Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
69 places
gmina Niegowa
The Raczyńscy Trout Farm in Złoty Potok, in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, has been operating for over **120 years** and is regarded as the oldest trout farm in Europe. It was founded in the 19th century by Count Edward Raczyński, who used…
Świdnica
In the central part of Sikorski Park in Świdnica stands a red triplane — a replica of the **Fokker Dr.I**, the type flown by **Manfred von Richthofen**, the most famous fighter ace of the First World War, known as the Red Baron. The monume…
Uniejów
At ul. Arcybiskupa Jakuba Świnka, not far from the thermal baths and the castle in Uniejów, stands the Mill Homestead — an open-air museum founded in **2012** and devoted to the old milling craft. Two wooden post windmills, an inn in a 19t…
Katowice
Between Spodek and the centre of Katowice, on the site of the former Katowice coal mine, a district has grown that changed the image of the city: the Culture Zone. At its central point rises the tower of the Warszawa II mine shaft, around…
Zabrze
A car-based thematic route past **forty sites** of industrial heritage in the Silesian voivodeship: mines, breweries, energy, railway, communications and food industry landmarks. It is run by the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze. The most valu…
Święta Katarzyna
A car route of **150 km** through the sites of the oldest industrial district in Poland: the Old-Polish Industrial District, the most industrialised region of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It links **thirteen** heritage-of-technology…
Złoty Stok
The Ochrowa Adit is a tourist route of the Złoty Stok Gold Mine — an attraction opened on **28 May 1996** in a former gold and arsenic mine at the foot of the Złote Mountains. Ochrowa is its newest, recently opened section; before that, th…
Gliwice
The Maciej Shaft in Zabrze's Maciejów district is a fully preserved complex of the former Concordia mine (later Pstrowski), now open to visitors as a site on the Industrial Monuments Route. Early twentieth-century buildings, the winding to…
gmina Kosakowo
By the Gdynia district of Babie Doły, right by the beach, the Torpedownia rises from the waters of the Bay of Gdańsk as a ruin — a former torpedo assembly and testing hall, built by the Germans during the Second World War on the bottom of…
Ścinawka Górna
On the former Piast mining field of the old Nowa Ruda coal mine, the Underground Tourist Route with the Mining Museum now operates (ul. Obozowa 4). The mine worked until **2000**, and its underground galleries have been opened to visitors…
gmina Stronie Śląskie
The Łaskawy Kamień lime kiln in Stara Morawa is a historic lime kiln with a hexagonal base, equipped with a permanent firing system — innovative for its era and considered a milestone of industrialisation. The crumbling structure was found…
Srebrna Góra
The two brick viaducts above the slopes of Srebrna Góra are the best-known keepsake of the Sowie Mountains Railway — a **62 km** line running from Dzierżoniów through Pieszyce, Bielawa, Srebrna Góra, Wolibórz and Słupiec to Ścinawka Średni…
Tarnowskie Góry
On an island in the middle of the Zielona Reservoir in Kalety stands a wooden windmill — a former mill, today one of the most recognisable structures of the Tarnowskie Góry area. Water on all sides and trees around the building make it loo…
Stara Wieś
In Ożarów near Wieluń, precisely in Kocilew, stands a wooden post mill. The present building was erected by the Kowalski family in **1914**, on the site of an older 19th-century mill. The sails sweep a circle about **17 metres** in diamete…
Giżycko
The brick tower at 37 Warszawska Street is the **tallest structure in Giżycko** and one of the more interesting examples of repurposed historic infrastructure in Masuria. Built in **1900** in the Neo-Gothic style, it supplied the town with…
gmina Dubeninki
The brick tower on Paderewskiego Street is one of the highest points of Gołdap. Built in **1905** by the Gdańsk company A. W. Müller, on a circular plan of ceramic brick, it rises **46.5 metres**. Inside worked a tank holding **250 cubic m…
Rudy
At 1 Szkolna Street in Rudy, a few minutes from the Cistercian abbey, awaits one of the more interesting monuments of engineering in Upper Silesia: the former narrow-gauge railway station, which still works like a living open-air museum —…
Karpacz
The dam on the Łomnica River in Karpacz was built not for its views but to protect the town from a powerful mountain river. In its upper reaches, the Łomnica has a very steep gradient, and after the catastrophic flood of 1897 a broad progr…
Niedzica
Between the Spiš Pieniny and the main Pieniny range, the Gabriel Narutowicz Dam pools the Dunajec — an embankment **400 m** long and about **50 m** high that closes the Czorsztyn Lake. Ideas for damming the Dunajec date back to **1905**, b…
Łodygowice
On the Soła river, at the foot of the Little Beskids, an embankment with a clay core closes Lake Żywieckie. The Tresna Dam was built from local materials — thick-bedded sandstones and gravel — and completed in **1966**. Its crest is **300…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The highest point of Góra Żar in the Little Beskids looks as if someone had scraped off its summit and replaced it with a sheet of water — and that is exactly how this mountain was made. On the top, at about **750 m above sea level**, lies…