Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
54 places
Będzin
Pogoria is a group of artificial reservoirs in Dąbrowa Górnicza, created in former sand pits that supplied backfill for coal mines. Pogoria III has the strongest recreational character: its beach, water sports, walking routes and cycling a…
Siewierz
The Przeczycki Reservoir, also known as Przeczyce or the Przeczycko-Siewierski Reservoir, was created in 1963 by damming the Czarna Przemsza. It lies in the Siewierz and Mierzęcice municipalities, near Przeczyce and Sarnów. The reservoir s…
Kartuzy
Lake Przywidzkie Wielkie, also known as Przywidzkie Duże, lies in the Przywidz municipality about 35 km south-west of Gdańsk. Forested hills of the Kashubian Lake District create an intimate landscape, while the village of Przywidz provide…
Wytrzyszczka
Lake Rożnowskie, also known as the Rożnów Reservoir, is a dammed lake on the Dunajec river in Lesser Poland, completed in **1941**. Stretching for over a dozen kilometres through the Rożnów Foothills, it is one of the most popular sailing…
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Sopot
Orłowo Pier stretches 180 metres into the Bay of Gdańsk from one of the most distinctive parts of Gdynia’s coastline. From the wooden walkway you can look towards the sea, the beach and Orłowo Cliff, while just a few steps away the distric…
Wrocław
Grunwald Bridge is one of the most recognisable features of Wrocław’s cityscape and an interesting monument of engineering in its own right. It was built between 1908 and 1910 to connect the city centre with the expanding eastern districts…
Wyry
Lake Paprocańskie in the southern part of Tychy is an artificial reservoir of remarkable pedigree: it was created in **1796** for the needs of the **Paprocany ironworks** — it served to cool the furnace casing and to power the blowers and…
Augustów
The municipal beach in Augustów lies on Lake Necko, right where the Netta river leaves the lake — the same river that further on turns into the Augustów Canal. Founded in **1557** and named after King Sigismund Augustus, the town sits amon…
Łodygowice
On the bank of the Soła river, just below the outflow of Lake Międzybrodzkie, lies a beach that in summer becomes one of the most popular bathing spots of the Żywiec region. The tidy grassy slope descends to a sheltered cove, and the whole…
Będzin
Pogoria III is the best-known of the four Pogoria reservoirs in Dąbrowa Górnicza. Like the neighbouring lakes, it was created in flooded sand pits, where sand once used to be extracted for the backfilling of local coal mines. Today it is t…
Będzin
Kuźnica Warężyńska — colloquially Pogoria IV — is the largest reservoir of the Pogoria complex: 560 hectares of water stretching 8 km long and up to 3 km wide. It was created in 2005 on the site of a disused sand mine of the same name, mai…
Chudów
Sometimes called the "Masuria of Silesia", the Pojezierze Palowickie is a group of fish ponds in the valley of the Jesionka, north of Żory, between Szczejkowice and the village of Palowice, from which it takes its name. The waters lie with…
Bytom
In the north-western part of Świętochłowice, in the Lipinki valley on the border with Bytom, lies Staw Ajska, the largest body of water in this urban dale. The surroundings bear clear marks of an industrial past: red-brown post-mining and…
gmina Niegowa
On Majora Wrzoska street, a few hundred metres from the market square of Złoty Potok in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, spreads Staw Amerykan. In summer the pond turns into a family bathing spot with a promenade, small restaurants with roof…
Tarnowskie Góry
In the forest near Miasteczko Śląskie, about **3 kilometres** from the Nakło-Chechło reservoir, hides Gierzyna. It is in fact several smaller ponds connected by a stream and backwaters, protected as an ecological site. The place remains qu…
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…
Rabsztyn
At the foot of the northern slope of Rudnica hill, on the edge of the Błędów Desert in Klucze, lie two ponds: Green and Red. Both formed in old excavations left after iron ore mining, flooded with water once the activity ended. Water in th…
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…
Stara Wieś
Below the walls of Byczyna, on the small Pratwa river, spreads the Biskupice-Brzózki retention reservoir — a **42-hectare** body of water with wooden piers, a walkway over the water and a reconstructed early-medieval stronghold on the shor…
Jałówka
Among the forests of the Knyszyn Forest (Puszcza Knyszyńska), on the outskirts of Czarna Białostocka, lies the Czapielówka reservoir — a small body of water that serves as a bathing spot in summer and a destination for walkers and anglers…
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…
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…