Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
gmina Żary
The market square in Żary, the largest town of the Polish Lusatia, took shape already in the Middle Ages. Its heart is the town hall, whose brick core reaches back to the 14th century and kept growing until the 19th century. It is a square…
gmina Żary
The market square in Zielona Góra retains the medieval layout of the old town, set out as a 60 × 160 m rectangle from which six streets once radiated. Trade gave the square's sections their names: meat, flour, flax and grain. Today it is t…
Żywiec
The market square in Żywiec is the main square of a town in the Żywiec Basin, located a little west of the Habsburg castle. It is surrounded by townhouses dominated by the town hall, and after a recent revitalisation cars have disappeared…
Soblówka
Rysianka (1,322 m) is a peak in the Lipowski Wierch and Romanka group of the Żywiec Beskids. It rises above three valleys — the streams of Żabniczanka, Bystra and Sopotnia — and joins three ridges, which makes it one of the region's more i…
Tarnowskie Góry
Bearded miners with a lamp in hand have been appearing across Tarnowskie Góry since 2013. The gwarek statues were unveiled year after year, and by December 2024 **twelve** of them stood in public spaces, from the market square to distant d…
Zabrze
Several cat figures have taken up residence in the public spaces of Ruda Śląska. The first one arrived in September **2014** on Jan Paweł II square in Nowy Bytom, right by the city hall. Later ones went to Wirek, next to the library, and t…
Częstochowa
In the southern wing of the Jasna Góra monastery operates a chamber that once served as a royal throne room. The **Knights Hall**, built in **1647–1649**, was formerly called the Hall of Disputes and still plays a representative role — mon…
Świdnica
In the central part of Sikorski Park in Świdnica stands a red triplane — a replica of the **Fokker Dr.I**, the type flown by **Manfred von Richthofen**, the most famous fighter ace of the First World War, known as the Red Baron. The monume…
Wiślica
The most representative building of Busko-Zdrój dates from **1836** and bears the name of its creator. The **Marconi Sanatorium** was designed by **Henryk Marconi**, a Warsaw architect of Italian descent, author among others of the Europej…
Sandomierz
The Sandomierz region is known for its loess ravines and monuments, but it was orchards that turned it into a horticultural power. The **Sandomierz Apple Trail** links about **40 sites** spread along **200 kilometres** of routes in a dozen…
Sandomierz
Vineyards have returned to the Vistula after centuries, and the Sandomierz land has special rights to it: the first vines were planted here as early as the **13th century**. The **Sandomierz Wine Trail** is a **60-kilometre** route through…
Rzyki
Above the houses of Ślemień, on the wooded slopes of a hill with an optimistic name — **Jasna Górka** (Bright Little Mountain) — stands a church that pilgrims have visited for centuries. The sanctuary of Our Lady belongs to the parish of t…
Dębno
Above the market square of Limanowa rises the monumental Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows, the principal shrine of the Beskid Wyspowy mountains. The church is an example of the native current in architecture, rooted in tradition, culture an…
Chrzanów
The tall tower of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is visible from afar in the panorama of Trzebinia, a town in the Chrzanów county of Lesser Poland. Run by the Salvatorians, the church is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima, and…
gmina Niegowa
Among the forests of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, on the edge of Żarki, stands the Pauline monastery complex with the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Leśniów, Patroness of Families. The core of the complex is a church from **1610**, built in a…
Strzelno
Licheń Stary, a village in eastern Greater Poland in the Ślesin municipality, is the address of the largest church in Poland and one of the largest in the world. The Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, built as a votive offering of the Catholi…
Sucha Beskidzka
Above Maków Podhalański, a small town on the Skawa river in the Beskid Makowski mountains, rises the Church of the Transfiguration — the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Maków, Patroness of Families. In its present form the church was built betwee…
Pińczów
Pińczów divides into two centres: the Renaissance market square and the humbler **Mirów**, a former small town with its own church. The church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is today at once a parish church, home to the Franc…
Olkusz
The sanctuary in Płoki, a village north of Trzebinia, lies on the edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The fame of this place is tied to the cult of Our Lady called the Lady of Płock, shown in a miraculous image from the mid-**15th centu…
Podzamcze
On the road from Ogrodzieniec to Pilica, in Podzamcze about **2 km** from Ogrodzieniec Castle, stands the chapel of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rock. The cult began in **1818**, when a resident of Podzamcze saw an image of the Blessed…
Zawiercie
Skarżyce, a separate village until 1977 and today a district of Zawiercie, hide one of the more interesting monuments of the Jura: the church of the Most Holy Trinity with three round chapels symbolising God in three persons. Since **1999*…
gmina Pilica
North of the Pilica market square, in the Biskupice district, stands a monastic complex that has shaped the town's image for over **280 years**. The baroque, single-storey, quadrilateral Franciscan monastery with the church of the Most Hol…
Częstochowa
Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, the monastery of the Pauline Fathers on a hill of the same name, is the most important pilgrimage centre of Polish Catholics and one of the principal Marian shrines. In **1994** the complex was declared a Histori…
Zakopane
In Olcza, the eastern part of Zakopane through which the Olczyski Potok stream flows, stands the Sanctuary of Our Lady Revealing the Miraculous Medal. The church is entirely a work of our times: the cornerstone, taken from the Tatra Mounta…