Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
181 places
Kłodzko
A few kilometres from the spa town of Polanica-Zdroj, tucked away in the Klodzko Valley, stands a palace that was falling into ruin at the beginning of the 21st century and today welcomes guests as a hotel with a restaurant. The village it…
Kłodzko
On the bank of the Eastern Neisse, a few kilometres from Klodzko, two attractions work as one: an eclectic palace with a five-sided tower, and Folwark Szyfrow (the Cipher Farm) — an interactive museum in the old stone walls of the farm bui…
Przesieka
By the Kamienna river, in the Pakoszow district of Piechowice, stands a Baroque palace built in **1725** as the residence of Johann Martin Gottfried, mayor of Jelenia Gora. In its heyday it twice hosted King Frederick the Great of Prussia,…
Wrocław
South-west of Wrocław, in the Kobierzyce commune, stands a Baroque palace from the first half of the 18th century. After years under military and state-farm management the complex returned to private hands and was meticulously restored — t…
Wrocław
Near Miękinia, west of Wrocław, amid a park flowing into riverside forests stand the ruins of an eclectic palace. The place looks bleak, but its history written since **1561** and the surviving details — coats of arms, German inscriptions,…
Ruda Sułowska
A classicist palace by the Barycz river, built in **1797–1798** to a design by Karl Geissler for Joachim Karl von Maltzan, served the Maltzan family until the end of the Second World War. Today it houses a forestry secondary school, yet th…
Brzeg
The baroque palace in Oleśnica Mała, a short drive east of Oława in Lower Silesia, stands on ground where Silesian history interweaves threefold: the Templars, the Hospitallers and a Prussian field marshal's family. Duke Bolesław I the Tal…
Ruda Sułowska
Above the Barycz valley in Żmigród stretch the ruins of the residence of the Hatzfeldts, one of the wealthiest families of Silesia. The complex owes its present shape to the Baroque rebuild of **1706–1708**, carried out by the Wrocław arch…
Łomnica
On the Bóbr river, in the Jelenia Góra valley between Jelenia Góra and Janowice Wielkie, stands Wojanów Palace — a residence in the style of romantic neo-Gothic, surrounded by one of the most interesting gardens of the Sudetes. The Wojanów…
Wałbrzych
On the edge of Wałbrzych's Lubiechów district, at 158 Wrocławska Street and barely **1.8 km from Książ Castle**, stands one of the oldest palm houses in Poland. It was built in **1911–1913** on the orders of Henry XV von Pless as the **win…
Świdnica
Central Park stretches slightly south of the Old Town of Świdnica, within the outline of Śląska, Pionierów, Lipowa streets and Plac Ludowy. After the thorough revitalization carried out in recent years it is the most polished green space o…
Wrocław
On the grounds of Zamek Topacz in Ślęza, right at the edge of Wrocław, operates the Park of Illuminations — a **1.5 km** trail lit by more than **500,000 points of light** and over **20 kilometres** of light chains, all based on energy-sav…
Legnica
**Municipal Park** is the oldest and largest park of Legnica — **58 hectares** of greenery in the central part of the city, in the Old Town and Ochota areas. Its boundaries are marked by, among others, Wilson Square, Orła Białego avenue, Z…
Legnica
Park Wrocławski in Lubin, located in the south-eastern part of the city on Wrocławska Street, covers 14 hectares and is both the oldest and the most nature-rich park in Lubin. Its origins reach back to the first decades of the nineteenth c…
Wałbrzych
The Spa Park in Szczawno-Zdrój, bearing the name of violinist **Henryk Wieniawski**, was laid out in the English style on the slopes of Gedymin Hill, right by the town's main promenade. The layout was begun in **1812** at the behest of Dr…
Wałbrzych
Half a kilometre of concrete corridors and halls, carved 50 metres beneath the Honour Courtyard of the third-largest castle in Poland. The underground of Książ is an unfinished Second World War project, opened to visitors only in 2019 — an…
Kłodzko
Six hundred metres of corridors run beneath the old town of Kłodzko at the foot of the fortress, dug by the town's inhabitants since the 13th century. The underground served as goods warehouses and craft workshops, the famous Kłodzko beer…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 *…
Świdnica
The market square of Świdnica is the heart of an urban ensemble that specialists rank as the most valuable in all of Lower Silesia, comparing the old town with Kraków and Toruń. The war spared the town, so townhouses with relics of Gothic…