Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 placesgmina Kosakowo
On the eastern edge of the Darżlubska Forest, about **10 km** west of Puck, the Slavic Settlement has operated since **18 April 2015** — a reconstruction of an early medieval stronghold from the turn of the **9th and 10th centuries**. A pa…
Rzeszów
In the village of Stobierna in the Podkarpackie region, a few kilometres from Dębica, stands a wooden stronghold recalling the **8th and 9th centuries**, when the Wisłoka valley lay within the Vistulan state. At the end of the 9th century…
Święta Katarzyna
At the foot of Łysa Góra, on the opposite side from Nowa Słupia, the Medieval Settlement stands in Huta Szklana in the Bieliny commune — a dozen-odd reconstructed rural huts with full furnishings. The site belongs to the Centre of Traditio…
Zabrze
On Krakusa and Stalmacha streets, in the Małe Zabrze part of the city, one of the more interesting workers' colonies of Upper Silesia has survived. Zandka — the colloquial name of the complex, also called the Sand Colony (German: Sandkolon…
Tarnowskie Góry
The Equestrian Centre in Zbrosławice has operated since **1973**, when the Academic Equestrian Club from Katowice brought the first four horses here — within two weeks the stables held thirty animals, and an old mill became the club's base…
Ludźmierz
In Białka Tatrzańska, on national road 49 at the foot of the Tatras, runs the Bania Ski Resort — a compact ski centre linked by a slope to the neighbouring Kotelnica Białczańska. Four lifts, including a **four-seater chairlift**, serve slo…
Istebna
On the north-eastern slope of **Wielki Stożek (978 m above sea level)** in the Silesian Beskids, in the Łabajów district of Wisła, runs the Stożek Ski Centre. It is a pick for skiers who prefer quieter slopes than the big resorts — and for…
gmina Kroczyce
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, better known as the Jura, is a belt of white limestone outcrops stretching about **80 km** between Kraków and Częstochowa. The towers are built of hard Upper Jurassic limestones, and their present shapes were…
Ojców
The Prądnik Valley in the Ojców National Park is the best place to see what Jurassic limestone outcrops really are. The park was established in **1956** as the sixth in Poland and is also the smallest — it covers just **21.46 km²** — with…
Bytów
In Lubnica in the Okonek commune, some 15 km from Szczecinek, runs Owadogigant — an educational-recreational park displaying **models of insects at giant scale**. The models are made with great precision and attention to morphological deta…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
Baranowice Palace at 97 Zamkowa Street in Żory is a restored residence in Upper Silesia whose history reaches back to the **17th century**. It owes its present shape to a 19th-century rebuild by **Emil von Durant**, and after years of deca…
Nysa
At 11 Biskupa Jarosława Street, in the old town of Nysa next to the Jesuit church, stands the Bishops' Palace — together with the neighbouring Bishops' Court, known as the bishops' castle, it forms the most important secular heritage compl…
Tarnowskie Góry
Not far from Tarnowskie Góry rises the Neo-Gothic Donnersmarck Palace, modelled on English Gothic and Tudor architecture. Its tall tower, stepped gables and dormers with tent-shaped roofs make it one of the most recognisable monuments of t…
Stary Wiśnicz
At 6 Jana Goetza Okocimskiego Street in Brzesko stands one of the finest examples of Polish industrial-era residences from the turn of the 20th century — the Goetz Palace, called the „New Palace". It was built in **1898–1900** on the initi…
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…
Kłodzko
A few kilometres from the spa town of Polanica-Zdroj, tucked away in the Klodzko Valley, stands a palace that was falling into ruin at the beginning of the 21st century and today welcomes guests as a hotel with a restaurant. The village it…
Wieliczka
The late Baroque palace at Mieczysław Skulimowski square is one of the most interesting monuments of Wieliczka — today the seat of the Malopolska-Swietokrzyski branch of the Institute of National Remembrance, its walls holding traces of mo…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
On the main road leading to Bielsko-Biala, in the Bazaniec district, stands a Rococo residence surrounded by a historic park. The Kotulinski Palace on Zamkowa street is one of the more valuable relics of the former Cieszyn Silesia; today i…
gmina Żary
By the Bobr river, in the extensive Zagan park, rises one of the most magnificent surviving Baroque buildings in Poland. The Ducal Palace on Szprotawska street stands on the site of a medieval Piast castle, and its construction is tied to…
Kłodzko
On the bank of the Eastern Neisse, a few kilometres from Klodzko, two attractions work as one: an eclectic palace with a five-sided tower, and Folwark Szyfrow (the Cipher Farm) — an interactive museum in the old stone walls of the farm bui…
Będzin
A few steps from the Bedzin castle, in the green Gzichow district, stands a palace built in **1702**, whose successive owners recorded their position in the Duchy of Siewierz. The Baroque-Classical residence of the Mieroszewski family, als…
gmina Dobiegniew
Amid a park of more than **15 hectares**, not far from Dobiegniew and the Drawa National Park, stands the Neo-Gothic residence of the von Waldow family, which after decades as a state farm and six years of devastation became one of the bet…
Piekary Śląskie
In a forest between Zyglynek and Bibiela, a hamlet of Miasteczko Slaskie, hides a wooden hunting palace with striking, ornamented gables bearing yellow horns. It was built around **1890** by the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, owners of t…