Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Kraków
**St Mary’s Basilica in Kraków** stands beside the Main Market Square and is one of the city’s most recognisable symbols. The Gothic church is known for Veit Stoss’s altarpiece, the hourly hejnał trumpet call and its rich furnishings. It r…
Smołdzino
Słowiński National Park is the only place in Poland where a desert landscape meets the Baltic: shifting dunes, nicknamed the Polish Sahara, reach 30 metres in height and creep 3–10 metres every year, burying the pine forests behind them. T…
Bochnia
**The Bochnia Salt Mine** is Poland’s oldest salt mine, operating since the deposit was discovered in 1248. Its underground route leads through chambers and workings that preserve traces of centuries of mining. Signature elements include a…
Zakopane
The Tatra National Park covers almost the entire Polish part of the Tatras — the only mountains of Alpine character between the Alps and the Caucasus. Though the range occupies just 2% of Poland's area, you will find everything associated…
gmina Węgorzewo
Mamry is one of the most distinctive bodies of water in northern Masuria: a broad system of connected lakes, bays, peninsulas and islands. It suits visitors who want to sail, kayak or simply experience the Great Masurian Lakes from the sho…
Kraków
Wawel is a limestone hill on the Vistula that for centuries served as the heart of the Polish state: an early medieval stronghold of the Vistulan tribe stood here, kings later resided on the hill, and monarchs were crowned and buried in th…
Kraków
The Royal Castle on Wawel Hill was the principal residence of Poland's monarchs and is today one of the country's most important museums. The stronghold's origins go back to the 11th century, and its Renaissance shape with the arcaded cour…
Warszawa
St John’s Archcathedral Basilica at 8 Świętojańska Street is one of Warsaw’s most important churches. Its history reaches back to the Middle Ages; after the destruction of the Warsaw Uprising it was rebuilt in a historicising Mazovian Goth…
Augustów
The Augustów Canal is a historic waterway linking the Vistula and Neman basins. It was built between 1824 and 1839 to create an alternative to shipping on the Vistula. Today the canal is 103.4 km long, crosses Poland and Belarus, and its l…
Zawoja
Babia Góra, specifically Diablak (1,725 m above sea level), is the highest peak of the Żywiec Beskids and the whole Western Beskids. Its open summit offers wide views, but the massif is also known for sudden weather changes, fog and strong…
Bereżki
Bieszczady National Park protects the alpine meadows, mountain forests and valleys of south-eastern Poland. It is a destination for demanding hikes and wide panoramas. Mountain weather changes quickly, and some routes cross exposed ridges.…
gmina Gryfino
Just outside Gryfino, near the Dolna Odra power plant, grows Pomerania's strangest grove: dozens of pines whose trunks, barely a dozen or so centimetres above the ground, bend at almost a right angle before climbing straight towards the sk…
Czerna
Hidden among wooded hills on the edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland lies Czerna, a Discalced Carmelite monastery founded in 1629 by Agnieszka Firlejowa née Tęczyński, widow of the Kraków voivode. The church went up between 1631 and 1640…
Gdańsk
**St Mary’s Basilica in Gdańsk** is one of the world’s largest brick churches and one of the key monuments of the Main Town. Built in stages between 1346 and 1502, it contains a vast, austere interior with works from the Gothic, Renaissanc…
Kraków
Nowa Huta is a town built from scratch — Poland’s largest exercise in socialist-realist urban planning and one of the few such vast projects in Europe. Construction began in 1949 for the workers of a new metallurgical combine; the Lenin St…
Katowice
The „flying saucer” at Rondo Gen. Jerzego Ziętka is the most recognisable building in Katowice and one of the boldest landmarks of Polish modernism. This sports and entertainment hall, shaped like an inverted truncated cone covered with al…
gmina Międzyzdroje
Wolin National Park is Poland’s only national park located entirely on an island: it covers almost 11,000 hectares in the west-central part of Wolin, between the Pomeranian Bay and the Szczecin Lagoon. The park’s showpieces are its cliffs…
Zawoja
Babia Góra National Park protects the Babia Góra massif and Diablak (1,725 m), the highest peak of the Żywiec Beskids and the entire Western Beskids. The park was established in 1954, and in 1976 the area joined UNESCO’s Man and the Biosph…
Osowiec-Twierdza
Biebrza National Park is Poland's largest national park and one of Europe's most important wetland areas. Vast marshes, peatlands, floodplains and the winding Biebrza River create a landscape that rewards slow travel. It is ideal for birdw…
Warszawa
**Sigismund III Vasa Column** on Castle Square is Warsaw’s oldest secular monument and one of its most recognisable symbols. It was erected in 1643–1644 on the initiative of King Władysław IV in memory of his father, Sigismund III Vasa. Th…
Warszawa
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews stands in Muranów — the pre-war Jewish district that was home to Europe's largest Jewish community outside New York — directly opposite the Ghetto Heroes Monument. Opened in 2013 in a building by…
Izabelin C
Kampinos National Park protects the Kampinos Forest right next to Warsaw. It is a distinctive landscape of inland dunes, wetlands, pine forests and damp meadows, included with its surroundings in the UNESCO biosphere-reserve network. The p…
Chorzów
The Silesian Stadium is an arena with a personality of its own. Built between 1951 and 1956 in the middle of Silesian Park, it has played first fiddle in Polish sport from the very beginning, and after the thorough reconstruction of 2009–2…
Smołdzino
Lake Łebsko is Poland’s largest coastal lake and the country’s third largest by surface area. Covering about 71.4 km², it lies inside Słowiński National Park between the moving dunes of the Łebska Spit and extensive wetlands. Its shallow,…