Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Chorzów
Silesian Park in Chorzów, formerly the Provincial Park of Culture and Recreation, covers about 535 hectares and ranks among the largest urban parks in Europe. It lies in the heart of the Upper Silesian conurbation, earned the nickname of t…
gmina Lubsza
The park in Pokój, a village in Namysłów County in the Opole region, is all that remains of one of the most remarkable residences of eighteenth-century Silesia. The town was founded in 1769–1773 at the initiative of Duke Carl Christian Erd…
Strzelce Opolskie
The park in Strzelce Opolskie, a historic English-style garden embracing the town from the south, was begun in 1832 at the initiative of Count Andreas Maria Renard, then owner of the Strzelce castle. The count sent his gardener to London t…
Piekary Śląskie
The park in Świerklaniec, between Tarnowskie Góry and Pyrzowice on road 78, is today a place for walks — and a memorable remnant of the residence of the Donnersmarck family, among the richest people in Europe a century ago. At its heart li…
Hajnówka
The Hajnówka Water Park, opened in 2009 at 3 Maja Street, is the most modern water sports and recreation facility in the Podlasie region. Hajnówka, called the gateway to the Białowieża Forest, lies on the route taken by most trips to Biało…
Kraków
The Kraków Water Park at 126 Dobrego Pasterza Street in Mistrzejowice is one of the largest indoor aquaparks in Poland and Europe. Construction began in April 1999 and was completed in just 13 months; the opening took place on 10 June 2000…
Legnica
Park Wrocławski in Lubin, located in the south-eastern part of the city on Wrocławska Street, covers 14 hectares and is both the oldest and the most nature-rich park in Lubin. Its origins reach back to the first decades of the nineteenth c…
gmina Niegowa
The green axis of Złoty Potok sets the rhythm of this Jura village: the historic park stretches along the Wiercica stream, next to voivodeship road 793, near the buildings on Kosciuszki Street. The old layout can still be read as a coheren…
Wiślica
The Spa Park covers **16 hectares** in the southern part of Busko-Zdrój and is the green heart of a resort famous for its sulphurous waters, whose smell has accompanied patients for almost two centuries. The landscape layout was created in…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
Goczałkowice-Zdrój is one of the few villages in Poland with full spa status, and its spa park, laid out at the beginning of the 20th century, forms the green axis of the village by the Goczałkowice Reservoir. Healing traditions go back to…
Wałbrzych
The Spa Park in Szczawno-Zdrój, bearing the name of violinist **Henryk Wieniawski**, was laid out in the English style on the slopes of Gedymin Hill, right by the town's main promenade. The layout was begun in **1812** at the behest of Dr…
Częstochowa
Between the centre of Częstochowa and the monastery on Jasna Góra stretch two municipal parks: **Stanisław Staszic Park** (5.45 ha) and **May 3rd Park** (6.39 ha). Their boundaries were marked out in **1819–1826**, when the representative…
Białystok
Białystok is sometimes called the green city — it has **eight municipal parks**, three of which define the identity of the centre. The oldest and best known is the Branicki Garden by the Baroque residence of the Branicki family, called the…
Warszawa
The complex of Sejm and Senate buildings at Wiejska Street **4/6/8** is the seat of the Polish parliament and one of the key monuments of the capital's political history. The parliamentary tradition here is older than the address itself: f…
Tykocin
On the western outskirts of Tykocin, by the backwaters of the Narew, lies a settlement that owes its fame to birds: **Pentowo** is the European Stork Village, the only place in Poland holding this title, awarded in **2001** by the internat…
Międzyzdroje
Piaskowa Góra is a viewpoint of Wolin National Park rising to just **53 m above sea level**, but it is not the height that does the work here — it is the perspective. The slopes drop steeply towards **Turkusowe Lake**, and the panorama tak…
Nysa
A few steps from the market square of Nysa, at the start of Wrocławska Street, stands a work described as a masterpiece of Baroque blacksmithing. The **Beautiful Well** of **1686** is one of the oldest town wells in the country, commission…
Sandomierz
On the steep Zamkowa street, at the junction with Żydowska street, between the Sandomierz market square and the castle, stands a monument impossible to pass indifferently: a **ring about a metre in diameter** set with a huge eye of striped…
Brenna
In the refreshed Ustroń Spa Park, on Sanatoryjna Street, a glass-walled Water Drinking Hall has been built whose architecture nods to Ustroń's famous wooden pyramids. It is one of the hearts of the resort — Ustroń is one of only two spa to…
gmina Węgorzewo
In a forest between Węgorzewo and Gołdap rises the only structure of its kind in Poland: a **pyramid** **15.9 m** tall on a square base of **10.4 × 10.4 m**. It was built in **1811** (according to some accounts in 1808 or even 1795) as the…
Lublin
Beneath the Lubomelski townhouse at Rynek 8 in Lublin hides an attraction that transports visitors back to the town's golden age: the **Cellar under Fortuna**. The townhouse's red façade with a Renaissance portal and attic is one of the mo…
Wiślica
Wiślica, today one of the smallest towns in Poland, was for centuries a significant hub on the merchant route running “from Prague to Kyivan Rus”. The heart of medieval trade was not the market square, however, but the **Salt Square** — a…
Roztoka Ryterska
Above the Poprad valley, on the summit of Wola hill (about **550 m asl**), rises the spiral viewing platform known as the “Snail”. The fanciful shape is not an architect's whim: the coiled structure is walked along a path that climbs in ci…
Święta Katarzyna
On the summit of Łysa Góra (**594 m asl**), also called Święty Krzyż (Holy Cross), a large viewing platform has been built. Its greatest asset is not only the panorama of the Świętokrzyskie ranges but what lies directly beneath your feet:…