Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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Częstochowa
On the representative Alley of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the very centre of Częstochowa, a doctor sits on a bench — a book and a stethoscope lie beside him. This is a monument to **Dr Władysław Biegański**, the man who at the turn of the…
Istebna
On the summit of Cieńków Niżny (**720 m above sea level**) in the Silesian Beskids stands a bench with one of the pleasantest views above Wisła: **Czantoria** and **Czupel** line the horizon, **Lake Czernichów** glistens below, and sheep g…
Siewierz
In a corner of the Siewierz market square, in the shade of the fountain with the Siewierz Maidens, two gentlemen sit on a bronze bench — **Stanisław Hadyna** and **Zdzisław Pyzik**, creators of the song „Od Siewierza jechał wóz" („A Cart W…
Tykocin
At the corner of Farna and Dworna streets, right by the market square in Łomża, sits a woman in a huge hat — **Hanka Bielicka**, an actress who, though born far from these parts, spent her childhood and youth in Łomża. ## A Łomża woman by…
Sulejówek
A few steps from the Milusin villa, where Józef Piłsudski lived in **1923–1926**, stands a bronze bench titled "A History Lesson". The monument was unveiled on **10 June 2010** on Piłsudski Avenue, in the very centre of Sulejówek — a town…
gmina Ełk
By the Ełk river, between John Paul II Square and Lake Ełk, stretches the Nicolaus Copernicus Educational Park — and within it, next to a model of the Solar System, stands a bench with the figure of Poland's most famous astronomer. The par…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On the market square of Pszczyna, right next to the castle where she lived for years, a bronze Princess Daisy has sat down on a bench. The monument to Mary Theresa Olivia Hochberg von Pless was unveiled in **May 2009**; it is the work of P…
Siedlce
On Piłsudski street in Siedlce, in front of the seat of the Municipal Public Library, Stefan Żeromski has sat down on a bench. The monument was unveiled in **2011**, on the occasion of the reopening of the modernised library; its author is…
gmina Żary
On the market square of Żary, by the fountain and the town hall, sits a Baroque composer with a violin in hand. The bench of **Georg Philipp Telemann** was erected here in **2010**, the year of the celebrations of Żary's **750th anniversar…
Koniaków
On the summit of Kikula, called Trojak in Slovak (**845 m above sea level**), stands a structure that makes everyone look like a child: the **Lovers' Bench**, measuring **5.3 by 3 metres**. Officially it bears the name Lavička lásky a rodi…
Nowy Sącz
At the top of Miejska Góra hill in Stary Sącz begins a treetop path of over **200 metres**, ending at the Forest Pier — free, accessible to everyone and with a view that no ticket can buy. The structure was built in a joint cross-border pr…
Brenna
On the slope of Równica in the Zawodzie district of Ustroń, at Zdrojowa **16**, runs the Forest Park of Surprises — an unusual zoological garden where deer, mouflons and alpacas roam freely among visitors, and feeding the animals is one of…
gmina Niegowa
At Kościuszki Street in Żarki, on road **792** leading to Jaworznik, stands a small-leaved lime called Babka — a natural monument more than **500 years old**. The tree has kept barely a third of its trunk and the wood is partly rotten, yet…
gmina Jastarnia
Between Jastrzębia Góra and Rozewie, within the Coastal Landscape Park, the shore is cut by Lisi Jar — a ravine reaching **50 metres** deep, down which you can walk to the beach through entrance no. **19**. Not so long ago the ravine stret…
Podzamcze
From the basket of a balloon, the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland looks like a model: limestone outcrops, valleys and the ruins of the Trail of the Eagles' Nests castles spread out in one flat perspective. The most photographed point of the rout…
Kętrzyn
On Mickiewicza Street in Kętrzyn stands a two-storey villa in the spirit of English Gothic — the former seat of the Masonic lodge „Drei Thore des Tempels" („The Three Gates of the Temple"). The brotherhood had operated here since **9 Octob…
Szczyrzyc
Lubomir (**904 m above sea level**) is the highest peak of the Lubomir and Łysina Range and a point of the Crown of Polish Mountains — as the highest summit of the Makowski Beskids. The forested mountain does not promise sweeping views, ye…
Strzelno
Along the road from Kruszwica to Sompolno, not far from the Ślesin market square, stands one of the few triumphal arches in Poland. Locals call it **Napoleon's Gate**: it was erected in **1811** in honour of the Emperor of the French, who…
Chabówka
Maciejowa (**837 m above sea level**) is a peak in the Gorce Mountains, lying on the long ridge that runs from Turbacz all the way to Rabka-Zdrój — and one of the most easily accessible mountain walks in this part of the Beskids. The ridge…
Janowiec
A few kilometres from Kazimierz Dolny, in the village of Trzcianki near Janowiec, runs the first family theme park in Poland. Opened on **23 May 2014**, Magiczne Ogrody covers **18 hectares** of sculpted terrain planted with about **one mi…
Sucha Beskidzka
Above Maków Podhalański, on the northern side of the Skawa valley, rises Makowska Góra (**580 m above sea level**) — a wooded hill in the Koskowa Góra range turned into a viewpoint and walking spot. An asphalt road leads up from the market…
Szczyrk
Malinowska Skała (**1,152 m above sea level**) is a junction peak in the main ridge of the Barania Góra and Skrzyczne range in the Silesian Beskids. Here meet the borders of three villages — Wisła, Szczyrk and Lipowa — as well as the histo…
Kraków
Lesser Poland has **14 sites** on the UNESCO World Heritage List and almost all of them can be combined into a single driving loop of about **320 kilometres** starting in Kraków. The UNESCO List was created in **1978**, and its very first…
Czchów
The Lesser Poland Wine Trail connects vineyards scattered from the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland to the Ciężkowice Foothills. It was established in **2013** by the Gorce Tourism Organisation together with the regional authorities; at the start…