Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Racibórz
The Upper Odra Festival is a three-day celebration held across western Silesia. It combines concerts, workshops, tours, outdoor activities and local food. The sixth edition took place from 26 to 28 June 2026 in places including Rybnik, Rac…
Siewierz
The Siewierz Maidens Fountain stands on the Market Square in Siewierz, close to the ruins of the Kraków Bishops’ Castle. This free outdoor attraction works well as a short stop, photo spot or break during a trip through the Kraków–Częstoch…
Gliwice
Funzeum in Gliwice is the interactive Centre of Children’s Imagination in the Europa Centralna shopping centre at 315 Pszczyńska Street. It is designed for experiencing colour, light and sound rather than viewing traditional exhibits behin…
Katowice
The Szyb Wilson Gallery is at 1 Oswobodzenia Street in Katowice, on the edge of Janów, Nikiszowiec and Szopienice. It occupies historic buildings of the former “Wieczorek” mine shaft, whose history dates back to 1826. According to the venu…
gmina Niegowa
The Geopark of the Northern Jura is a developing geotourism area in the northern Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It covers seven municipalities: Mstów, Olsztyn, Przyrów, Janów, Poraj, Żarki and Niegowa. Limestone formed in a warm sea more than…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cieszyn
Castle Hill in Cieszyn is the historic heart of the town, rising above the Olza River by the Polish-Czech border. The former stronghold preserves the Romanesque Rotunda of St Nicholas and St Wenceslaus, the Gothic Piast Tower and a park wi…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
Żar Mountain in the Little Beskids rises to 761 metres above Międzybrodzie Żywieckie. Its crest holds the upper reservoir of the Porąbka-Żar pumped-storage plant, with views towards Lake Międzybrodzkie, Lake Żywieckie and the Beskids. A fu…
Bytom
The Upper Silesian Narrow-Gauge Railways run on a historic 785 mm track between Bytom, Tarnowskie Góry and Miasteczko Śląskie. The network began in the mid-19th century as industrial transport. Today, a heritage-train ride combines railway…
Częstochowa
The Towarne Hills north of Olsztyn near Częstochowa are a low, open group of limestone hills with outcrops and caves. Their highest point, Lisica, is about 349 metres above sea level. The rocks form part of the Eagles’ Nests Landscape Park…
gmina Niegowa
The ohel in Lelów commemorates Dawid Biderman, known as the Lelower (1746–1814), a rabbi and founder of the Lelov Hasidic dynasty. It stands on Ogrodowa Street near the market, at a site connected with the former Jewish cemetery. It is an…
Podzamcze
Grochowiec Wielki is a rocky hill rising to 486 metres above sea level, between Ryczów and Żelazko in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is about 2 km from Ryczów and roughly 5 km from Ogrodzieniec Castle. The limestone massif combines a vi…
Podzamcze
The stronghold on Birów Hill in Podzamcze is a timber reconstruction of an early-medieval fortified settlement, about 1.5 km from Ogrodzieniec Castle. Its ramparts, palisade and huts show what a stronghold from the age of Poland’s first Pi…
Żywiec
Grojec is a hill within Żywiec, in the Żywiec Valley, with three summits: Mały Grojec (about 422 m above sea level), Średni Grojec, also called Kopiec (about 475 m), and Duży Grojec (612 m). Its position above the town makes it a good walk…
Rzyki
Komoniecki Grotto, also called Komoniecki Cave, lies in the eastern Little Beskids in the headwaters of the Dusica stream. It is a natural rock shelter measuring about 115 m², up to 2 m high and about 15 m wide. The formation is protected…
gmina Niegowa
Bear Grotto in Złoty Potok lies in the Wiercica Valley, within the Parkowe nature reserve in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. It is a natural cave with a spacious chamber and darker, damp passages, not a lit show cave with guided tours. Trea…
Tarnowskie Góry
Gwarki is a multi-day festival in Tarnowskie Góry, organised since 1957 and rooted in the town’s mining history. In September, the Market Square, central streets and cultural venues fill with concerts, family activities, fairs and exhibiti…
Soblówka
In the **Lipowski Wierch and Romanka Group** of the Żywiec Beskids, on the sub-summit slopes between **Boraczy Wierch (1,244 m)** and **Lipowski Wierch (1,324 m)**, stretches **Hala Bieguńska** — a meadow at about **1,200 m**, one of the m…
Soblówka
Above **Żabnica and Węgierska Górka**, on the **pass below Redykalny Wierch (998 m)**, lies **Hala Boracza (860 m)** — a Beskid meadow with the **PTTK hut at 854 m**, one of the oldest in the Żywiec Beskids. It is a rare case of a hala you…
Szczyrk
Above Brenna, on a side ridge of Kotarz in the Silesian Beskids, spreads a wide clearing also known as Kotarska Polana. From its edge you can see the panorama of the surrounding ranges: **Skrzyczne**, the Stożek and Czantoria range and the…