Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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Kraków
**Kościuszko Mound in Kraków** is one of the city’s best-known viewpoints. It was raised between 1820 and 1823 on St Bronisława Hill as a monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko. It rises about 34 metres above the hill, and its earth includes soil…
Kraków
**Wanda Mound in Kraków** stands in Nowa Huta, by Ujastek Street. This modest mound, about 14 metres high, is one of the city’s oldest and probably dates from the early Middle Ages. Legend says it is the grave of Wanda, daughter of Prince…
Bugaj
In **1600** the Kraków voivode **Mikołaj Zebrzydowski** founded the first chapel on Mount Żar, following a model brought from Jerusalem a year earlier. Today **42 chapels and churches** stand across an area of **6 km²**, linked by paths wi…
Kraków
**Kraków's first baroque building** rises in the middle of Grodzka Street — it was constructed between **1597 and 1619** for the Jesuits with funding from **Sigismund III Vasa**. The dolomite facade was modelled on Rome's Santa Susanna, an…
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
**The only calvary in the world on the UNESCO World Heritage List** operates in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: a basilica and a Bernardine monastery plus **42 chapels and churches** scattered across the wooded slopes of Mount Żar. Locals call it t…
Kraków
Collegium Maius at 15 Jagiellońska Street is the oldest surviving building of Jagiellonian University and the home of the UJ Museum. The Gothic complex centres on an arcaded courtyard and preserves the Libraria, professors’ dining room, tr…
Kraków
**Kazimierz in Kraków** is a historic district between the Old Town and the Vistula, known for centuries of coexistence between Christian and Jewish traditions. The former town, chartered in 1335, retains its own urban layout, squares, chu…
Kraków
**Corpus Christi Basilica in Kraków’s Kazimierz district** is a Gothic-Baroque church of the Canons Regular of the Lateran and one of the neighbourhood’s most important landmarks. Its foundation is associated with Casimir the Great around…
Kraków
On the Main Market Square stands one of the oldest masonry churches in Kraków — St. Adalbert's, with walls dating from the 11th century. It was built when a trade route still ran through this spot, which is why today you descend into it fr…
Kraków
At **24 Szeroka Street** stands the oldest preserved synagogue in Poland and one of the most valuable monuments of Jewish sacral architecture in Europe. This Gothic-Renaissance, two-aisled hall served as the main synagogue of Kraków's Jewi…
Kraków
**Piłsudski Mound in Kraków** stands on Sowiniec, in the heart of Wolski Forest. It is about 35 metres high and the largest of Kraków’s mounds. Raised between 1934 and 1937 to commemorate Józef Piłsudski, it contains soil from battlefields…
Kraków
**Skałka in Kraków**, the Basilica of St Michael the Archangel and St Stanislaus Bishop, is one of Kazimierz’s best-known landmarks. Tradition identifies this as the place where Bishop Stanisław of Szczepanów died in 1079. The basilica and…
Kraków
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre opened on **21 October 1893** as the Municipal Theatre — an eclectic, neo-Baroque 'Kraków opera' designed by Jan Zawiejski and modelled on Viennese theatre buildings. It took barely two years to build, and the…
Kraków
Las Wolski covers **419 hectares** in western Krakow, clothing the highest hills of the Sowiniec ridge: Sowiniec (**358 m above sea level**), Pustelnik (352 m) and Srebrna Gora (317 m). In **1917** the area was bought by the City of Krakow…
Rudno
The ruins of Tenczyn Castle rise on the cone of an extinct volcano — Castle Mountain (398 m), the highest point of the Tenczynek Ridge, 24 km from Kraków. The first mention of "in Thanczin" dates to **1308**; around **1319** the castellan…
Kraków
Kraków Zoo is set in Las Wolski, so a visit combines animals with a walk through one of the city’s greenest areas. Around 1,500 animals representing more than 270 species live across 20 hectares, including over 100 threatened species. ## P…
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…
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…
Sromowce Niżne
Trzy Korony (**982 m**) is the highest peak of the Middle Pieniny, rising some **530 m** above the Dunajec river. On the tallest of its limestone crags — Okrąglica — a railed viewing platform awaits, holding around **30 people**. It opens…
Zakopane
Villa Koliba was the first house ever built in the Zakopane style, designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz and erected between **1892 and 1893**. This is where the history of Polish national style in architecture began. Since **1993** the buildin…
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…
Niedzica
Dunajec Castle in Niedzica is a Hungarian-built stronghold from the 14th century, standing on a rocky hill above the Czorsztyn Bay. On the opposite shore, the ruins of the Polish castle of Czorsztyn aim straight back at it. For centuries t…
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…
Sułoszowa
A limestone pinnacle about **25 m** tall, rising from a rocky terrace **8–12 m** above the floor of the Prądnik Valley, Maczuga Herkulesa (Hercules' Club) is the best-known rock of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It stands in Ojców National…