Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Waterfalls
Cisna
Here the Wetlinka river squeezes through slanting layers of rock, forming ledges, cascades and deep blue-green whirlpools – the "sine wiry" that gave the reserve its name. Sine Wiry in the western Bieszczady Mountains protects some 445 hec…
Museums
Przeworsk
You can spend the night in the manor house from Krzeczowice and have lunch in the former home and smithy of the Sowiński family. Pastewnik in Przeworsk is called a "living open-air museum" because its wooden houses, saved from demolition,…
Museums
Sanok
The Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok, known locally as the Sanok skansen (open-air museum), is one of the largest open-air museums in Poland. Spread over 38 hectares of hillside above the San River, it brings together more than 180 his…
Ski resorts
Ustrzyki Dolne
The Gromadzyń Ski Station sits on the northern slope of Mount Gromadzyń (655 m above sea level), right above Ustrzyki Dolne – the town centre is about 1.7 km away. It is one of the town's best-known attractions and one of a handful of smal…
Landmarks
Łańcut
The Łańcut Synagogue (say "WAHN-tsoot") is an 18th-century Baroque synagogue on Sobieski Square, right next to the park of Łańcut Castle in southeastern Poland. Its plain exterior hides one of the finest surviving synagogue interiors in th…
Landmarks
Lesko
The Lesko Synagogue ("LESS-ko") is one of the finest surviving Jewish monuments in southeastern Poland and the most striking building in Lesko, the small town known as the gateway to the Bieszczady Mountains. Built of stone in the 17th cen…
Historic sites
Łańcut
The Lubomirski Family Seats Trail links places where one of the most powerful families of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had residences or founded churches, monasteries and schools. The route was devised and organised by the Region…
Fortifications
Przemyśl
Przemyśl Fortress (say "PSHEH-mishl") is a ring of Austro-Hungarian forts around the town of Przemyśl in southeastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border. In 1914–1915 it endured one of the longest sieges of World War I, and its fall mad…
Mountains & peaks
Ustrzyki Górne
From the top of Wielka Rawka you can see Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine at once – and on a very clear day even peaks more than 140 km away. This 1,307-metre summit is the highest point of the border ridge in the Western Bieszczady and offers…
Viewpoints
Żubracze
The tower stands right next to the tarmac, so you can climb it straight from your car – no hike and no ticket needed. This wooden structure on Przysłup Pass (749 m above sea level) is named after a village that no longer exists: Szczerbanó…
Castles
Odrzykoń
Kamieniec Castle in Odrzykoń (kah-MYEH-nyets, oh-jeh-KOHN) is a romantic Gothic ruin on a rock at 452 m above sea level, a few kilometers from the town of Krosno in southeastern Poland. A feud between two families over a wall that split th…
Castles
Lesko
In 1767 the cellars of Lesko Castle held 122 bottles of Hungarian wine, 64 barrels and several casks of mead – the household inventory of a residence that over four centuries changed hands many times, burned and was rebuilt. Kmita Castle i…
Castles
Sanok
Sanok Royal Castle (Sanok is pronounced roughly "SAH-nock") is a Renaissance residence on a bluff above the San River in southeastern Poland, and today it houses the Historical Museum in Sanok. Its biggest draw is the world's largest colle…
Castles
Rzeszów
Rzeszów Castle, also called the Lubomirski Castle, is a monumental building ringed by massive Baroque bastions and a moat, a few minutes' walk from the main square of Rzeszów (say "ZHEH-shoof"), capital of the Podkarpackie region in southe…
Castles
Lesko
On a wooded hill above a bend of the San river, by the road from Lesko to Sanok, stand the ruins of the Kmita family's medieval stronghold. Sobień Castle is sometimes called the historic Gateway to the Bieszczady Mountains. Since summer 20…
Castles
Tarnobrzeg
Dzików Castle, also called the Tarnowski Castle, in Tarnobrzeg (say "tar-NOH-bzheg") is a former magnate residence set in a landscaped park in southeastern Poland. Today it houses the Historical Museum of the City of Tarnobrzeg and the Dzi…
Technical monuments
Solina
Solina Dam (pronounced roughly "so-LEE-na") is the tallest dam in Poland and one of the icons of the Bieszczady region in the country's southeastern corner. Its concrete wall, 82 m (269 ft) high and 664 m long, holds back the San River to…