Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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Bielsk Podlaski
## A former bell tower, now a chapel Kleszczele preserves a wooden building connected with the former Church of Saint Nicholas. The surviving filial chapel is not the parish’s main church: it is the bell tower that outlasted the old comple…
Smolnik
## A Hutsul-style wooden church The former Greek Catholic Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Bystre near Czarna is a distinctive wooden monument of the Bieszczady Mountains. It was built in 1901–1902 to a design attributed to Wasyl N…
Krasiczyn
## A complex of two churches Dobra Szlachecka on the San preserves an unusual church complex. The main wooden building from 1879 was a Greek Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas and now serves as a Roman Catholic filial church dedicated to th…
Turzańsk
## A church rebuilt after a fire The Orthodox Church of the Protection of the Mother of God in Komańcza stands on a hill beside the road to Daliowa and Dukla. Today’s building is a faithful reconstruction of the wooden church built in 1800…
Muszyna
## Former Church of Saint Demetrius In Złockie, now a district of Muszyna, stands a wooden church with two identities. Built in 1867–1872 as the Greek Catholic Church of Saint Demetrius, it became the Roman Catholic parish church of the Na…
Klimkówka
## Former Church of Saint Michael the Archangel In Polany in the Beskid Sądecki, near Krynica-Zdrój, stands a wooden church dating from around 1820. It is the former Greek Catholic Church of Saint Michael the Archangel and is now a Roman C…
Bielsk Podlaski
## A blue Orthodox church by the Narew In Puchły, a village in the Narew municipality, stands one of Podlasie’s most recognisable wooden Orthodox churches. The Church of the Protection of the Mother of God is known for its blue façades, ri…
Turzańsk
## Former Church of Saint Nicholas At the end of historic Rzepedź-Wieś, above the Rzepedka stream, stands the former Greek Catholic Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The present wooden church was built in 1824, while the first doc…
Turzańsk
## Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God On a hillside above the Osława River, about 150 metres from the road between Zagórz and Komańcza, stands the wooden church in Szczawne. It was built with its bell tower in 1888–1889 as a Gree…
Hajnówka
## Church of Saint Michael the Archangel In the centre of Trześcianka, on a tree-lined square enclosed by a wall, stands the wooden Orthodox Church of Saint Michael the Archangel. The present church was built in 1864–1867 after an earlier…
Bielsk Podlaski
## St Michael the Archangel Chapel The village of Wojszki, in Juchnowiec Kościelny municipality, is home to a small Orthodox filial chapel dedicated to St Michael the Archangel. It was erected as a votive chapel commemorating Russian soldi…
Bielsk Podlaski
## A 19th-century masonry Orthodox church The Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God at 2 1 Maja Street is the parish Orthodox church of Kleszczele. It was built in the 1870s as a larger masonry church for a growing community. It sta…
Turzańsk
## Churches worth seeing The Bieszczady are one of Poland’s most rewarding regions for exploring wooden church architecture. Historic churches connected with former Lemko and Bojko villages survive here. The church in Smolnik on the San an…
Rabsztyn
## Antoni Kocjan’s family home At the foot of the Rabsztyn castle ruins, on the Trail of the Eagles’ Nests, stands a reconstructed wooden house from 1862. It was the family home of Antoni Kocjan, a leading Polish glider designer. In 2004 t…
Koniaków
## A regional art gallery Chata na Szańcach in Koniaków is the Tadeusz Rucki Gallery of Art and Regional Culture of Non-Professional Artists. It has operated since 1990 in a wooden cottage in the Szańce hamlet and presents the creative wor…
Smerek
## The new shelter on Połonina Wetlińska Chatka Puchatka is the popular name of the Bieszczady National Park tourist shelter “Chatka Puchatka II”, located on Połonina Wetlińska near Hasiakowa Skała at about 1,228–1,232 m above sea level. A…
Wałbrzych
Chełmiec (851 m above sea level) is the second-highest summit of the Wałbrzyskie Mountains, after Borowa, and a distinctive landmark of the Central Sudetes. Natura 2000 and the Chełmiec Dome protected landscape area cover the massif. The w…
Brenna
Chlebowa Chata in Górki Małe near Brenna is an open-air museum, educational farm and hands-on heritage centre where visitors learn about rural life by doing rather than only looking. The bread oven is the heart of the site, but the visit g…
Jerzmanowice
Chochołowy Dwór in Jerzmanowice is a hotel and restaurant beside national road 94, about 15 km from Kraków, in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Its location near Ojców National Park makes it a useful base for exploring the area or a place to…
Turzańsk
Arkadiusz Andrejkow’s Silent Memorial is a cycle of more than one hundred paintings on wooden barns, sheds and cottages. The artist from Sanok transfers people from old family photographs onto timber, turning rural buildings into an open-a…
Chęciny
Ciuchcia Ponidzie, officially the Świętokrzyska Narrow-Gauge Railway “Ciuchcia Express Ponidzie”, is a tourist ride on a historic railway through the landscapes of the Ponidzie region. ## Railway history The line dates back to 1915, when t…
Białowieża
The Białowieża tourist train is a road-going sightseeing vehicle shaped like a train: a locomotive with covered carriages that travels on streets, not rails. It offers an easy way to see Białowieża and the surroundings of the Białowieża Fo…
Węgrów
The Evangelical-Augsburg cemetery on Ewangelicka Street in Węgrów is one of the town’s most important traces of its Protestant and multicultural past. The burial ground dates from the second half of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th ce…
Kraków
Rakowicki Cemetery at 26 Rakowicka Street is Kraków’s oldest municipal cemetery and an important place in the city’s history. It was laid out in 1801–1802 on what was then the outskirts, after burials beside churches were banned. The first…