Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
55 places
gmina Pasłęk
The 14th-century Market Tower, also known as the Market Gate, is the oldest and most distinctive structure in Elbląg. Once part of the town walls by the Old Market Square, today it combines a viewing terrace with a museum display, and next…
Ostróda
A walk through the Dylew Hills is the most mountainous landscape you will find in Warmia and Masuria: moraine hills cut by ravines, beech forests and Dylewska Góra at **312 m above sea level** — the highest elevation of north-eastern Polan…
Kętrzyn
In the village of Bezławki on the Dajna river, a dozen or so kilometres from Kętrzyn, stands a Gothic stronghold that turned into a church. The castle of the Teutonic procurator was built in the **second half of the 14th century**, and fro…
Giżycko
On the Łuczański Canal, which links the Masurian lakes Niegocin and Kisajno, stands a former Teutonic stronghold from the second half of the 14th century. Giżycko Castle was built on the so-called Giżycko Island as the seat of a Teutonic p…
Olsztynek
Above the town of Olsztynek stands a 14th-century Teutonic castle, erected in **1350–1366** on the orders of the Ostróda komtur Gunther von Hohenstein. The stronghold survived wars and fires in fairly good shape and today — unusually — hou…
Nidzica
By Lake Domowe Duże in Szczytno survive the ruins of a Teutonic castle whose history goes back to the **13th century**. Next to them rises a monumental town hall of 1936–1937 modelled on medieval fortresses, so the town centre still looks…
Iława
Above Lake Szymbarskie, some 10 km north of Iława, rises one of the largest castle ruins in northern Poland: the Gothic castle of the Pomesanian chapter, covering **75 × 92 m** and once ringed by a moat with a drawbridge. Construction bega…