Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
357 places
Bohoniki
In the Podlaskie village of Bohoniki stands one of the oldest active mosques in Poland — a wooden mosque built most probably in **1873**, in a village inhabited since the 17th century by descendants of Tatar settlers. Next to it lies the m…
Poznań
**Poznań Fara**, the collegiate church and basilica on Gołębia Street, is one of Poland’s most important Baroque monuments. Its full dedication is to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Mary Magdalene and St Stanislaus. A few steps from the Old…
Jawor
**The Church of Peace in Jawor** is one of the two surviving Churches of Peace in Silesia and part of the UNESCO entry covering Jawor and Świdnica. The timber church was built in 1654–1655 to a design by Albrecht von Säbisch. Its restraine…
Supraśl
The monastery founded in **1501** by Aleksander Chodkiewicz, voivode of Nowogrudok, is Supraśl's foremost monument and one of the key centres of Orthodox Christianity in Poland. King Alexander Jagiellon confirmed the foundation in **1504**…
Kraków
The Reform synagogue at **24 Miodowa Street** in Kazimierz is one of the four still active synagogues of Kraków. Built between **1860 and 1862** to a design by Ignacy Hercok, it served from the outset as the main house of prayer for the ci…
Kudowa-Zdrój
The **Skull Chapel in Czermna**, a district of Kudowa-Zdrój, is a Baroque ossuary and a place of remembrance for people who died in wars and epidemics. Thousands of human skulls and bones cover the chapel’s interior, while many more remain…
Przemyśl
**The Roman Catholic Archcathedral in Przemyśl**, dedicated to St John the Baptist and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is one of the city’s most important landmarks. Its story includes a Gothic presbytery, Baroque rebuilding and…
Kraków
At **40 Szeroka Street** stands the second oldest synagogue in Kraków — the Renaissance Remuh Synagogue, built by the merchant and royal banker Israel ben Josef in honour of his wife Malka. Originally called the “New” synagogue, it now bea…
Dębno
## St Michael the Archangel Church in Dębno The church in Dębno Podhalańskie, at 42 Kościelna Street, is one of Poland’s best-preserved Gothic wooden churches. The present building was erected in the second half of the 15th century using h…
Sandomierz
**The Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz** is a Gothic church on Cathedral Hill and one of the city’s most valuable landmarks. Its interior combines the foundation of Casimir the Great, later Baroqu…
Trzęsacz
All that remains of the Gothic church of St Nicholas in Trzęsacz is a 12-metre stretch of wall, 6 metres high, standing on the edge of the cliff. The church, built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, originally stood about **2 km f…
Lublin
Lublin Archcathedral, dedicated to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist, is a former Jesuit church and one of the city’s most important sacred monuments. It was built in 1586–1604 to a design by Jan Maria Bernardoni, partly inspi…
Białystok
The Cathedral of St Nicholas the Wonderworker on Lipowa Street is Białystok’s main Orthodox church and one of the defining landmarks of the city centre. The present masonry building was erected in 1843–1846 in the late Byzantine style. ##…
Kraków
**The Camaldolese Hermitage at Bielany** stands on a hill in Kraków’s Wolski Forest. Its white walls and church towers form a distinctive view above the Vistula valley, but this is not a museum: monks still live here according to an eremit…
Tykocin
The **Great Synagogue in Tykocin** is a masonry house of prayer from the first half of the **17th century** — today the second largest and one of the oldest surviving synagogues in Poland. Its square structure, measuring **18 by 18 metres*…
Smolnik
The wooden Church of St Michael the Archangel in Smolnik is one of the best-preserved examples of Boyko sacred architecture in the Polish Bieszczady Mountains. Built in 1791, it was added in 2013 to the UNESCO transnational entry “Wooden T…
Legnica
**The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Legnica** is one of the most important historic buildings in the city centre. Its history reaches back to the early 13th century, while the present structure combines medieval origins with a Neo-…
Kraków
**Mogiła Cistercian Abbey** forms part of Kraków’s Nowa Huta district, but its history reaches back to 1222. The Cistercians came here from Lubiąż at the initiative of Bishop Iwo Odrowąż. The Gothic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin M…
Białystok
The modernist **St. Roch's Basilica** on the hill of the same name in Białystok was built as a **monument to the Regaining of Independence**. Construction began in **1927** to a design by **Oskar Sosnowski**, chosen in a repeated competiti…
Białystok
The Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Białystok’s Wysoki Stoczek district is one of the two largest Orthodox churches in Poland. Its monumental two-level form stands out with five domes and a bright concrete-and-brick exterior. This is…
Katowice
**The Archcathedral of Christ the King in Katowice** is a monumental church in the southern part of the city centre and one of Katowice’s most distinctive buildings. It was designed as a cathedral in the 20th century, and its classicising…
Olsztyn
**The Co-cathedral Basilica of St James the Apostle in Olsztyn** is the city’s oldest surviving sacred monument and one of the symbols of its Old Town. The red-brick, three-aisled church was built around the turn of the 14th and 15th centu…
Wąchock
**Wąchock Cistercian Abbey** is one of Poland’s finest examples of Romanesque architecture. It was founded in 1179 by Gedeon, Bishop of Kraków, and monks arrived from Morimond. Bands of differently coloured sandstone, the austere church an…
Kraków
**St Barbara’s Church in Kraków** stands beside St Mary’s Square, directly behind St Mary’s Basilica. Often called St Mary’s younger sister, this Gothic church began as a cemetery chapel and now combines a medieval structure with a rich Ba…