Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Piekary Śląskie
In a small grove on the hill between Orzech and Świerklaniec stands a round stone tower that for generations has evoked associations with a medieval stronghold. In fact it is an **artificial ruin from the 19th century** — a garden structur…
Henryków
On a rise by the old town of Strzelin stands one of the oldest stone buildings of Lower Silesia — the Romanesque rotunda of St. Gotthard. The central-plan church was probably built in the **first half of the 13th century**, though some sch…
Rabsztyn
On the edge of Klucze, by Bolesławska Street, a wooden platform spreads the arms of a giant compass rose over the sands. This unusual viewpoint introduces you to the Błędów Desert — the largest area of drifting sand in Poland, covering abo…
Smołdzino
The moving dunes in Słowiński National Park create one of the most unusual landscapes on Poland’s coast. Wind-blown sand forms pale ridges and hills between the Baltic Sea, the forest and Lake Łebsko. The most popular approach is from Rąbk…
Kraków
Main Market Square in Kraków is the heart of the Old Town and one of Europe’s largest medieval urban squares. It was laid out in 1257 on a roughly square plan, with sides exceeding 200 metres, where historic trade routes met. The square is…
Białystok
Kościuszko Market Square is the representative promenade and heart of Białystok, shaped under Hetman Jan Klemens Branicki, who gave it a new look after the town fire of **1753**. On the square rises the town hall with its clock tower, comp…
Chełmża
The Old Town Market Square is the oldest part of Toruń and the city’s main square, measuring **109 × 104 metres**. As early as the **13th century** cloth halls, bread benches, the town scale, a court and a market tower operated here; the w…
Bielsko-Biała
The market square in Bielsko-Biała is a rectangular place, sloping eastwards, measuring **80 by 60 metres**, on the Town Hill (Wzgórze Miejskie) where the town of Bielsko was founded at the beginning of the **14th century**. The shape of t…
Cieszyn
The market square in Cieszyn is a rectangular place with a Baroque well and the town hall in the southern frontage, shaped at the end of the **15th century**, when Duke Casimir II of Cieszyn sold the town two houses intended for a new seat…
Kołobrzeg
The market square in Darłowo, today Kościuszko Square, is the heart of the old town on the Wieprza river — a few steps separate it from the Gothic St. Mary's church and from the castle of the Pomeranian Dukes, the only seaside Gothic castl…
Gniezno
The market square in Gniezno lies on Maiden Hill (Wzgórze Panieńskie), one of the seven hills of Gniezno, in the heart of the city of the first Piasts. The square owes its present look to the rebuilding after the great fire of **1819**, wh…
gmina Dubeninki
Victory Square (Plac Zwycięstwa), the former market of Gołdap, was described in the **16th century** as the second largest market square in Prussia. In the middle stood a town hall, stalls were set up around it, and the market attracted me…
Kazimierz Dolny
The market square in Kazimierz Dolny is the central square of the town, laid out in the Middle Ages — probably at the turn of the **14th and 15th centuries**. Town status came under Casimir the Great, and in **1406** Władysław Jagiełło mov…
Kłodzko
The medieval market square of Kłodzko, today named after Bolesław Chrobry, surprises from the first steps: its surface slopes down noticeably, so the town houses in the corners stand at different heights. The rectangle, measuring roughly *…
Siewierz
Koziegłowy, today a small town in the Myszków county, owe their shape to a medieval town charter from the **14th century**. Its heart remains the market square, which for most of its history changed neither its building lines nor its funct…
Żyrowa
Krapkowice lie in Upper Silesia, in a place crossed by the **Odra and Osobłoga** rivers. The market square has preserved a typically medieval layout: around a fairly large square stand old town houses lined up side by side, cut through by…
Lanckorona
Lanckorona in the Wadowice county was a town for **268 years** — it received its town charter in **1366** and lost it in **1934**. That age-old order is still visible in the centre: the market square with its historic buildings remains the…
Łódź
Rynek Starego Miasta (Old Market Square) is the oldest square in Łódź, the place where the city began. Its present look says little about the medieval layout, but it was here that the route from Piotrków to Łęczyca ran, and behind the sout…
Lublin
The market square in Lublin is the central square of one of the more interesting old towns in Poland. The square is entered from Bramowa Street, and its centre is occupied by the massive building of the former town hall, known as the Tribu…
Niemodlin
The market square in Niemodlin does not look like a classic market place — it has the shape of an elongated spindle. It is a rare example in Poland of a so-called street-square, formed by widening a through road, and the main reason to vis…
Nowy Sącz
The market square in Nowy Sącz measures **150 by 120 metres** and constituted one twelfth of the chartered town of **1292**. Today, together with ten perpendicular streets, it forms the medieval chessboard layout of the old town, and both…
Ludźmierz
The market square in Nowy Targ is a rectangle measuring **138 by 110 metres** — as much as **1.5 hectares** of surface, laid out for the first time in **1346**, when the town was chartered. For long centuries fairs were held here; today th…
Nysa
The market square in Nysa is a medieval marketplace measuring about **200 by 100 metres**, shaped like a rectangle rounded at the south-western corner. The heart of the city still sets the direction of first strolls: historic, beautifully…
Olkusz
A square laid out in **1299** when the town was chartered forms the axis of the Old Town of Olkusz — **six streets** radiate from it, and around it stand town houses built mainly in the **18th and 19th centuries**. Beneath the pavement lie…