Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Sromowce Niżne
**Koziarz** (943 m above sea level) lies on the main ridge of the **Radziejowa Range** in the Sącz Beskids, in its western part, between Jaworzynka (936 m) and Suchy Groń (855 m). The summit itself is wooded, but since **2015** it has carr…
Bielsk Podlaski
In the Podlasie region, in the Narew valley south of Białystok, three villages — **Trześcianka, Soce and Puchły** — form the **Land of Open Shutters**: a cultural trail of timber architecture decorated with white and coloured shutters, woo…
Kraków
By the Matecznego roundabout in Kraków, in a park laid out on the site of the former spa, operates the **Krakowska Pijalnia Zdrojowa** — a mineral water pump room opened in **2021**, which after almost twenty years restored the locals' acc…
Warszawa
In winter the Baroque residence of Jan III Sobieski changes its face: the Royal Garden of Light, an exhibition of illuminated installations set to music, spreads along the alleys of the Wilanów Palace. In **2017** it was named the Best Tou…
Zakopane
Krupówki is the main axis of Zakopane — a pedestrian thoroughfare longer than **one kilometre**, closed to car traffic, where a stroll comes with oscypek sheep cheese, kierpce footwear and horse-drawn carriages. The street starts at the cr…
Święta Katarzyna
Beneath the monastery on Święty Krzyż, at the top of Łysa Góra, stretch crypts holding the coffins of former monks — some of the bodies mummified naturally in the cool, damp underground. In a separate chamber lies Prince Jeremi Wiśniowieck…
Wisła
In a wooded slope above Wisła, by the Kobyla housing estate, a roughly **10-metre** rock with a bench on top emerges from the ground. Krzakoska Skała, also called the Rock on Kobyla, rises at an altitude of **730 m above sea level** and is…
gmina Gryfino
The Crooked Forest near Gryfino is a small group of about one hundred Scots pines whose trunks bend into broad arcs close to the ground. The site lies in Nowe Czarnowo, about 4 km from Gryfino and near the Dolna Odra Power Plant. The trees…
Chałupki
At the crossing of Zabełkowska and Wiejska streets in Rudyszwałd, right by the border with Zabełków, stands a stone penitential cross — a monument to an old practice that today is recalled mainly by such stones. The exact year of its creat…
Radzionków
Above Radzionków, in the Tarnowskie Góry Ridge, rises Księża Góra, **357 m above sea level** — a hill that belonged to the church for centuries and is now the town's largest park. From the green slopes a panorama stretches over Radzionków,…
Łódź
Księży Młyn is Łódź's mightiest factory complex — a group of textile factories built on this ground from **1824** onwards, which in the 19th century became the industrial empire of Karol Scheibler. It was modelled on English industrial set…
gmina Niegowa
Near Żarki, at the northern edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the Częstochowa Upland comes to an abrupt end: towards the Varta pradolinya (ice-marginal valley) drops a steep rock scarp about **70 metres** high — the Jura cuesta, one o…
Zakopane
A kulig is a winter procession of horse-drawn sleighs combined with a feast around a bonfire — an entertainment whose history in Poland reaches back to the **16th century**. In Zakopane sleigh rides are organised daily, usually from **3 pm…
Tarnowskie Góry
In the middle of a forest between Kalety-Miotek and the town centre, roughly halfway along Paderewski street, lies a meadow that turns into a blue-violet carpet in June. This is when the **Siberian iris** blooms — a species under strict pr…
Rzyki
Łamana Skała (**929 m above sea level**) is the second highest peak of the Little Beskids — only Czupel is taller — and the highest point of the Andrychów Beskids. The summit is wooded, so do not expect broad panoramas, but the ridge hides…
Chorzów
Lampa Aladyna is a winter garden of lights laid out on the grounds of Legendia — the Silesian Amusement Park in Silesian Park in Chorzów, the oldest lunapark in Poland: it has operated since **12 September 1959** and has used its current n…
gmina Kroczyce
At the foot of Góra Zborów, a few steps from the Heritage Centre of the Jura in Podlesice, an open-air collection of stone witnesses to the history of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has been laid out. Each block has an information board, so…
Warszawa
On the southern edge of Warsaw, around Leśna, Moczydłowska and Nowoursynowska streets, stretches the reserve named after Stefan Starzyński — **902.68 ha** of forest protected since **11 August 1980**. It borders directly on the Ursynów hou…
Katowice
Contrary to the stereotype of Katowice as a city of nothing but chimneys, a fragment of mixed forest with natural features is protected within its limits — the Murcki Forest reserve, established in **1953** and enlarged in **1989** to **10…
Puławy
The Forest of Discoverers, a family theme park running since **2022** in the commune of Ułęż in the Lublin region, near Ryki and about **35 km** from Puławy, has no carousels, rollercoasters or even coloured pavement — all the attractions…
Kołobrzeg
At the mouth of the Wieprza river, at the base of the eastern breakwater in Darłówko, stands the lowest lighthouse on the Polish coast — only **22 metres** tall. Low does not mean weak: its light reaches nearly **30 km**, and the lighthous…
Żywiec
In the castle park in Żywiec, right next to the palace, a woman sits on a bench with a scarf bearing the Habsburg coat of arms in her hand. This is Archduchess **Alice Habsburg** — a Swede by birth who became a Pole by choice and, during W…
Kraków
By the Planty gardens, a few hundred metres from Wawel Castle (Podzamcze street), stands a bench with the figures of two eminent mathematicians — **Stefan Banach** and **Otton Nikodym**. It commemorates a chance meeting of **1916** from wh…
Wiślica
On the Busko-Zdrój promenade, in front of the cultural centre that bears his name, a man with a guitar sits on a bench shaped like a griffin's neck. This is **Wojciech Belon** — a singer and poet of the Ponidzie region, co-founder of Wolna…