Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
181 places
Wałbrzych
**The Collegiate Church of the Holy Guardian Angels in Wałbrzych** is a distinctive Neo-Gothic church in the city centre. Construction of the present building began in 1898 to a design by Alexis Langer, an important Neo-Gothic architect in…
Kłodzko
**The Franciscan Church in Kłodzko** and its monastery form a Baroque complex on Piasek Island, just beyond the Gothic bridge. The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary and the adjoining buildings are among Kłodzko’s most distinctive landmarks.…
Legnica
**St Mary’s Church in Legnica** is one of the oldest churches in Silesia. Its origins reach back to the second half of the 12th century, and a stone church recorded in 1192 preceded the present Gothic basilica. Also known as the Niederkirc…
Wałbrzych
**The Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Wałbrzych** occupies the town’s oldest church, on Garbarska Street. The small building has a history reaching back to medieval traditions, while its most valuable treasure is a Gothic Pietà venerated…
Ząbkowice Śląskie
**The Church of the Immaculate Conception and St Susanna in Stolec** is a Gothic monument in a former knights’ village near Ząbkowice Śląskie. Built at the end of the 13th century, it preserves a late-Gothic Holy Family triptych, 15th-cent…
Jaworzyna Śląska
**The Church of St Andrew the Apostle in Środa Śląska** is one of the town’s oldest monuments. Its walls combine remains of a late-Romanesque basilica, a Gothic presbytery and later Baroque furnishings, allowing several centuries to be rea…
Ząbkowice Śląskie
**St Anne’s Church in Ząbkowice Śląskie** is a Gothic hall church with valuable furnishings and a long history. Nearby stands the Leaning Tower, the former church belfry, so the two monuments form one of the town’s most important walking s…
Bolków
**St Hedwig of Silesia Church in Bolków** stands in the upper part of the market square, a few minutes’ walk from Bolków Castle. Its origins reach back to the mid-13th century, while centuries of rebuilding combined an Early Gothic history…
Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
In Kamieniec Ząbkowicki towers the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary — a Gothic, three-aisle hall church built by the Cistercians for over a hundred years, from **1247 to 1350**. It is a powerful cruciform building, today part of…
gmina Stronie Śląskie
**Kowadło** (989 m above sea level) is a border peak in the southern part of the **Golden Mountains** in the Eastern Sudetes, rising above the village of Bielice. The Germans called it Schmiedekoppe and the Czechs Kovadlina; on the Polish…
Legnica
In the Baroque church of St John the Baptist in Legnica survives the first Baroque funerary chapel in Silesia: the **Mausoleum of the Silesian Piasts** of 1677–1679. It was built for the last members of the dynasty and at the same time sta…
Wrocław
Grunwald Bridge is one of the most recognisable features of Wrocław’s cityscape and an interesting monument of engineering in its own right. It was built between 1908 and 1910 to connect the city centre with the expanding eastern districts…
Ząbkowice Śląskie
Ząbkowice Śląskie gained its defences in two stages: the first walls, partly timber-and-earth and partly of rough stone, were raised at the end of the **13th century**, and in the 14th century, under **Bolko II of Ziębice**, they were cons…
Świdnica
Świdnica, the medieval capital of the **duchy of Świdnica-Jawor**, was one of the best-fortified towns in Silesia. The first mention of its fortifications comes from **1285**, when Duke Henry IV Probus obliged the Jews of Świdnica to stand…
Ruda Sułowska
The Christmas Bauble Museum in Milicz occupies part of the **Creative Multifunctional Facility (KOM)**, built on the site of a former bauble factory. It is one of few institutions in Poland devoted entirely to glass decorations — the colle…
Wrocław
The National Museum in Wrocław at 5 Powstańców Warszawy Square has a particularly strong Lower Silesian identity. The institution’s collections contain more than 200,000 objects, while the main building is especially important for its medi…
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Wałbrzych
The Porcelain Museum in Wałbrzych provides one of the clearest explanations of why ceramics became such an important part of the city’s industrial identity. The institution was founded in 1908 and has been housed since 1926 in the Albertic…
Jawor
A few steps from the famous **Church of Peace**, in the former **Bernardine monastery complex from the 15th century**, operates the **Regional Museum in Jawor** — one of the best-preserved late-Gothic monastic complexes of Lower Silesia, t…
Wrocław
The Old Jewish Cemetery on Ślężna Street is now a branch of the City Museum of Wrocław and the city’s only surviving necropolis from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The first burial took place here in 1856 and the last in 1942. Ar…
Kudowa-Zdrój
At 46b Zdrojowa Street in the spa town of Kudowa-Zdrój operates a private Toy Museum, opened in **December 2002**. The collection leads visitors from antiquity to the 1980s, though most exhibits come from the 19th and 20th centuries. Child…
gmina Stronie Śląskie
The Museum of Earth in Kletno is a private collection of minerals and fossils assembled by the geologist Arnold Miziołek — a collector's passion that grew into one of the more interesting natural-history attractions of the southern Kłodzko…
Łupki
On the slope of Wielisławka (375 m above sea level) in Sędziszowa near Świerzawa, a formation unlike any other comes to light: vertical, regular columns of rhyolite that resemble the pipes of a giant organ. It is one of the most interestin…
Kłodzko
Above a valley a few kilometres from Bystrzyca Kłodzka, in the village of Gorzanów, towers a residence on the border between palace and castle — researchers have even identified medieval foundations of a knightly tower here. The present Re…
Zagórze Śląskie
Jedlinka Palace stands in Jedlina-Zdrój, in the Jedlinka district, at 8 Zamkowa Street. The history of the complex reaches the turn of the **13th and 14th centuries**, when a castle called Tannhausen stood here; the heyday of the palace an…