Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
116 places
Międzylesie
Międzylesie Castle in Międzylesie is an interesting stop connected with the area’s history, culture or landscape. Include it in a sightseeing plan and combine it with other nearby places. Check current opening hours and access details befo…
Niemodlin
Niemodlin Castle is a ducal residence in the Opole region, with a history reaching back to a medieval stronghold. Its present form combines Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque features. A park with paths, mature trees and fallow deer surrounds…
Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowice Stare Castle in Tarnowskie Góry is an interesting stop connected with the area’s history, culture or landscape. Include it in a sightseeing plan and combine it with other nearby places. Check current opening hours and access deta…
Cieszyn
Castle Hill in Cieszyn is the historic heart of the town, rising above the Olza River by the Polish-Czech border. The former stronghold preserves the Romanesque Rotunda of St Nicholas and St Wenceslaus, the Gothic Piast Tower and a park wi…
Drohiczyn
Castle Hill in Drohiczyn is a wooded rise above the Bug River and a good viewpoint for seeing its distinctive bends. It stands close to the town centre, so the short climb fits easily into a walk among Drohiczyn’s historic buildings. The h…
Podzamcze
Since **4 November 2021**, when it was officially opened, the ruins of Ogrodzieniec Castle in Podzamcze turn after dark into the Ogrodzieniec Fortress of Light — an open-air illumination spectacle spread over several winter months. The set…
Gniew
A car route of several hundred kilometres across the former lands of the Teutonic Order: from Malbork through Kociewie, Powiśle, Warmia, Masuria and Kashubia. It links **a dozen or so Gothic strongholds** whose walls today serve as museums…
Prudnik
Woka Tower on Zamkowy Square is the oldest building in Prudnik and the only surviving remnant of the medieval castle of Wogendrossel, at whose foot the town later grew. Its significance goes far beyond the region: it is the oldest castle t…
Łęknica
On the Lusatian Neisse, on the Polish-German border, the New Castle stands in the Muskau Park — the heart of the largest English-style park in this part of Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage site. The castle lies on the German side, in Bad…
Strzelce Opolskie
Above the Zamkowy square in Ujazd, in the heart of the Strzelce land, rise the raw walls of the former residence of the bishops of Wrocław — one of the oldest secular strongholds of the Opole region. The castle was built in the **mid-13th…
Poznań
On Przemysł Hill, just behind Poznań’s Old Market square, stands the oldest surviving royal residence in Poland. The Royal Castle was built in the **13th century** as a residential tower for Przemysł I; it was expanded by his son **Przemys…
Trzebieszowice
Above the Biała Lądecka river, in the valley linking Kłodzko with Lądek-Zdrój, stands Zamek na Skale — today a luxury hotel, once one of the greatest attractions of the Kłodzko land. Its core is a 15th-century knightly residence whose ston…
Podzamcze
Ogrodzieniec Castle is a monumental Renaissance ruin on Góra Janowskiego in Podzamcze, surrounded by the limestone outcrops of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is one of the best-known sites on the Trail of the Eagles’ Nests. ## From medi…
Świny
In a village between Świdnica and Jaworzyna Śląska hides the former summer residence of the Hochbergs — the family settled here first, before it took over Książ castle. A moated castle existed here as early as the **14th century**: in **13…
Klimkówka
In Grybów near Nowy Sącz stands a structure that recreates what once existed only in legend: a fortified stronghold founded by Bolesław called the Fierce, where — according to tradition — in **1287** the troops of the Tatar-Mongol invasion…
Wrocław
Three kilometres from the city limits of Wrocław, in Ślęza, hides a castle with eight centuries of history. At the beginning of the **14th century** the Templars built a two-storey fortified residential tower on a rectangular plan, around…
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…
Bielsko-Biała
In the eastern part of the Old Town of Bielsko-Biała stands the oldest and largest historic building of the city: a castle whose foundations were laid by the **dukes of Cieszyn**. The stronghold was erected in the **second half of the 14th…
Niemodlin
On a hill rising 184 m above sea level, about 11 km west of Opole, stands one of the most valuable residences of Upper Silesia — the castle in Dąbrowa. Its hallmark are the unusual twisted chimneys, regarded as unique in Europe. The histor…
Korzkiew
On the rocky hill called Zamkowa Skała, or Zamczysko, near Biały Kościół, the remnants of a small knightly castle from the early 14th century have survived. The main element of the stronghold was a curtain wall running along the edge of th…
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…
Zamarski
Tucked among trees on the road from Jastrzębie-Zdrój to Cieszyn, the castle in Kończyce Małe is sometimes called the Wawel of Cieszyn Silesia — a name it owes to its representative arcaded courtyard, found in no other seat of the Cieszyn n…
Moszna
The late-Renaissance castle in Korfantów, formerly Friedland, stands on a low hill on the north-western edge of the town. Three wings arranged in a horseshoe enclose a quadrangular courtyard open to the west, while on the east the whole co…
Ruda Sułowska
The castle in Koźmin Wielkopolski, a small town on the Orla river in the Krotoszyn area, is a knightly stronghold from the second half of the 14th century, rebuilt many times and today housing a school and a museum. The masonry structure o…