Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
149 places
Chrzanów
GEOsfera is the Ecological and Geological Education Centre in Jaworzno, arranged in the disused Sadowa Góra quarry. It combines an educational park, sensory garden and recreation area. The former quarry walls expose Triassic rocks more tha…
Krzeszów
The Głazy Krasnoludków Nature Reserve, also called the Gorzeszów Rocks, lies about 2 km south-west of Gorzeszów in Kamienna Góra municipality. It protects unusual sandstone weathering forms: a chain of rocks about 1,200 metres long hidden…
Kraków
On Kraków’s Main Square, at the junction of St Anne and Wiślna streets, lies a monumental bronze head with empty eye sockets and leather straps. This is **Eros Bendato** by Igor Mitoraj, a sculpture that has become one of the most recognis…
Święta Katarzyna
The Edmund Massalski Main Holy Cross Mountains Trail is the longest hiking trail in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. Red markers lead for approximately **105 km** from Gołoszyce to Kuźniaki, crossing the Jeleniowskie and Łysogóry ranges and t…
Częstochowa
Jasna Góra’s Golgotha is a cycle of **18 paintings** by Jerzy Duda-Gracz forming a contemporary Stations of the Cross at the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa. The paintings are displayed on the upper level of the entrance section of the…
Strzelno
Golgotha in Licheń Stary is a stone-and-concrete structure beside the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Licheń. It is about **25 m high** and takes the form of a winding path through a maze of passages, grottos, chapels, figures and reliefs. A cros…
Będzin
St Dorothy’s Hill, popularly known as Dorotka, rises in Będzin’s Grodziec district. The hill is **382 m above sea level** and makes a good short walk away from city traffic. A historic church of St Dorothy, built in 1635, stands at the top…
Tarnowskie Góry
Grojec Hill near Psary, in the Woźniki municipality, rises to **365 m above sea level** as the summit of a limestone hill set in the agricultural landscape of northern Silesia. Its slopes contain the Góra Grojec nature reserve, established…
Bytów
Leman Hill in Piaszno, Kashubia, is a small elevation reaching **220 m above sea level**, south of Bytów. A wooden viewing tower over 20 m high stands at the summit, while a reconstruction of a Gothic settlement and stone circles are nearb…
gmina Jastarnia
Libek Hill, also called Lubek, is the highest dune on the Hel Spit. It is about **12.5 m above sea level** and lies between Jastarnia and Kuźnica, in one of the most interesting natural sections of the Hel Peninsula. From the top, you can…
Chęciny
Miedzianka Mountain in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains is a rocky limestone summit of about **354 m above sea level** in the Chęciny municipality. The massif is protected as a nature reserve and is known for rock outcrops, karst features and…
Ojców
Okopy Hill in Ojców National Park rises above the Prądnik Valley near Ciemna Cave. The limestone massif combines geological, natural and historical interest. Its most important historic feature is the surviving fragments of the ramparts of…
gmina Pilica
St Peter’s Hill in Pilica is known as the cradle of the town. On the hill east of today’s centre, a historic wooden belfry survives from the church of St Peter and Paul. This small, quiet site combines the history of Old Pilica with views…
Częstochowa
The wooden Church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary in Boronów is a distinctive church in Silesian Voivodeship. The present building was erected in 1611 on the initiative of Count Andrzej Dzierżanowski. Its defining feature is the Greek-cros…
Ozimek
The Pilgrimage Church of St Anne in Olesno, known as the “Olesno rose turned into wood”, is one of Opole Silesia’s most unusual monuments. On Gorzowska Street, about 1.5 km from the centre, stands a pilgrimage church whose plan resembles a…
Racibórz
The pilgrimage Church of the Holy Cross in Pietrowice Wielkie is a wooden church on the road to Gródczanki, about 1.5 km from the village centre. It was built in 1667 at a site associated with a spring and the veneration of the Crucified C…
Stara Wieś
## Key information The parish church of St. Leonard the Abbot in Wierzbie near Praszka is an example of wooden religious architecture in northern Opole Voivodeship. Despite later alterations, it preserves the traditional Late Gothic form o…
Głogówek
The pilgrimage Church of St Brice in Bryksy is a wooden church hidden among old trees between Gościęcin and Kózki in Kędzierzyn-Koźle County. It belongs to the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gościęcin. ## History an…
gmina Ełk
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Ostrykół is one of the most distinctive wooden monuments in Masuria. It stands in a village by the Ełk River, in Prostki commune near Ełk. The present church was built in 1667 after the ear…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
## Key information The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Stara Wieś, near Wilamowice, is one of the most valuable historic wooden churches in this part of the Beskids. The present church was built in 1522; dendrochronological r…
Brenna
## Key information St. Anne’s Church in Ustroń-Nierodzim is a wooden monument of the Silesian Beskids. The present church was built in 1769 on the site of an older church. It stands on Zabytkowa Street, among trees beside a cemetery, on th…
Bugaj
The Church of St Erasmus in Barwałd Dolny stands on the road between Wadowice and Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. The present wooden church was built in 1782 and belongs to the Lesser Poland Wooden Architecture Trail. Its key feature is a 16th-cent…
Racibórz
On the edge of Baborów, in the Głubczyce Plateau, stands the wooden Church of St Joseph and St Barbara. The larch church was built in 1700–1702 on the site of a pilgrimage chapel. Its distinctive features are a Greek-cross plan and rich Ba…
Szczyrzyc
## Key information The Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria in Wilkowisko, in the Jodłownik commune, is a wooden church at the foot of the Island Beskids. It stands in the village centre beside the parish cemetery. The present building wa…