Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
82 places
Radzionków
On Dzierżoń Street in Bytom-Miechowice, near the Church of the Holy Cross, stands the restored outbuilding of the former Tiele-Winckler palace. The palace itself — so grand it was called a castle — is gone: it burned in **1945**, and the g…
gmina Przygodzice
The south-eastern part of Dobrzyca is occupied by a classicist palace set in a landscape park laid out in the English style. The residence was built in **1798–1799** for General Augustyn Gorzeński — adjutant and head of the military chance…
Wrocław
Near Miękinia, west of Wrocław, amid a park flowing into riverside forests stand the ruins of an eclectic palace. The place looks bleak, but its history written since **1561** and the surviving details — coats of arms, German inscriptions,…
Ozimek
Izbicko, a village in Strzelce county in the Opole region, lives to the rhythm of its palace — the most important building in the village. The residence from the **16th century** burned down three times and each time returned in a differen…
Tarnowskie Góry
By the Zielona reservoir, in the part of Kalety separated from the town centre by a forest, stands the former hunting residence of the Donnersmarcks — one of the richest families of Upper Silesia. The historic building, listed in descripti…
Drohiczyn
On the Bug river, not far from Drohiczyn, stands a residence called the Pearl of Podlasie. The palace in Korczew began as the Baroque foundation of Castellan Wiktoryn Kuczyński in **1734**, and its present shape is the result of the interw…
Tarnowskie Góry
Late-classical residence in Lubliniec County, since **1953** the home of the Stanisław Hadyna Song and Dance Ensemble „Śląsk”. The site's history goes back to the Middle Ages, while the palace owes its present shape to the remodelling of *…
Racibórz
A tower-ringed residence near Racibórz, known as the pearl of the Racibórz Land, ranks among the largest palaces of Upper Silesia: it offers about **4,000 square metres** of floor space, **115 rooms** and **30 cellars** forming a labyrinth…
Szydłów
On an artificial embankment amid the former floodplains of the Czarna river stands one of the more interesting strongholds of the Świętokrzyskie region: a castle from the **14th century** that over the centuries evolved into a Baroque-Clas…
Racibórz
Beside the road from Racibórz to Rudnik, Neo-Gothic ruins of the Eichendorff palace rise from the park — an important site among the monuments of Romanticism in Poland. In **1788** the poet **Joseph von Eichendorff**, the singer of wanderi…
Ruda Sułowska
A classicist palace by the Barycz river, built in **1797–1798** to a design by Karl Geissler for Joachim Karl von Maltzan, served the Maltzan family until the end of the Second World War. Today it houses a forestry secondary school, yet th…
Chrzanów
The palace at Młoszowa is one of the strangest residences of Lesser Poland: a Neo-Gothic palace pretending to be a medieval castle. Its owner, Juliusz Florkiewicz, invented an entire story of a stronghold destroyed by the Swedes, drew up a…
Siedlce
A crumbling classicist palace in Mordy, on the borderland of Podlasie and Mazovia, testifies to the history of one of the wealthier families of the Siedlce region. The residence was raised in **1717** on the groundworks of a fortified mano…
Nowy Sącz
A few kilometres south of Nowy Sącz, among the old trees of the Stadnicki park, stands a palace whose lineage reaches back to the 16th century. Today it houses the Małopolska Agricultural Advisory Centre, and its body retains the shape giv…
Brzeg
The baroque palace in Oleśnica Mała, a short drive east of Oława in Lower Silesia, stands on ground where Silesian history interweaves threefold: the Templars, the Hospitallers and a Prussian field marshal's family. Duke Bolesław I the Tal…
Siedlce
Between Sokołów Podlaski and Siedlce, amid the fields of southern Podlasie, stands one of the region's most interesting residences: the neo-Gothic palace in Patrykozy. Its story begins with the November Uprising — the founder was General T…
gmina Pilica
The palace in Pilica, also called the castle, is one of the most unusual residences of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland: a palazzo in fortezza, an Italian villa built into a bastion fortress. The late-Renaissance residence was begun shortly b…
Rzeczyce
The palace in Pławniowice, between Gliwice and Kędzierzyn-Koźle, is one of the most distinctive buildings of Upper Silesia: a three-winged residence of red brick under a steep graphite roof, decorated with turrets, spires and dormers. It w…
Soblówka
In the Soła valley between Milówka and Ujsoły in the Żywiec Beskids stands a palace that travelled from a minor nobleman's manor to a Habsburg residence and a hospital. The original seat was raised around 1809 by the Siemoński family; Anas…
Chorzów
In the Municipal Park of Siemianowice Śląskie stands a palace whose scale surprises: the main body alone exceeds 23 thousand cubic metres, making it one of the largest palaces in Poland. The residence dates back to the 17th century, when t…
Racibórz
Even as a ruin, the palace in Sławików in the Rudnik commune near Racibórz impresses: it is the largest palace in Racibórz county, with a 62-metre facade of 19 window axes. The exact date of its construction has not been established — scho…
Ryn
The palace in Sorkwity, about 12 kilometres west of Mrągowo, looks like a medieval red-brick castle — although in fact it is a neo-Gothic residence from the mid-19th century. It stands on an isthmus between lakes Gielądzkie and Lampackie,…
Węgrów
The palace in Starawieś, about 9 kilometres north-west of Węgrów, lies within the Nadbużański Landscape Park, by the Liwiec river, which flows wide here. The first residence was probably erected in the late 16th century, and over the follo…
Piekary Śląskie
The park in Świerklaniec, between Tarnowskie Góry and Piekary Śląskie, holds traces of one of the most splendid residences of Upper Silesia. What survives is the Knight's Palace, raised in 1903–1906 to a design by Ernst von Ihne as the gue…