Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Częstochowa
Between Poraj, Żarki-Letnisko and Masłońskie, in the eastern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stretches the Poraj reservoir, also known as Lake Porajskie. Its surface of more than **5.5 km²**, nearly 5 km in length and about 15 km of…
Rudy
In the north-western part of Rybnik spreads the Rybnik reservoir, known as the **Rybnik Sea** — a seven-kilometre-long reservoir on the Ruda river, created for the Rybnik Power Plant. The plant turned out to be an unexpected blessing for t…
Częstochowa
Right by the bed of the Warta river, not far from the Rock of Love (Skała Miłości), lies the Tasarki reservoir — a small artificial pond in Mstów that turns into a municipal swimming area in summer and serves walkers the rest of the year.…
Tarnowskie Góry
In Zielona, the eastern district of Kalety, the Mała Panew river spreads into two reservoirs linked by an embankment — the Zielona reservoir. The area, called the forest nook of Silesia, combines mining history with recreation: the smaller…
Wyry
On the edge of the Pszczyna Forest, on the south-western shore of Lake Paprocańskie in Kobiór near Tychy, stands the Promnice hunting lodge — a Neo-Gothic residence of the Dukes of Pszczyna, today a hotel with the Książęca restaurant. Desp…
Podzamcze
Zamek Legend i Strachów in Podzamcze, next to the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle, is an indoor attraction based on legends from the Kraków-Częstochowa Jura. The route leads through a horror-themed set featuring characters such as the black d…
Bielsko-Biała
In the eastern part of the Old Town of Bielsko-Biała stands the oldest and largest historic building of the city: a castle whose foundations were laid by the **dukes of Cieszyn**. The stronghold was erected in the **second half of the 14th…
Zamarski
Tucked among trees on the road from Jastrzębie-Zdrój to Cieszyn, the castle in Kończyce Małe is sometimes called the Wawel of Cieszyn Silesia — a name it owes to its representative arcaded courtyard, found in no other seat of the Cieszyn n…
Toszek
Lubliniec Castle stands almost in the very centre of town, and although its present form is the result of modern renovation, its history goes back to the end of the 13th century, when a stronghold of the Dukes of Opole stood here. Today it…
Olkusz
On a low hill in Sławków, in the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie region, lie the ruins of the castle of the Kraków bishops — one of the oldest brick defensive castles in southern Poland. The **13th-century** stronghold was forgotten for centuries, and…
Krzyżanowice
In the northern part of Tworków, among the trees of the former park, rises the tower of the palace — today an extensive ruin topped by a viewing terrace. The first castle was probably raised here in the **14th century**, and the shape visi…
Istebna
In the Wisła Czarne district, by Lake Czerniańskie, stands a castle built in **1929–1931** to a design by Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz — a gift from the people of Silesia to President Ignacy Mościcki, handed over in **1931** together with honorary…
Łodygowice
On the Soła river, at the foot of the Little Beskids, an embankment with a clay core closes Lake Żywieckie. The Tresna Dam was built from local materials — thick-bedded sandstones and gravel — and completed in **1966**. Its crest is **300…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The highest point of Góra Żar in the Little Beskids looks as if someone had scraped off its summit and replaced it with a sheet of water — and that is exactly how this mountain was made. On the top, at about **750 m above sea level**, lies…
Piekary Śląskie
Between Tarnowskie Góry and Piekary Śląskie the Brynica river unexpectedly spreads into a broad body of water whose shores link Świerklaniec, Kozłowa Góra and Wymysłów. The Kozłowa Góra Reservoir, also known as Lake Świerklanieckie, was no…
Żywiec
It was not the Podhale region but Żywiecczyzna that was the cradle of Carpathian banditry — and this is precisely the thesis displayed by the Zbójnicki Szlak, also known as the Carpathian Outlaws Trail. It is a historical and cultural heri…
gmina Pilica
Above the treetops of the Wodąca Valley rise the white walls of the Zegarowe Skały — one of the most distinctive groups of limestone rocks in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The rocks lie between Smoleń and Złożeniec in the Pilica commune,…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In Jankowice near Pszczyna, in the middle of the Pszczyna forests, the Bison Breeding and Forest Education Centre runs a demonstration enclosure open free of charge. On **10 hectares** — a pasture at the front and forest at the back — live…
Rzyki
In Ślemień, in the heart of the Żywiec region, the Żywiec Ethnographic Park was opened in **August 2012** — an open-air museum recreating the layout and buildings of a village of the Żywiec Beskids. On more than **6 hectares** by the road…
Soblówka
The Żywiec Landscape Park, established on **13 March 1986**, is the oldest large-scale nature protection area in the Silesian Voivodeship. It covers **35,870 hectares** of the highest parts of the Żywiec Beskids along the Slovak border, fr…