Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Przesieka
By the Kamienna river, in the Pakoszow district of Piechowice, stands a Baroque palace built in **1725** as the residence of Johann Martin Gottfried, mayor of Jelenia Gora. In its heyday it twice hosted King Frederick the Great of Prussia,…
Głogówek
In Rozkochow, a village in the Walce commune in the former Prudnik land, stands a two-storey Baroque palace laid out in the shape of letter U, with two forward-projecting wings and a mansard roof. The residence is adjoined by an almost **1…
Kozłówka
The most representative building of Lubartów is the Baroque Sanguszko Palace on Słowacki Street, entered in the register of monuments together with its orangery, gate, small bridge and park. It now houses the county office, and its interio…
Grodków
Near Grodków, by a set of ponds, stands a neo-Gothic palace whose history reaches back to a medieval knightly castle associated with the Knights Templar. After decades of neglect the palace-and-farm complex has regained its splendour: sinc…
Korzkiew
A few minutes from Kraków's airport, on the northern side of the A4 motorway, among the old trees of a historic park stands the grand palace known as the Radziwiłł residence. The site's history reaches back to **1519**, when Seweryn Boner…
Wrocław
South-west of Wrocław, in the Kobierzyce commune, stands a Baroque palace from the first half of the 18th century. After years under military and state-farm management the complex returned to private hands and was meticulously restored — t…
Tarnowskie Góry
From the main road of Brynek, a village near Tarnowskie Góry, the domes of an eclectic palace with two towers topped by onion helmets peer through the trees. The residence, today home to the Forest and Ecological Schools Complex, travelled…
Radzionków
On Dzierżoń Street in Bytom-Miechowice, near the Church of the Holy Cross, stands the restored outbuilding of the former Tiele-Winckler palace. The palace itself — so grand it was called a castle — is gone: it burned in **1945**, and the g…
gmina Przygodzice
The south-eastern part of Dobrzyca is occupied by a classicist palace set in a landscape park laid out in the English style. The residence was built in **1798–1799** for General Augustyn Gorzeński — adjutant and head of the military chance…
Wrocław
Near Miękinia, west of Wrocław, amid a park flowing into riverside forests stand the ruins of an eclectic palace. The place looks bleak, but its history written since **1561** and the surviving details — coats of arms, German inscriptions,…
Ozimek
Izbicko, a village in Strzelce county in the Opole region, lives to the rhythm of its palace — the most important building in the village. The residence from the **16th century** burned down three times and each time returned in a differen…
Tarnowskie Góry
By the Zielona reservoir, in the part of Kalety separated from the town centre by a forest, stands the former hunting residence of the Donnersmarcks — one of the richest families of Upper Silesia. The historic building, listed in descripti…
Drohiczyn
On the Bug river, not far from Drohiczyn, stands a residence called the Pearl of Podlasie. The palace in Korczew began as the Baroque foundation of Castellan Wiktoryn Kuczyński in **1734**, and its present shape is the result of the interw…
Tarnowskie Góry
Late-classical residence in Lubliniec County, since **1953** the home of the Stanisław Hadyna Song and Dance Ensemble „Śląsk”. The site's history goes back to the Middle Ages, while the palace owes its present shape to the remodelling of *…
Racibórz
A tower-ringed residence near Racibórz, known as the pearl of the Racibórz Land, ranks among the largest palaces of Upper Silesia: it offers about **4,000 square metres** of floor space, **115 rooms** and **30 cellars** forming a labyrinth…
Szydłów
On an artificial embankment amid the former floodplains of the Czarna river stands one of the more interesting strongholds of the Świętokrzyskie region: a castle from the **14th century** that over the centuries evolved into a Baroque-Clas…
Racibórz
Beside the road from Racibórz to Rudnik, Neo-Gothic ruins of the Eichendorff palace rise from the park — an important site among the monuments of Romanticism in Poland. In **1788** the poet **Joseph von Eichendorff**, the singer of wanderi…
Ruda Sułowska
A classicist palace by the Barycz river, built in **1797–1798** to a design by Karl Geissler for Joachim Karl von Maltzan, served the Maltzan family until the end of the Second World War. Today it houses a forestry secondary school, yet th…
Chrzanów
The palace at Młoszowa is one of the strangest residences of Lesser Poland: a Neo-Gothic palace pretending to be a medieval castle. Its owner, Juliusz Florkiewicz, invented an entire story of a stronghold destroyed by the Swedes, drew up a…
Siedlce
A crumbling classicist palace in Mordy, on the borderland of Podlasie and Mazovia, testifies to the history of one of the wealthier families of the Siedlce region. The residence was raised in **1717** on the groundworks of a fortified mano…
Nowy Sącz
A few kilometres south of Nowy Sącz, among the old trees of the Stadnicki park, stands a palace whose lineage reaches back to the 16th century. Today it houses the Małopolska Agricultural Advisory Centre, and its body retains the shape giv…
Brzeg
The baroque palace in Oleśnica Mała, a short drive east of Oława in Lower Silesia, stands on ground where Silesian history interweaves threefold: the Templars, the Hospitallers and a Prussian field marshal's family. Duke Bolesław I the Tal…
Siedlce
Between Sokołów Podlaski and Siedlce, amid the fields of southern Podlasie, stands one of the region's most interesting residences: the neo-Gothic palace in Patrykozy. Its story begins with the November Uprising — the founder was General T…
gmina Pilica
The palace in Pilica, also called the castle, is one of the most unusual residences of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland: a palazzo in fortezza, an Italian villa built into a bastion fortress. The late-Renaissance residence was begun shortly b…