Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Chorzów
Staw Rzęsa in Siemianowice Śląskie may look unassuming, yet it is the largest pond in the city and one of the most interesting natural sites in Upper Silesia. It spreads in the heart of Bażantarnia, a family recreation zone crossed by walk…
gmina Niegowa
In the Parkowe reserve in Złoty Potok, among old trees of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, spreads the Green Pond. Its literary name, Sen Nocy Letniej (A Midsummer Night's Dream), was given by the poet Zygmunt Krasiński, who stayed in these…
Tarnowskie Góry
North of Połomia, a farming village in the commune of Tworóg, stretch two groups of ponds: the better-kept Szkarotkowe Ponds and the wilder, partly dried-up Wesoła Ponds to the west. No asphalt road leads to them — the car is left by the b…
Istebna
At **760 m above sea level**, on a broad meadow sloping towards the Olza valley, lies Stecówka — a part of Istebna in the Silesian Beskids, named after the surname Stec, presumably the first settler on this land. Documents in the Cieszyn a…
Częstochowa
On the Warta river, at the northern edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Mstów reminds visitors that between **1279 and 1870** it held town status. Just south of the centre, on the Ściegna hill (**281 m a.s.l.**), stand the ruins of hist…
gmina Niegowa
In the middle of Żarki, a town in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland with town rights from before **1382**, behind the parish church and the marketplace stands a complex of historic barns. The old townscape was so tight that farmers could not b…
Wisła
Stożek Wielki (978 m) is a summit in the Czantoria Range, built of Godula sandstone with a regular, conical shape that gave it its name and makes it appear higher than it is. The western, northern and eastern slopes fall steeply, while to…
Bydlin
Near Ryczów, not far from Ogrodzieniec Castle, limestone outcrops known as the Straszykowe Rocks, sometimes called scarecrow rocks, gather on the top of Straszykowa Hill. The hill, reaching almost **500 m above sea level**, is among the hi…
gmina Niegowa
On the top of Zamkowa rock, north of the buildings of Łutowiec in the commune of Niegowa, faint remains of a medieval watchtower have survived. Of the masonry stronghold a section of wall **0.6 metres** thick and **4.5 metres** long remain…
gmina Niegowa
Between the castles of Bobolice and Olsztyn, on the top of a solitary rock around **400 m above sea level**, a defensive watchtower was erected in **1370–1391**, whose remains lie near the village of Suliszowice in the commune of Żarki. Th…
Katowice
Between Spodek and the centre of Katowice, on the site of the former Katowice coal mine, a district has grown that changed the image of the city: the Culture Zone. At its central point rises the tower of the Warszawa II mine shaft, around…
gmina Niegowa
In August, the quiet Lelów, a former royal town in the Częstochowa county, turns for three days into a capital of two dishes baked all night long. The Festival of Ciulim and Czulent is a festival of Polish and Jewish culture, recalling the…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
**1,060 kilometres** of routes and **93 historic wooden landmarks** make up the Silesian section of the Wooden Architecture Trail, created through the cooperation of the Silesia, Małopolska and Subcarpathian voivodeships. Churches, chapels…
gmina Niegowa
A town heritage route of **six stops** runs from Koziegłowska Street to the Old Market Square in Żarki, telling the story of the town’s Jewish community, which for centuries helped shape this town in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. A walk w…
Chałupki
A route of **thirty-four towers and viewing platforms** on both sides of the Polish-Czech border in the Silesia Euroregion: **eleven objects in Poland and twenty-three in the Czech Republic**. The project joins dozens of municipalities, an…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A culinary route run by the Silesian Tourist Organisation since **2012**, promoting the food heritage of the Silesian voivodeship. In **2013** it received the Polish Tourist Organisation Certificate as the best Polish tourism product. **Tw…
Zabrze
A car-based thematic route past **forty sites** of industrial heritage in the Silesian voivodeship: mines, breweries, energy, railway, communications and food industry landmarks. It is run by the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze. The most valu…
Piekary Śląskie
Piekary Śląskie, a city with county rights in the heart of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region, links five waymarked hiking trails. They run through places central to the region's history: traces of the march of John III Sobieski's hussar…
Częstochowa
In the Jura town of Olsztyn, about 15 km south-east of Częstochowa, an all-year moving nativity scene carved from linden wood has been built for over a decade by the local artist Jan Wewiór. Known as Jurajskie Betlejemowo (the Jura Bethleh…
Katowice
Every December since about **1908**, the basilica of Katowice-Panewniki has hosted one of the largest Christmas nativity scenes in Poland — practically since the church was built. The crib first stood in the right side of the temple; since…
Piekary Śląskie
On the Rajski Plac beside the basilica in Piekary Śląskie — the heart of the Sanctuary of Social Justice and Love, one of Upper Silesia's foremost Marian shrines — a Christmas display known as Piekarskie Betlejem (the Bethlehem of Piekary)…
Gliwice
The Maciej Shaft in Zabrze's Maciejów district is a fully preserved complex of the former Concordia mine (later Pstrowski), now open to visitors as a site on the Industrial Monuments Route. Early twentieth-century buildings, the winding to…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The year-round luge track on the northern slope of Góra Żar (**761 m above sea level**) ranks among the most spectacular rides in the Little Beskids. The route consists of a dozen or so profiled ramps and bends at fairly sharp angles, and…
Podzamcze
At the foot of the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle in Podzamcze, on the slopes of Góra Zamkowa — the highest hill of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (**515.5 m above sea level**) — the River Splash luge track has been operating since **2014**.…