Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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Prudnik
On Skłodowska street in Głuchołazy stands the small church of St Roch, a filial church of the St Lawrence parish — a place born of plague. The first chapel was erected here in the mid-**14th century**, when Europe was ravaged by the epidem…
Wieliczka
## Key information St. Sebastian’s Church at 23 Świętego Sebastiana Street is one of Wieliczka’s most valuable wooden monuments. This small larchwood church stands on a hill among old trees, close to the town centre and the salt mine. It i…
Wiślica
## Key information The Church of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr in Świniary, in the Solec-Zdrój commune, is a wooden monument in the Ponidzie region. Built in 1716, it was funded by Michał Zieliński, dean of Liw. It is an oriented, singl…
Drohiczyn
In Knychówek, a village in the commune of Korczew, stands the Church of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr, and St. Anne — a **mid-17th-century** temple whose founders were related to King Jan III Sobieski. ## From the Korczewskis to the Wi…
Janowiec
At the foot of Castle Hill in Janowiec, a few steps from the market square, stands the Church of St. Stanislaus and St. Margaret — a late-Renaissance temple of white limestone and brick, with the Firlej castle towering above it on the othe…
Wiślica
The Gothic church of St Stanislaus in Nowy Korczyn is a former Franciscan monastery church and one of the oldest monuments of the Nida valley. It was founded in **1257** by Duke Bolesław Wstydliwy (the Chaste) and his wife Kinga, later a s…
gmina Niegowa
On Laskowiec hill, a limestone ridge near the centre of Żarki in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the tidied-up ruin of the church of St Stanislaus. The masonry church was built after **1763** of quarried limestone, on the site of a w…
Czorsztyn
In Frydman in the Spiš region, by the road along the Białka river, stands the oldest monument of sacral architecture in the whole Podtatrze area: the church of St. Stanislaus. Its Early Gothic core was most probably built at the turn of th…
gmina Niegowa
By the Old Market Square in Żarki stands the parish church built in **1518–1522** at the initiative of Marcin Myszkowski, castellan of Wieluń. Its full dedication reads: church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of Sts Simon and Jude…
gmina Przygodzice
St. Thecla’s Church stands right at the market square of Dobrzyca in the Pleszew county — a wooden church that twice had to start over after fires. The present building was raised in **1778**, and its history reaches back to the **14th cen…
Moszna
In the northern part of Korfantów, on a low hill, stands the Holy Trinity church — usually the first building a visitor to the town sees. The oldest part of the church can be recognised by its granite portal; its appearance suggests the ch…
Wiślica
A few dozen metres from the market square of Nowy Korczyn stands the parish church of the Holy Trinity, raised on the site of a wooden medieval church of St Elizabeth and St Lawrence, burned in **1608**. The present temple was built in **1…
Chorzów
On ks. Ludwika Tunkla street in Kochłowice, a district of Ruda Śląska, rises the church of the Holy Trinity, a building that combines Romanesque Revival with Gothic Revival. Work began in **1900**, and the church was consecrated as early a…
gmina Przygodzice
By national road 11 running from Poznań to Bytom, not far from the palace in Witaszyce, stands the so-called Small Church — the church of the Holy Trinity. The history of the local church goes back to **1389**, when it bore the dedication…
Niemodlin
The parish church of St Lawrence in Dąbrowa near Opole is one of the best documented churches in the Opole part of Upper Silesia. Its own parish priest — „Nicolaus plebanus in Dambrova" — is already listed in a tithe register from **1305**…
Prudnik
The twin-towered church of St Lawrence stands almost on the market square of Głuchołazy, at the foot of Góra Parkowa in the Opole region. A document from **1285** mentions the parish and its priest Rudolf, while church building here goes b…
Wiślica
In Gorysławice, right next to Wiślica in the Ponidzie region, stands the Gothic Church of St. Lawrence — a stone, oriented temple from **1535**, built through the efforts of the local parish priest, Father Józef Dałowicz. In the past these…
Ruda Sułowska
The parish of St Lawrence in Koźmin Wielkopolski was erected in **1318**, and the present brick church was built in **1462** thanks to Hińcza of Rogów, then owner of the Koźmin estate. This three-aisled basilica is counted among the more i…
Święta Katarzyna
At the foot of Łysa Góra, in the small town on the road leading to Święty Krzyż, stands the stone church of St Lawrence — a witness to seven centuries of the Holy Cross Mountains. The parish is first mentioned in a Peter's pence register f…
Zabrze
On Kościelne Hill in Zabrze-Mikulczyce stands the neo-Gothic church of St Lawrence — a church with an exceptionally well documented Upper Silesian history. The parish paid Peter's pence as early as **1326**, and according to the parish pri…
Olsztyn
The oldest monument of Sierpc is the parish church of St Vitus, Modest and Crescentia on the Old Town. Tradition links the founding of the parish with the year **1003**, and according to local accounts the first chapel was built here on th…
Szydłów
Szydłów, famous for its preserved town walls, owes its parish church to King Casimir the Great himself: the Gothic church of St Ladislaus was raised around **1355** on the site of an older wooden temple. The foundation had a penitential di…
Korzkiew
The Church of St Adalbert and Our Lady of Sorrows in Modlnica is one of the most valuable wooden monuments near Kraków. It stands at 81 Świętego Wojciecha Street, near the road to Olkusz, and belongs to the Wooden Architecture Trail of Mał…
Żywiec
In the upper part of Jeleśnia, on the road leading to the Polish-Slovak border crossing at Korbielów, stands the baroque church of St Adalbert — the most important monument of this large Beskid village. The present church was built at the…