Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Żywiec
Through Jeleśnia and the neighbouring villages of the Żywiec region run **twelve marked cycling routes with a total length of 140 km**, signed with square plates showing a bicycle. The network includes asphalt roads, farm roads and forest…
Koniaków
On the edge of Jaworzynka, in the hamlet of Trzycatek near Koniaków and Istebna, the borders of three countries — Poland, Czechia and Slovakia — have met since **1 January 1993**. The tripoint came into being after the split of Czechoslova…
Cieszyn
Tuł (**621 m above sea level**) is a low but remarkably scenic summit in the Cieszyn Foothills, east of Leszna Górna, on the watershed between the Vistula and the Oder. You can approach it from Goleszów or Dzięgielów — an easy, pleasant ha…
Wyry
The Twinpigs American Amusement Park in Żory transports visitors into the world of the 19th-century Wild West, Mexico and Las Vegas. The park has been operating since **2012**, and after its expansion in **2020** it offers plenty of attrac…
Wisła
The Beskidy Culture Week is one of the largest folklore festivals in Poland, held since **1964** at the turn of July and August. For around **10 days**, stages in Wisła, Żywiec, Szczyrk, Istebna or Maków Podhalański fill with the music, da…
Częstochowa
Ulica 7 Kamienic is a historic little street in Częstochowa running right next to the Jasna Góra monastery along the Stanisław Staszic Park. Its name comes from the seven townhouses erected at the beginning of the **19th century**, and in…
Katowice
Uroczysko Buczyna on the south-western edge of Chorzów is a forest of over **65 ha**, designated a nature-landscape complex in **December 2001**. It is a fragment of the protective forest belt of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region which,…
gmina Niegowa
A living museum of the Middle Ages in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, run by a couple of history enthusiasts — Justyna and Janusz Nowak. The house rule is simple: everything can be touched. Visitors put on an armour and a dress sewn by the…
Tarnowskie Góry
On an island in the middle of the Zielona Reservoir in Kalety stands a wooden windmill — a former mill, today one of the most recognisable structures of the Tarnowskie Góry area. Water on all sides and trees around the building make it loo…
Soblówka
Wielka Racza (**1,236 m**) is the highest peak of the Wielka Racza group in the Żywiec-Kysuce Beskids, on the main ridge that here forms the Polish-Slovak border and the Main European Watershed. The summit is completely forested, but the t…
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…
Istebna
On the summit of Barania Góra, the second highest peak of the Silesian Beskids (**1,215 m above sea level**), stands a **15-metre** steel observation tower. Built in the 1990s as the first structure of this kind in the whole range, it hold…
Chałupki
In Zabełków, a village in the municipality of Krzyżanowice on the south-western edge of the Silesian Voivodeship, a **27-metre** steel observation tower was erected in **2017**. It rises above the protected area of the Border Meanders of t…
Rzyki
On the southern slope of Smrekowica, at about **700 m above sea level**, the Dusica stream falls over a rocky ledge, forming **the largest waterfall in the Little Beskids**: it is **5 metres** high and **4 metres** wide. The name comes fro…
Wisła
In Wisła Czarne, on the right side of the road leading towards Lake Czerniańskie, the Biała Wisełka stream falls over a tall ledge: this is an **8-metre waterfall**, one of the best-known objects of its kind in the Silesian Beskids. It was…
Zawoja
Korbielów in the Jeleśnia commune is the winter capital of Pilsko — a peak rising to **1557 m**, whose main summit lies on the Slovak side, in the Żywiec-Orawa Beskids. Apart from Kasprowy Wierch, this is the highest alpine ski area in Pol…
Tarnowskie Góry
In Żyglin — part of the town of Miasteczko Śląskie in the Tarnowskie Góry county — an unusual natural feature hides on Przygodna street with no sign or fence: a sand dune. At the beginning of the 20th century it was still massive, but over…
gmina Niegowa
Beneath the sanctuary of Our Lady of Leśniów, Patroness of Families, in Żarki-Leśniów, in a historic cellar with arched vaults from the early **20th century**, a fossil and mineral exhibition is on display. The collection numbers about **1…
Bytom
Żabie Doły is a legally protected landscape complex of **226.2 hectares** on the border of Bytom, Chorzów and Piekary Śląskie. The former tailings ponds of the Orzeł Biały mining and smelting works have become one of the most important hav…
Rudy
At 1 Szkolna Street in Rudy, a few minutes from the Cistercian abbey, awaits one of the more interesting monuments of engineering in Upper Silesia: the former narrow-gauge railway station, which still works like a living open-air museum —…
Wisła
On the edge of the spa Park Kopczyński in the centre of Wisła, right by the Moon Boulevard laid out over the river, stands an open-air gallery: **10 miniatures** of the most important buildings from towns on the Vistula, made of coloured g…
Częstochowa
Just below Jasna Góra, in the Park im. Staszica in Częstochowa, stands a single-storey brick cottage that looks as if it had been moved here from the countryside. In fact it is the Peasant Homestead — a site of the Częstochowa Museum, buil…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A few hundred metres from the Pszczyna market square and castle, on the Wild Promenade of the Pszczyna Historic Park, operates the Bison Show Farm — a place where the history of saving Europe’s largest land mammal can be observed from a fe…
gmina Pilica
A few minutes' walk from the market square in Pilica, in the central part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, spreads the Pilica reservoir — a small body of water that operates in summer as a swimming area guarded by WOPR lifeguards, and in…