Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
77 places
Olsztynek
The central square of the Old Town is ringed by town houses from the **17th to 19th centuries**, some of them with arcaded loggias and sgraffito decoration. In the middle stands the Old Town Hall, built in **1623–1624**, while the oldest s…
Częstochowa
A square at the foot of the castle hill in a small town on the Trail of the Eagles' Nests, about **15 km** south-east of Częstochowa. After revitalisation the once quiet market square became the town's calling card — the ruins of the **13t…
Opatów
An elongated rectangular square in the heart of the town, with a town hall from the turn of the **16th and 17th centuries** in the eastern frontage and an underground tourist route about **400 m** long, laid out in the medieval cellars ben…
Oświęcim
A medieval trading square whose present look is the result of a modernisation completed in **May 2014** — a cobbled surface, a reconstructed well and a glass panel over the preserved fragments of the walls of the first town hall from the *…
gmina Pilica
A square laid out in the **14th century** when the town was chartered, preserving to this day a typical medieval spatial layout — the streets radiate from the corners of the square, and a Gothic parish church stands by one of them. Its chi…
Przeworsk
The market square of a former Galician town with preserved timber architecture — the oldest houses date from the **18th century**, and many have characteristic arcaded porches where dwelling, artisan workshop and trade once shared the same…
Prudnik
A rectangular square in the heart of the Old Town of one of the oldest towns in Upper Silesia, chartered under Magdeburg law in **1279**. In the centre stands the Baroque-Classical town hall of **1782** with a **63 m** tower, and at the co…
gmina Niegowa
Plac Kazimierza Wielkiego in a small town chartered on **15 March 1369** under Środa (Magdeburg-derived) law. In studies of towns degraded by the tsarist reform of 1869–1870, the Przyrów square scored the highest degree of urbanity after K…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A spacious square of the medieval urban layout, ringed by carefully restored town houses from the **18th and 19th centuries**. The northern frontage holds the Neo-Renaissance town hall — the seat of the town authorities for three centuries…
Racibórz
The market square has been Racibórz’s central place since the Middle Ages, though its present look tells a more complicated story than most Silesian old towns. Wartime destruction consumed almost all of the original buildings, and today’s…
Rzeszów
The market square of Rzeszów forms an uneven quadrilateral in the heart of the Subcarpathian capital. Three frontages are built up — south, east and north; in the western one the town hall rises alone. Townhouses from the 15th–19th centuri…
Siewierz
Siewierz received its town charter around **1276** and for centuries was the capital of its own duchy ruled by the bishops of Kraków. The market square, laid out at the town’s founding, still keeps the size of the medieval place — today vo…
Zamarski
Skoczów is one of the oldest towns in Cieszyn Silesia, and its quadrilateral market square, with streets leaving from the corners, has kept its medieval layout. Most townhouses date from the second half of the **18th and the 19th century**…
Olkusz
The market square of Sławków is the heart of a Jura town on the edge of the Zagłębie Dąbrowskie coal basin — calm, rarely crowded, and hiding a monument that almost no other square in Poland can boast. Eight centuries of trade and mining h…
Nowy Sącz
Stary Sącz ranks among the oldest towns in Poland — it received its charter in the **13th century**, lying on the amber route. The market square has kept the layout from the town’s founding under Magdeburg law: two streets leave from each…
Świdnica
The market square of Świdnica is the heart of an urban ensemble that specialists rank as the most valuable in all of Lower Silesia, comparing the old town with Kraków and Toruń. The war spared the town, so townhouses with relics of Gothic…
Czchów
The market square of Tarnów was laid out during the town’s founding in **1330**, and the townhouses around it, built from the **16th to the 19th century**, make the place one of the finest Renaissance urban ensembles in Poland. Two streets…
Tarnowskie Góry
The market square of Tarnowskie Góry took shape in the **second half of the 16th century** and has the form of an irregular trapezoid — the gwarki, silver and lead miners, built houses around mine shafts, not along a planned grid. Two shaf…
Brenna
The market square in Ustroń looks nothing like the squares of most Polish towns. There are no medieval townhouses or merchant arcades, because it was created only after the site of the former bus station was revitalised. Today it is a mode…
Wałbrzych
The market square in Wałbrzych is the central space of the former Waldenburg, for centuries a wealthy centre of linen trade and mining. After a thorough revitalisation it gained an eye-catching fountain, restored townhouses and greenery —…
Węgrów
The market square in Węgrów, known as the Mariacki Square, is a spacious public space in the centre of a town lying on the border of Mazovia and Podlachia, by the Liwiec river. After a recent revitalisation it serves as the town's showcase…
Wisła
The market square in Wisła is in fact Plac Bogumiła Hoffa — the town's central square, shaped in the interwar period, when Wisła was becoming a fashionable mountain resort in the Silesian Beskids. The arcaded frontage was built in the 1930…
Ząbkowice Śląskie
The market square in Ząbkowice Śląskie is the main square of a town known in the Middle Ages as Frankenstein. Filled with colourful, decorated townhouses, it has looked renewed since its 2009 revitalisation. Over the old town looms the whi…
Szczebrzeszyn
The Great Market Square in Zamość is one of the finest Renaissance urban spaces in Europe: a 100 × 100 m square designed as part of a town founded in 1580 by Hetman Jan Zamoyski. In 1992 the square, together with the Old Town, was inscribe…