Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Sandomierz
The Pepper Mountains, also called Pieprzówki, lie about 2.5 km from Sandomierz Old Town on the edge of the Vistula valley. Dark Cambrian clay shales around 500 million years old form a steep slope with rocky outcrops. This nature reserve i…
Częstochowa
The Towarne Hills north of Olsztyn near Częstochowa are a low, open group of limestone hills with outcrops and caves. Their highest point, Lisica, is about 349 metres above sea level. The rocks form part of the Eagles’ Nests Landscape Park…
Siemiatycze
Holy Mount Grabarka, known as the Mount of Crosses, is Poland’s most important Orthodox sanctuary. It lies about 12 km east of Siemiatycze among the forests of Podlasie. Thousands of votive crosses brought by pilgrims cover the slopes. Thi…
Stara Wieś
The Blue Springs lie between Troniny and Stara Wieś in the Załęczański Landscape Park. They are karst springs by the Jarzębski Meander of the Warta: some water emerges from a fissure, while some rises from an oxbow lake. Clear water can ta…
gmina Niegowa
The ohel in Lelów commemorates Dawid Biderman, known as the Lelower (1746–1814), a rabbi and founder of the Lelov Hasidic dynasty. It stands on Ogrodowa Street near the market, at a site connected with the former Jewish cemetery. It is an…
Podzamcze
Grochowiec Wielki is a rocky hill rising to 486 metres above sea level, between Ryczów and Żelazko in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is about 2 km from Ryczów and roughly 5 km from Ogrodzieniec Castle. The limestone massif combines a vi…
Stara Wieś
Gród Byczyna in Biskupice is a timber reconstruction of a medieval stronghold beside the Biskupice “Brzózki” reservoir, in Byczyna municipality. Built in 2006–2007 as a Polish-Czech Knights’ Training Centre, it uses a six-metre palisade, g…
Podzamcze
The stronghold on Birów Hill in Podzamcze is a timber reconstruction of an early-medieval fortified settlement, about 1.5 km from Ogrodzieniec Castle. Its ramparts, palisade and huts show what a stronghold from the age of Poland’s first Pi…
gmina Łubowo
Gród Pobiedziska is a family history park on the Piast Trail, on Fabryczna Street in Pobiedziska between Poznań and Gniezno. The timber stronghold evokes the beginnings of the Polish state, while its main attraction is a collection of full…
gmina Łubowo
The Giecz Stronghold, now the Early Piast Archaeological Reserve, lies on the Piast Trail. It was an important centre of the state of the first Piasts. The reserve includes stronghold remains, an archaeological exhibition, an 18th-century…
Międzyzdroje
Grodzisko Lubin — Viewing Terraces is a viewpoint and archaeological site on Wolin Island, about 6 km south of Międzyzdroje. The timber terraces stand on the cliff above the Szczecin Lagoon, over 50 metres above sea level. Telescopes revea…
Jerzmanowice
Grodzisko, also known as Skała 502, Wzgórze 502 or Wyjrzoł, is a limestone outcrop in Jerzmanowice on the Olkusz Upland. Recent measurements give it an elevation of 512.8 metres, although the name recalls older surveys. From the summit, vi…
Olkusz
Stary Olkusz Stronghold is an archaeological site on a small hill west of today’s Olkusz. A circular courtyard about 80 metres across is surrounded by a moat and two rings of earthen ramparts. The appeal lies in the terrain, church ruins a…
Sobótka
The Archaeological Reserve in Będkowice lies at the foot of Mount Ślęża, between Będkowice and Strzegomiany, a few kilometres from Sobótka. It preserves a Ślężanie settlement complex from the 8th–11th centuries: a stronghold, settlement re…
Wiślica
Wiślica Hillfort, also called the Hillfort in the Meadows, is an archaeological site about 400 metres south-east of Wiślica town centre. It stands among meadows near an old channel of the Nida River. The earthworks and slopes outline a for…
Żywiec
Grojec is a hill within Żywiec, in the Żywiec Valley, with three summits: Mały Grojec (about 422 m above sea level), Średni Grojec, also called Kopiec (about 475 m), and Duży Grojec (612 m). Its position above the town makes it a good walk…
Rzyki
Komoniecki Grotto, also called Komoniecki Cave, lies in the eastern Little Beskids in the headwaters of the Dusica stream. It is a natural rock shelter measuring about 115 m², up to 2 m high and about 15 m wide. The formation is protected…
gmina Niegowa
Bear Grotto in Złoty Potok lies in the Wiercica Valley, within the Parkowe nature reserve in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is a natural cave with a spacious chamber and darker, damp passages, not a lit show cave with guided tours. Trea…
Zagnańsk
The Grotto of St Rosalia lies on the summit of Perzowa Hill (395 m above sea level) at Hucisko, within the Perzowa Góra nature reserve. It is a rock niche among red Triassic sandstones, with a small chapel dedicated to St Rosalia, patron o…
Zakopane
Gubałówka (1,123 m) is a ridge in the Gubałówka Range, directly above Zakopane, with one of the best-known viewpoints of the Tatras. The lower funicular station stands by Plac pod Gubałówką, next to the market. At the top, visitors find vi…
Tarnowskie Góry
Gwarki is a multi-day festival in Tarnowskie Góry, organised since 1957 and rooted in the town’s mining history. In September, the Market Square, central streets and cultural venues fill with concerts, family activities, fairs and exhibiti…
Soblówka
In the **Lipowski Wierch and Romanka Group** of the Żywiec Beskids, on the sub-summit slopes between **Boraczy Wierch (1,244 m)** and **Lipowski Wierch (1,324 m)**, stretches **Hala Bieguńska** — a meadow at about **1,200 m**, one of the m…
Soblówka
Above **Żabnica and Węgierska Górka**, on the **pass below Redykalny Wierch (998 m)**, lies **Hala Boracza (860 m)** — a Beskid meadow with the **PTTK hut at 854 m**, one of the oldest in the Żywiec Beskids. It is a rare case of a hala you…
Zakopane
The broad flattening in the upper part of the Gąsienicowa Valley is one of the busiest trail junctions in the Polish Tatras. Two routes lead here from Kuźnice — the blue trail via Boczań and Skupniów Upłaz or the yellow one through the Jaw…