Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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On a September weekend the town of Poręba smells of slow-roasted potatoes — this is where, in the northern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, a dish with the status of a regional treasure was born. Prażonki are potatoes roasted for hou…
Olsztyn
Below Płock’s old town, on the Stanisław Górnicki Embankment, runs a riverside boulevard with one of the more interesting solutions on Polish rivers: a pier more than **350 metres** long that does not jut perpendicularly into the Vistula b…
Kamień Pomorski
In Dziwnów the promenade runs along the beach, and its older section enters the forest. The biggest draw, however, is the newest stretch: the **Western Promenade** follows the crest of a dune among low coastal vegetation, so nothing blocks…
Międzyzdroje
The busiest and most colourful spot in Międzyzdroje is the seaside promenade along Bohaterów Warszawy Street. Lining it is resort architecture, and the cafés and restaurants make evenings the liveliest time in town. ## The town’s symbols b…
Sromowce Niżne
The resort promenade of Szczawnica leads along the Grajcarek stream, on regulated banks on both sides of the water. It is about **1,800 metres** long and is sometimes called the longest boardwalk in Poland — yet it remains wide and calm en…
Bystra
**Karkoszczonka (729 m)** is a deep pass in the main ridge of the Silesian Beskids, lying between Trzy Kopce (1,082 m) to the north and Beskidek (860 m) to the south. For centuries it has been the lowest and most convenient crossing betwee…
Soblówka
**Przegibek Pass (1,000 m)** lies in the Worek Raczański, part of the Wielka Racza group on the Polish-Slovak border, and has long attracted those who like mountain clearings with views. The grassy saddle, the PTTK mountain hut and a sheph…
Szczyrk
**Salmopol Pass (934 m)**, next to Kubalonka, is the most important road pass of the Silesian Beskids. Provincial road **942** runs through it, linking Wisła with Szczyrk and Bielsko-Biała — a route famous for its hairpin bends and sweepin…
Dębno
Słopnicka Pass lies at about **750 m above sea level** in the heart of the Beskid Wyspowy range, in the saddle between Cichoń (929 m) and Zapowiednica. An asphalt road from Słopnice to Zalesie runs across the pass, along with the boundary…
Częstochowa
Przeprośna Górka (296 m a.s.l.), also called Gąszczyk, rises in Siedlec near Mstów, right at the border of Częstochowa. On its summit stands the church of the Eight Blessings of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael — the first…
Ojców
In the heart of Ojców National Park, in the Prądnik Valley below the well-known Jonaszówka viewpoint, runs Pstrąg Ojcowski — a trout farm and eatery serving fish from its own ponds. It is only a **10-minute** walk from the car park below t…
gmina Niegowa
The Raczyńscy Trout Farm in Złoty Potok, in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, has been operating for over **120 years** and is regarded as the oldest trout farm in Europe. It was founded in the 19th century by Count Edward Raczyński, who used…
Ochotnica Górna
In Łopuszna in the Podhale region, by the voivodeship road no. 969 from Nowy Targ to Krościenko, the Pstrąg guesthouse serves fish from its own farm. It is the only establishment in the region running its own trout farm, so the fish always…
gmina Niegowa
On the Poraj Reservoir — a dam reservoir on the Warta river created in **1978** south-west of Poraj — lies Bird Island, a natural refuge for water birds. It is best viewed from the side of the village of Kuźnica Stara in the commune of Por…
gmina Jastarnia
Right by the harbour in Władysławowo, on the Bay of Puck, operates Ptaszarnia — a roofed tropical garden in which more than **100 exotic birds** fly freely around visitors. This is not a classic caged zoo but an open space where the guest…
Ojców
Above the Prądnik Valley, on the summit of the Długa rock in Grodzisko near Skała, stands the hermitage complex of Blessed Salomea: a Romanesque hermitage from the **13th century**, a Baroque church and prayer huts. The site lies on the ro…
gmina Niegowa
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has two deserts: the well-known Błędowska Desert and the far more modest Siedlec Desert. The latter covers about **25 ha** in Siedlec near Złoty Potok, in the commune of Janów, a few kilometres from the Twardo…
Chabówka
Rabkoland is a family amusement park in Rabka-Zdrój, operating since **1988** on an area of about **2 ha** above the Poniczanka and Raba streams. It belongs to the first amusement parks in Poland and underwent a complete modernization in *…
Szczytna
South of the town of Radków, right by the Szosa Stu Zakrętów road, one of the harshest corners of the Table Mountains begins. The **Radków Rocks** are a rock city built of Upper Cretaceous sandstone — bastions, pillars and a continuous roc…
Sromowce Niżne
A pontoon trip is the most comfortable way to see the famous bends of the Dunajec without any paddling effort. The route leads through the **Dunajec River Gorge in the Pieniny** — a section about **8 km** long between Sromowce Niżne and Sz…
Sromowce Niżne
The Pieniny are the shortest route to water-based thrills in the Polish mountains. Here the Dunajec cuts through the range of the Pieniny Właściwe with its famous gorge — a section about **8 km** long between Sromowce Niżne and Szczawnica,…
Jawor
On the market square in Jawor stands a town hall whose tower reaches back to the Middle Ages and whose present body comes from the end of the 19th century. Its current form was created after a fire in which only the tower survived. Today t…
Ruda Sułowska
Above the market square in Krotoszyn rises a slender, **octagonal tower in the Baroque style** — the most recognisable element of the local town hall. The building itself has two boundary dates: the masonry structure was erected around **1…
Siedlce
The town hall in Siedlce is colloquially called **Jacek** — after the statue of Atlas at the top of the tower, which legend says was modelled on a local blacksmith. This late-Baroque and Classicist building, laid out on a Greek cross plan,…