Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Brzeg
Brzeg Castle is the former residence of the Piast dukes of Brzeg, and it owes its Renaissance form to **George II and Barbara of the Hohenzollerns**. Its design was modelled on Krakow's Wawel, hence the nickname **"the Silesian Wawel”**. T…
Szczecin
On Wzgórze Zamkowe (Castle Hill), right by the Odra river, stands the Renaissance residence of the **Gryfici (Griffins)**, the dynasty that ruled the Duchy of Pomerania. Destroyed in **1945**, the castle was rebuilt with such care that it…
Kraków
Kraków Zoo is set in Las Wolski, so a visit combines animals with a walk through one of the city’s greenest areas. Around 1,500 animals representing more than 270 species live across 20 hectares, including over 100 threatened species. ## P…
Poznań
**Poznań Fara**, the collegiate church and basilica on Gołębia Street, is one of Poland’s most important Baroque monuments. Its full dedication is to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Mary Magdalene and St Stanislaus. A few steps from the Old…
Jawor
**The Church of Peace in Jawor** is one of the two surviving Churches of Peace in Silesia and part of the UNESCO entry covering Jawor and Świdnica. The timber church was built in 1654–1655 to a design by Albrecht von Säbisch. Its restraine…
Supraśl
The monastery founded in **1501** by Aleksander Chodkiewicz, voivode of Nowogrudok, is Supraśl's foremost monument and one of the key centres of Orthodox Christianity in Poland. King Alexander Jagiellon confirmed the foundation in **1504**…
Kraków
The Reform synagogue at **24 Miodowa Street** in Kazimierz is one of the four still active synagogues of Kraków. Built between **1860 and 1862** to a design by Ignacy Hercok, it served from the outset as the main house of prayer for the ci…
Osowiec-Twierdza
A tsarist fortress built in the second half of the **19th century** in the Biebrza marshes, designed according to the Russian school of fortification with a fully developed polygonal system. In the early 20th century it ranked among the mo…
Łódź
The Jewish Cemetery at 40 Bracka Street in Łódź, known as the New Jewish Cemetery, was established in 1892. It is Poland’s largest Jewish cemetery by area, covering about 42 hectares, with around 160,000 surviving matzevot. It remains acti…
Kudowa-Zdrój
The **Skull Chapel in Czermna**, a district of Kudowa-Zdrój, is a Baroque ossuary and a place of remembrance for people who died in wars and epidemics. Thousands of human skulls and bones cover the chapel’s interior, while many more remain…
Przemyśl
**The Roman Catholic Archcathedral in Przemyśl**, dedicated to St John the Baptist and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is one of the city’s most important landmarks. Its story includes a Gothic presbytery, Baroque rebuilding and…
Kraków
At **40 Szeroka Street** stands the second oldest synagogue in Kraków — the Renaissance Remuh Synagogue, built by the merchant and royal banker Israel ben Josef in honour of his wife Malka. Originally called the “New” synagogue, it now bea…
Sromowce Niżne
Trzy Korony (**982 m**) is the highest peak of the Middle Pieniny, rising some **530 m** above the Dunajec river. On the tallest of its limestone crags — Okrąglica — a railed viewing platform awaits, holding around **30 people**. It opens…
Zakopane
Villa Koliba was the first house ever built in the Zakopane style, designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz and erected between **1892 and 1893**. This is where the history of Polish national style in architecture began. Since **1993** the buildin…
Bolków
Bolków Castle is one of the largest Piast strongholds in Lower Silesia. Its ruins cover **7,600 square metres** of Castle Hill (396 m above sea level), dropping away to the west in a 90-metre cliff above the Nysa Szalona river. From the wa…
Baranów Sandomierski
This late-Renaissance magnate residence, built between **1591 and 1606** to a design by Santi Gucci for Rafał Leszczyński, is one of the most treasured monuments of the Podkarpacie region. For its resemblance to the royal castle it earned…
Żywiec
The Żywiec Brewery has operated since 1856, when it was founded by Archduke Albrecht Frederick of Habsburg. The museum occupies former lagering cellars and tells the story of beer, Żywiec and the Habsburgs. Its multisensory exhibition intr…
Dębno
## St Michael the Archangel Church in Dębno The church in Dębno Podhalańskie, at 42 Kościelna Street, is one of Poland’s best-preserved Gothic wooden churches. The present building was erected in the second half of the 15th century using h…
Sandomierz
**The Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz** is a Gothic church on Cathedral Hill and one of the city’s most valuable landmarks. Its interior combines the foundation of Casimir the Great, later Baroqu…
Święta Katarzyna
Until **2018**, the western summit of Łysica with its cross (612 m) was considered the highest point of the mountain. Measurements taken in 2018 showed that Skała Agata — the rocky eastern peak — rises almost two metres higher, to **614 m…
Duszniki-Zdrój
The Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój operates in the only surviving paper mill of Lower Silesia, built before **1562** on the Bystrzyca Dusznicka river. Since **1968**, visitors have come for the exhibitions and the demonstration pa…
gmina Łubowo
Ostrów Lednicki, the largest of the five islands on Lake Lednica, is one of the most important places in Polish history — the probable site of the Baptism of Poland. Under Mieszko I and Bolesław the Brave it was a principal defensive and a…
Kozłówka
Kozłówka Palace was built in **1736–1742** for Michał Bieliński, voivode of Chełmno, most probably to a design by the Italian architect Józef II Fontana. From **1799** to **1944** it belonged to the Zamoyski family; today it houses the Zam…
Trzęsacz
All that remains of the Gothic church of St Nicholas in Trzęsacz is a 12-metre stretch of wall, 6 metres high, standing on the edge of the cliff. The church, built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, originally stood about **2 km f…