Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
91 places
Wiślica
Beneath the collegiate church in Wiślica, a small town in the Ponidzie region with over a thousand years of history, survive the foundations of two Romanesque churches that stood here before the Gothic basilica founded by Casimir the Great…
Chęciny
A limestone rock in the middle of the city: Kadzielnia rises in the south-western part of Kielce to **295 m above sea level**, and its rocks formed in the coral reef of a warm sea in the Upper Devonian. The hill's culmination is Skała Geol…
Opatów
An elongated rectangular square in the heart of the town, with a town hall from the turn of the **16th and 17th centuries** in the eastern frontage and an underground tourist route about **400 m** long, laid out in the medieval cellars ben…
Wiślica
The most representative building of Busko-Zdrój dates from **1836** and bears the name of its creator. The **Marconi Sanatorium** was designed by **Henryk Marconi**, a Warsaw architect of Italian descent, author among others of the Europej…
Sandomierz
The Sandomierz region is known for its loess ravines and monuments, but it was orchards that turned it into a horticultural power. The **Sandomierz Apple Trail** links about **40 sites** spread along **200 kilometres** of routes in a dozen…
Sandomierz
Vineyards have returned to the Vistula after centuries, and the Sandomierz land has special rights to it: the first vines were planted here as early as the **13th century**. The **Sandomierz Wine Trail** is a **60-kilometre** route through…
Pińczów
Pińczów divides into two centres: the Renaissance market square and the humbler **Mirów**, a former small town with its own church. The church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is today at once a parish church, home to the Franc…
Szydłów
In Pacanów, a town in the Ponidzie region known for Koziołek Matołek, stands the church of St Martin — the Sanctuary of the Dying Christ, raised in **2008** by Benedict XVI to the dignity of a minor basilica. The parish history reaches bac…
Chęciny
At the foot of Chęciny lies Tokarnia — the Ethnographic Park of the Museum of the Kielce Countryside and one of the largest open-air museums of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Founded in **1976**, it arranges dozens of wooden 19th-century…
Wiślica
In Busko-Zdrój, a sightseeing train called **Słoneczny Ekspres** runs along the promenade between the market square and the Spa Park. Colourful and battery-powered, these electric vehicles let you explore the resort town without effort — e…
Pińczów
On the slope below the forest in Wełecz near Busko-Zdrój grows a fairy-tale tree: the **Scots pine known as the Pine on Stilts**, which lifts itself above the ground on its own roots. The tree is about **100 years old**, and since **2002**…
Chęciny
When the Cistercians arrived on Polish lands in the **12th century**, their monasteries became centres of culture, economy and contact with Western Europe. The Cistercian Trail, established in September **1990** at the abbey in Mogiła near…
Pińczów
Paddling the Nida covers about **102 km** of a gentle lowland river in the Ponidzie region, from the bridge on national road No. 7 down to the mouth on the Vistula below Nowy Korczyn. The river’s source is taken to be the Biała Nida; toget…
Święta Katarzyna
A car route of **150 km** through the sites of the oldest industrial district in Poland: the Old-Polish Industrial District, the most industrialised region of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It links **thirteen** heritage-of-technology…
Chęciny
From the fields of Podzamcze Piekoszowskie rises a quadrangle with four hexagonal bastions — the former residence of the Tarło family, built in **1649–1655** on the model of the palace of the Kraków bishops in Kielce. The ruin still impres…
Szydłów
On the old road from Kraków to Sandomierz, in the Ponidzie region, stands a royal castle built around **1350** by Casimir the Great. The ruler took a liking to Stopnica: he granted the town a royal charter, surrounded it with defensive wal…
Szydłów
The royal castle of Szydłów sits on a slope above the Ciekąca stream valley, woven into the town's medieval walls. Both chroniclers Jan of Czarnków and Jan Długosz credit its construction to Casimir the Great, and together with the town fo…
Sandomierz
Beneath a townhouse on the market square known as Konwikt Boboli, with the entrance from Bartolona Street, hides a place where old weapons do not sit behind glass. The Knightly Armoury in Sandomierz, run by the Banner of the Knighthood of…
Wiślica
On the edge of Busko-Zdrój, off Stawowa Street right by the village of Łagiewniki, the Nida region reveals its geological peculiarity: hills of exposed gypsum, cut through by karst crevices known as “swallow tails”. This is Zimne Wody — a…