Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
91 places
Wiślica
The Gothic church of St Stanislaus in Nowy Korczyn is a former Franciscan monastery church and one of the oldest monuments of the Nida valley. It was founded in **1257** by Duke Bolesław Wstydliwy (the Chaste) and his wife Kinga, later a s…
Wiślica
A few dozen metres from the market square of Nowy Korczyn stands the parish church of the Holy Trinity, raised on the site of a wooden medieval church of St Elizabeth and St Lawrence, burned in **1608**. The present temple was built in **1…
Wiślica
In Gorysławice, right next to Wiślica in the Ponidzie region, stands the Gothic Church of St. Lawrence — a stone, oriented temple from **1535**, built through the efforts of the local parish priest, Father Józef Dałowicz. In the past these…
Święta Katarzyna
At the foot of Łysa Góra, in the small town on the road leading to Święty Krzyż, stands the stone church of St Lawrence — a witness to seven centuries of the Holy Cross Mountains. The parish is first mentioned in a Peter's pence register f…
Szydłów
Szydłów, famous for its preserved town walls, owes its parish church to King Casimir the Great himself: the Gothic church of St Ladislaus was raised around **1355** on the site of an older wooden temple. The foundation had a penitential di…
Pińczów
On a hill above the Nida river in Chrobrz, in Pińczów County, stands the Renaissance church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John Cantius — a foundation from around **1550** by Stanisław Tarnowski, Voivode of Sandomierz…
Szydłów
In Kurozwęki, in the shadow of the nearby palace, stands the Gothic church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built around **1470**. Its history mirrors the turbulence of the epochs: from the arrival of the canons regular to a P…
Święta Katarzyna
Beneath the monastery on Święty Krzyż, at the top of Łysa Góra, stretch crypts holding the coffins of former monks — some of the bodies mummified naturally in the cool, damp underground. In a separate chamber lies Prince Jeremi Wiśniowieck…
Wiślica
On the Busko-Zdrój promenade, in front of the cultural centre that bears his name, a man with a guitar sits on a bench shaped like a griffin's neck. This is **Wojciech Belon** — a singer and poet of the Ponidzie region, co-founder of Wolna…
Wiślica
In Wiślica, right next to the collegiate church, beneath the pavilion of the Archaeological Museum – a branch of the National Museum in Kielce – survive the relics of the Romanesque church of St Nicholas and a stone basin 4.5 metres across…
Szydłów
Szydłów is sometimes called the **Polish Carcassonne** — just like Paczków. The Gothic fortifications **from the 14th century** run for **700 metres**; battlements and arrow slits survive, and the circuit is longer than the town walls of K…
Pińczów
The Regional Museum in Pińczów has operated since **1963** in a former Pauline monastery in the town centre at Piłsudskiego Street 2a, next to the church of St John the Evangelist. The monastery itself dates back to **1431–1449** and recei…
Święta Katarzyna
In antiquity the Holy Cross Mountains were — outside the Roman Empire — the largest iron-smelting centre in Europe. In bloomery furnaces, one-off clay constructions, the inhabitants of these lands of the Przeworsk culture smelted metal, se…
Święta Katarzyna
At the foot of Łysa Góra, on the opposite side from Nowa Słupia, the Medieval Settlement stands in Huta Szklana in the Bieliny commune — a dozen-odd reconstructed rural huts with full furnishings. The site belongs to the Centre of Traditio…
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…
Pińczów
In Ponidzie, in the village of Chroberz near Pińczów, stands the late-classicist palace of **1859** founded by Margrave **Aleksander Wielopolski**. The residence was designed by **Henryk Marconi** — the same architect to whom Busko-Zdrój o…
Pińczów
At the foot of Castle Hill, north of the Pińczów market square, stands the Baroque-classicist Wielopolski Palace — the core of the castle-and-palace complex on the Nida. It was raised in **1773–1799** for **Franciszek Wielopolski**, the te…
Święta Katarzyna
At 425 m above sea level, at the foot of Łysica — the highest peak of the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains at 612 m — the year-round Sabat Krajno resort combines a miniature park, an amusement park and a ski station above the village…
Wiślica
The Spa Park covers **16 hectares** in the southern part of Busko-Zdrój and is the green heart of a resort famous for its sulphurous waters, whose smell has accompanied patients for almost two centuries. The landscape layout was created in…
Sandomierz
On the steep Zamkowa street, at the junction with Żydowska street, between the Sandomierz market square and the castle, stands a monument impossible to pass indifferently: a **ring about a metre in diameter** set with a huge eye of striped…
Wiślica
Wiślica, today one of the smallest towns in Poland, was for centuries a significant hub on the merchant route running “from Prague to Kyivan Rus”. The heart of medieval trade was not the market square, however, but the **Salt Square** — a…
Święta Katarzyna
On the summit of Łysa Góra (**594 m asl**), also called Święty Krzyż (Holy Cross), a large viewing platform has been built. Its greatest asset is not only the panorama of the Świętokrzyskie ranges but what lies directly beneath your feet:…
Opatów
The Opatów Underground is a complex of old merchant cellars and town storage rooms beneath the market-square townhouses, turned into a tourist route opened in **1984**. The route runs for about **500 metres** on three levels beneath the ma…
Sandomierz
From the water, Sandomierz looks different than from the hills above the town: the panorama of the old town rises from the level of the river, and the banks are overgrown with thickets full of birds. Vistula cruises depart from Stary Port…