Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
105 places
Żyrowa
**The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Malnia** forms an unusual two-level complex: a wooden church moved from Kostów near Kluczbork stands above a masonry church built of limestone. The site rises on a small hill in Gogolin c…
Strzelce Opolskie
**The Church of St Andrew the Apostle in Ujazd Śląski** stands in the town centre, opposite the castle ruins. Its history reaches back to the Middle Ages, while its present appearance combines remains of an older church with the Baroque re…
Głogówek
**The Collegiate Church of St Bartholomew the Apostle in Głogówek** combines a Gothic structure with one of the finest Baroque interiors in the Opole region. It stands almost beside the Market Square, and its story runs from the first pari…
Brzeg
In Małujowice, seven kilometres from Brzeg, stands the brick-and-stone Gothic church of St. James the Apostle — a Monument of History since **2022** and the scene of one of the most celebrated discoveries of medieval art in Poland. Its wal…
Racibórz
On the edge of Baborów, in the Głubczyce Plateau, stands the wooden Church of St Joseph and St Barbara. The larch church was built in 1700–1702 on the site of a pilgrimage chapel. Its distinctive features are a Greek-cross plan and rich Ba…
Otmuchów
Right by the market square of Otmuchów stands the Baroque basilica of St. Nicholas and Francis Xavier of **1693**, built on the site of an earlier church. It owes its existence to the bishops of Wrocław — for centuries Otmuchów belonged to…
Stara Wieś
On Okrężna Street, within the medieval town walls of Byczyna, stands the Gothic church of St. Nicholas, built at the end of the 14th century. Today it serves as a filial church of the Evangelical-Augsburg parish in Wołczyn, its stately sil…
Brzeg
By the Oder, on Młynów Square, stands the oldest church of Brzeg — the church of Sts. Peter and Paul, mentioned as early as 1285. Raised by the Franciscans, over the centuries it changed so profoundly that for a long time it served no reli…
Opole
The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Chróścina Opolska, a village in the commune of Lewin Brzeski, looks today like a classicist temple, yet its history reaches back to the Middle Ages — the first mention of a church on this s…
Nysa
Less than two hundred metres from the market square of Nysa, on Bracka street, stands a church regarded as the finest Baroque temple in the city. St Peter and Paul Church was built in **1720–1727**, and its history is tied to the Canons Re…
Moszna
On a steep hill in Ścinawa Nyska, a village in the Korfantów commune between the town and Nysa, stands the masonry church of St Peter and Paul. A Gothic church — perhaps even a Romanesque one — stood here before: it certainly existed in **…
Prudnik
On Skłodowska street in Głuchołazy stands the small church of St Roch, a filial church of the St Lawrence parish — a place born of plague. The first chapel was erected here in the mid-**14th century**, when Europe was ravaged by the epidem…
Moszna
In the northern part of Korfantów, on a low hill, stands the Holy Trinity church — usually the first building a visitor to the town sees. The oldest part of the church can be recognised by its granite portal; its appearance suggests the ch…
Niemodlin
The parish church of St Lawrence in Dąbrowa near Opole is one of the best documented churches in the Opole part of Upper Silesia. Its own parish priest — „Nicolaus plebanus in Dambrova" — is already listed in a tithe register from **1305**…
Prudnik
The twin-towered church of St Lawrence stands almost on the market square of Głuchołazy, at the foot of Góra Parkowa in the Opole region. A document from **1285** mentions the parish and its priest Rudolf, while church building here goes b…
Kopice
At the edge of Sidzina in the Nysa County, alone in the middle of fields along the Niemodlin–Nysa road, stands the **church of the Finding of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of Częstochowa** — a temple no street leads to, yet pilgrims from the…
Niemodlin
By the market square of Niemodlin stands the Gothic church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — a temple with a presbytery from the end of the **13th century**, which for over four centuries (1389–1810) served as a collegiate chu…
Stara Wieś
At 22 Senatorska Street stands the town's most important church — the **Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary**, belonging to the Archdiocese of Częstochowa and serving today as a Marian sanctuary. The parish's history reache…
Kopice
Next to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross church in Kopice near Grodków stands the neoclassical mausoleum of Johanna and Hans Ulrich Schaffgotsch. The tomb from the second half of the 19th century remains a memento of the "Silesian Cinderel…
Głogówek
Among fields and clusters of trees between Pisarzowice and Komorniki, on the Osobłoga river, stand the ruins of a milling complex known as the Amerykan: the former Schreibersdorfer Mühle mill, a granary and a manor house with a bakery. Bui…
Stara Wieś
Byczyna is one of the few Polish towns whose medieval fortifications have survived almost intact. A ring of brick and rough-stone walls, in places built of field boulders, encircles the old town in an oval line over **900 metres** long — a…
Nysa
Nysa, the residential city of the Wrocław bishops, was surrounded by brick fortifications **in the mid-14th century**, under Bishop Przecław of Pogorzela. The circuit comprised **four gates and twenty-eight bastions**; an outer second wall…
Paczków
Paczków in Opole Silesia is called the **Polish Carcassonne** — and for good reason. Stone walls from the 14th century encircle the town in a regular oval **1,200 metres** long, rising in places to **7 metres**, and of the original **24 ba…
Strzelce Opolskie
Strzelce Opolskie, whose history reaches back to the **13th century**, was surrounded by walls about **1 kilometre** long. The town lay on the trade route **Wrocław–Opole–Kraków**, and the course of that route determined the line of the de…