an irregular trapezoid — the gwarki, silver and lead miners, built houses around mine shafts, not along a planned grid. Two shaf…
Brenna
The market square in Ustroń looks nothing like the squares of most Polish towns. There are no medieval townhouses or merchant arcades, because it was created only after the site of the former bus station was revitalised. Today it is a mode…
Wisła
The market square in Wisła is in fact Plac Bogumiła Hoffa — the town's central square, shaped in the interwar period, when Wisła was becoming a fashionable mountain resort in the Silesian Beskids. The arcaded frontage was built in the 1930…
Żywiec
The market square in Żywiec is the main square of a town in the Żywiec Basin, located a little west of the Habsburg castle. It is surrounded by townhouses dominated by the town hall, and after a recent revitalisation cars have disappeared…
Soblówka
Rysianka (1,322 m) is a peak in the Lipowski Wierch and Romanka group of the Żywiec Beskids. It rises above three valleys — the streams of Żabniczanka, Bystra and Sopotnia — and joins three ridges, which makes it one of the region's more i…
Tarnowskie Góry
Bearded miners with a lamp in hand have been appearing across Tarnowskie Góry since 2013. The gwarek statues were unveiled year after year, and by December 2024 **twelve** of them stood in public spaces, from the market square to distant d…
Zabrze
Several cat figures have taken up residence in the public spaces of Ruda Śląska. The first one arrived in September **2014** on Jan Paweł II square in Nowy Bytom, right by the city hall. Later ones went to Wirek, next to the library, and t…
Częstochowa
In the southern wing of the Jasna Góra monastery operates a chamber that once served as a royal throne room. The **Knights Hall**, built in **1647–1649**, was formerly called the Hall of Disputes and still plays a representative role — mon…
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…
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…
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…
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…