Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
105 places
Żyrowa
The Museum of the Silesian Uprisings on Góra Świętej Anny was established for the **40th anniversary of the Third Silesian Uprising**, on the site of some of the fiercest fighting of **1921**. Since **1980** it has been housed in the **Pol…
Paczków
A few steps from the town walls of Paczków, at **6 Pocztowa Street**, stands the former gasworks — the only site in Poland where the **installations for producing town gas have survived complete**. Today it is the Gasworks Museum, whose co…
Ozimek
The museum at 10 Zamkowa Street has no direct equivalent in Polish museology: alongside archaeology, history and ethnography it collects memorabilia of Father Jan Dzierżon (**1811–1906**), the father of modern beekeeping, born in Łowkowice…
Opole
The stretch of water called the Opole Venice, between the Cathedral and Castle bridges, is one of the most photogenic spots in Opole. Old-town tenements and the green banks of Pasieka Island reflect in the Młynówka, and after dark the scen…
Nysa
At 11 Biskupa Jarosława Street, in the old town of Nysa next to the Jesuit church, stands the Bishops' Palace — together with the neighbouring Bishops' Court, known as the bishops' castle, it forms the most important secular heritage compl…
Głogówek
In Rozkochow, a village in the Walce commune in the former Prudnik land, stands a two-storey Baroque palace laid out in the shape of letter U, with two forward-projecting wings and a mansard roof. The residence is adjoined by an almost **1…
Grodków
Near Grodków, by a set of ponds, stands a neo-Gothic palace whose history reaches back to a medieval knightly castle associated with the Knights Templar. After decades of neglect the palace-and-farm complex has regained its splendour: sinc…
Ozimek
Izbicko, a village in Strzelce county in the Opole region, lives to the rhythm of its palace — the most important building in the village. The residence from the **16th century** burned down three times and each time returned in a differen…
Żyrowa
In the central-eastern part of the Opole Voivodeship, between Leśnica, Gogolin, Strzelce Opolskie, Ujazd and Zdzieszowice, stretches the **Góra Świętej Anny Landscape Park**. Established in **1988**, it protects **5,051 hectares** of the C…
Strzelce Opolskie
Olszowa in the Ujazd municipality, a few minutes from the A4 motorway exit, is home to a park where the cathedrals of Paris, Cologne and Venice stand side by side on a few lawns. All the models were built at a scale of **1:25**, and the ta…
Ozimek
Krasiejów, a village in the Ozimek municipality **25 kilometres** east of Opole, became famous for the palaeontological excavations carried out here. Next to JuraPark — a palaeontological museum combined with an amusement park on the site…
gmina Lubsza
The park in Pokój, a village in Namysłów County in the Opole region, is all that remains of one of the most remarkable residences of eighteenth-century Silesia. The town was founded in 1769–1773 at the initiative of Duke Carl Christian Erd…
Strzelce Opolskie
The park in Strzelce Opolskie, a historic English-style garden embracing the town from the south, was begun in 1832 at the initiative of Count Andreas Maria Renard, then owner of the Strzelce castle. The count sent his gardener to London t…
Nysa
A few steps from the market square of Nysa, at the start of Wrocławska Street, stands a work described as a masterpiece of Baroque blacksmithing. The **Beautiful Well** of **1686** is one of the oldest town wells in the country, commission…
Żyrowa
Above the stone amphitheatre, on a limestone slope opposite the sanctuary of St. Anne, stands the Monument of the Uprising Act — a work by Xawery Dunikowski, unveiled on 19 June 1955 before crowds filling the amphitheatre walls. It is the…
Żyrowa
Krapkowice lie in Upper Silesia, in a place crossed by the **Odra and Osobłoga** rivers. The market square has preserved a typically medieval layout: around a fairly large square stand old town houses lined up side by side, cut through by…
Niemodlin
The market square in Niemodlin does not look like a classic market place — it has the shape of an elongated spindle. It is a rare example in Poland of a so-called street-square, formed by widening a through road, and the main reason to vis…
Nysa
The market square in Nysa is a medieval marketplace measuring about **200 by 100 metres**, shaped like a rectangle rounded at the south-western corner. The heart of the city still sets the direction of first strolls: historic, beautifully…
Prudnik
A rectangular square in the heart of the Old Town of one of the oldest towns in Upper Silesia, chartered under Magdeburg law in **1279**. In the centre stands the Baroque-Classical town hall of **1782** with a **63 m** tower, and at the co…
Moszna
Beside the historic palace park in Moszna, in the Krapkowice district, a stud farm has been shaping Polish thoroughbred racing for more than seventy years. The Moszna Stud Farm is both a breeding centre and a place where riding lessons, tr…
gmina Lubsza
In the bends of the former Odra riverbed in the Opole region stretches a landscape full of water. The Stobrawa Landscape Park, created in **1999**, protects around **300 oxbow lakes** — elongated, sickle-shaped lakes left in old river chan…
Żyrowa
The Opole Culinary Trail Bifyj, run by the Opole Regional Tourist Organisation, was launched in **2015** as a map of the flavours of Opole Silesia. Its name comes from the word “bifyj”, used in the local dialect for beef. The network inclu…
Prudnik
Prudnik, founded under Magdeburg law in **1279**, is one of the oldest towns of Upper Silesia. As early as the **14th century** it was surrounded by defensive walls with two gates: the Upper Gate, known as the Nysa Gate, and the Lower Gate…
Prudnik
Głuchołazy owe their fortifications to Wrocław bishop Przecław of Pogorzela, who around **1350** had the town surrounded by walls **5 metres** high and **2 metres** thick. Of the defensive structures it is chiefly the Upper Gate Tower that…