Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Jaworzyna Śląska
Within the block of buildings in the middle of the market square of Środa Śląska hides a Gothic town hall raised in the **15th century** — although its oldest element is even older. The construction began with a tower built in the **first…
Stargard
The town hall in Stargard is one of the oldest monuments of the town — its history reaches back to the medieval **Merchants House of 1250–1280**. Today the Gothic building with stepped gables once again serves representative functions, and…
Bytów
At Wolności Square in Szczecinek stands a town hall from **1852** — a storeyed building of **red brick** on a rectangular plan, an example of eclecticism with a clear predominance of **Romanesque Revival** forms. It is one of those buildin…
Nidzica
The town hall in Szczytno stands out among Polish town halls for its construction and date: it is a **reinforced-concrete** building erected in **1936–1937** to a design by the Königsberg architect **Kurt Frick**, raised **partly on the ru…
Stara Wieś
Wieluń's town hall stands on the western side of the old town, directly adjoining the Gothic **Krakowska Gate** — the only surviving city gate in Wieluń. This late Classicist building from **1842** serves as the seat of the municipal autho…
Ruda Sułowska
The white, single-storey town hall in the middle of the market square in Zduny is one of the oldest monuments of this town in Greater Poland. The present building was erected in **1684** on the site of an earlier half-timbered structure th…
Sandomierz
From the water, Sandomierz looks different than from the hills above the town: the panorama of the old town rises from the level of the river, and the banks are overgrown with thickets full of birds. Vistula cruises depart from Stary Port…
Kazimierz Dolny
The marina on the Vistula boulevard is one of the liveliest spots in Kazimierz Dolny. During the tourist season boats depart all day long, and the offer is varied — both modern vessels and ships styled on the old Vistula river trade sail h…
Stara Wieś
Between the market square and the town hall in Wieluń, opposite the church of St Joseph, lie the exposed foundations of the town's oldest parish church — the collegiate church of St Michael the Archangel. The church was built at the turn o…
Wiślica
Beneath the collegiate church in Wiślica, a small town in the Ponidzie region with over a thousand years of history, survive the foundations of two Romanesque churches that stood here before the Gothic basilica founded by Casimir the Great…
Poznań
Under a shelter on the cathedral island of Ostrów Tumski in Poznań, right beside the cathedral, you can see the original cross-section of a **10th-century stronghold rampart** built in the times of Mieszko I. This is the Genius Loci Archae…
gmina Kosakowo
On the shore of Puck Bay, between Rewa and Rzucewo, stretch the coastal salt meadows of the Beka reserve — one of the last habitats of this kind on the Polish coast. The reserve was created in **1988** to protect the "słonawy", meadows fed…
Giżycko
In the heart of the Puszcza Borecka forest in Masuria lies the Borki forest reserve — established in **1958** on **232 ha** and enlarged in **2015** to **440.22 ha**. It protects the best-preserved central part of the forest: hornbeam-lime…
Chęciny
A limestone rock in the middle of the city: Kadzielnia rises in the south-western part of Kielce to **295 m above sea level**, and its rocks formed in the coral reef of a warm sea in the Upper Devonian. The hill's culmination is Skała Geol…
Krzeszów
On the slope of Krucza Skała (**681 m above sea level**), about 2 km south of Lubawka, striking porphyry intrusions in sedimentary rocks are protected. The Kruczy Kamień reserve was established in **1954** as a geological-landscape reserve…
Racibórz
A few minutes south of Racibórz, within the Cistercian Landscape Compositions of Rudy Landscape Park, lies one of the largest nature reserves of the Silesian Voivodeship — **477.38 ha** of ponds, riparian forests and oxbow lakes of the Ode…
gmina Mikołajki
Five kilometres east of Mikołajki lies a lake with one of the richest protection records in Poland. Łuknajno — **680 ha** of shallow water at **115 m above sea level**, connected by a channel to Lake Śniardwy — has been protected since **2…
gmina Niegowa
In a forest between Złoty Potok and Żarki hides one of the smallest reserves of the Jura: **Ostrężnik** covers only **4.1 ha**, was created in **1960**, and still holds a fragment of beech forest, a 14th-century stronghold and karst curios…
gmina Niegowa
The valley of the Wiercica stream in Złoty Potok is a place where nature meets literature and economic history. The „Parkowe” reserve was established on **3 September 1957**, and after enlargement in **2011** it covers **234.13 ha** of hil…
Rabsztyn
On the Ojców Plateau, between the villages of Podlesie and Pazurek, a fragment of the ancient Olkusz forests has been preserved. The „Pazurek” reserve protects beech woods full of wild garlic and hepatica, and at the same time one of the m…
Tarnowskie Góry
On the border of Bytom and Tarnowskie Góry, at the top of **Srebrna Góra (347 m above sea level)**, grows a forest that owes its existence to mining. The „Segiet” reserve was designated on **27 April 1953** to protect beech woods that had…
Częstochowa
South of the Jura town of Olsztyn rises a chain of limestone hills — Sokola Góra, Pustelnica, Puchacz or Donica — covered with forest and honeycombed with caves. The „Sokole Góry” reserve was created in **1953**; after boundary corrections…
Siewierz
On a hill by Cmentarna Street in Siewierz stands the Romanesque church of St. John the Baptist — one of the oldest preserved churches in Poland. It was probably built in **1144 or 1164**, funded by Piotr Włostowic, who is credited with fou…
Podzamcze
Near Ogrodzieniec, on a hill in the centre of Giebło, stands the oldest sacred monument of this part of the Jura: the single-nave church of St James the Apostle, built of dressed stone in the **mid-12th century**. It is one of the oldest r…