Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Rydzyna
On a hill in Głogówko, a settlement located 1.5 km east of Gostyń in the Gostyń county, stands the baroque monastery complex of the Filippini with the basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Philip Neri. The church,…
Szydłów
In Pacanów, a town in the Ponidzie region known for Koziołek Matołek, stands the church of St Martin — the Sanctuary of the Dying Christ, raised in **2008** by Benedict XVI to the dignity of a minor basilica. The parish history reaches bac…
gmina Niegowa
In Aleksandrówka, a village in the commune of Przyrów in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the baroque church of Saint Anne modelled on the basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua. The temple with a high tower holds two chapels, of Saint Fr…
Kłodzko
Above the Nysa Kłodzka river, at the foot of the Bardzkie Mountains, rises the Cistercian basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary — the heart of the metropolitan sanctuary of Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith. The baroque churc…
Czerna
In the Eliaszówka Valley, near Krzeszowice in the Lesser Poland commune of Krzeszowice, hides a baroque hermitage — the monastic retreat of the Discalced Carmelites. The foundation of **1629** we owe to Agnieszka Firlej née Tęczyńska, buri…
Przeworsk
In Jodłówka, a village in the commune of Pruchnik in the Jarosław county, on St Mary's Hill, amid fields and stately trees, stands the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Consolation. The village lies 4 km from Pruchnik, on the western outskirts of t…
Siewierz
In Koziegłówki, a village in the commune of Koziegłowy in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the church of Saint Anthony of Padua — a sanctuary distinguished by architecture rarely seen in the Jura. The church was built in the years **1…
Piekary Śląskie
On the edge of Dobieszowice, just beyond the bed of the Brynica, you can spot a low concrete block crowned with an armoured dome that has been blending into the local fields for decades. This is heavy combat bunker No. 52 „Wesoła”, a link…
Szczyrk
## The hut and Fairy Tale Garden At the foot of Grabowa in Brenna stands the wooden cottage Chata Grabowa. The building has been restored and operates as a private mountain hut and a resting point on the trail. Its main advantage is the ri…
Ruda Sułowska
The cycle path along the former narrow-gauge railway is a **20.3-kilometre**, 2-metre-wide asphalt trail in the Barycz Valley, running from Sułów Milicki through Pracze and Milicz to Grabownica by the Milicz Ponds. It was laid on the emban…
Łódź
On the square of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity at Ogrodowa Street in Łódź, between Manufaktura and the Izrael Poznański Palace, a 3.5-metre WOŚP Heart has stood since **July 2022**. The polished steel sculpture works like a gian…
gmina Warta
At the foot of the Castle Hill in Sieradz, between the Żeglina stream and the Paradzianka reservoir, lies an open-air museum devoted to the Sieradz countryside. The Sieradz Ethnographic Park at Grodzka 1 is a branch of the District Museum…
Smerek
South of Lake Solina, near the village of Zawój in the Bieszczady Mountains, the Wetlina river cuts into the rocks and forces its way through successive rock steps. This section of the valley is protected by the **Sine Wiry** nature reserv…
Częstochowa
Above the Warta riverbed in Mstów, beneath Góra Szwajcera, a lonely limestone tor rises, visible from afar. **Skała Miłości** — Lovers' Rock, as the locals named it — is considered the northernmost outcrop of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland…
Podzamcze
A lone limestone block rising from fields on the eastern edge of Bzów, a district of Zawiercie, is one of the most recognisable summits of the central Jura. Rzędowa Rock is a residual hillock of Rzędowa Hill and stands at **454 m above sea…
gmina Niegowa
Between the ruins of two Jura strongholds — Mirów Castle and Bobolice Castle — stretches a band of white rock outcrops known as the Mirowska Ridge. The Mirów Rocks, with their pinnacles, ravines and steep walls, resemble a miniature Tatra…
Szczytna
In the central part of the Table Mountains, near Karłów, single rock tors with mushroom-like caps rise above the treetops. **Skalne Grzyby** (Rock Mushrooms) is one of the most distinctive clusters of outcrops in the Central Sudetes — indi…
Podzamcze
Right below the walls of Ogrodzieniec Castle, on the summit of Góra Janowskiego (**516 m above sea level**, the highest elevation of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland), stretches a rock labyrinth called the Rock City. It is a compact group of…
Zawiercie
White rock outcrops rising from forests and fields are the most characteristic feature of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Their material settled on the floor of a shallow, warm sea during the Jurassic period, between **201 and 145 million y…
gmina Kroczyce
Above the linear village of Rzędkowice in the Włodowice commune towers a limestone wall of outcrops more than a kilometre long, visible from afar thanks to the open, field-dominated surroundings. Since **2009** the Rzędkowice Rocks have be…
Łęknica
In Buczyny, a small village of the Trzebiel commune on the old salt route between Żary and Łęknica, operates a centre preserving the memory of the Lusatians, a Slavic people inhabiting Upper and Lower Lusatia. The Lusatian Open-Air Museum…
gmina Łubowo
Halfway between Poznań and Gniezno, alongside national road no. 5, stands the oldest miniature park in Poland. The Miniature Open-Air Museum of the Piast Trail was opened in May **1998**, in the year of the **950th anniversary of Pobiedzis…
Przeworsk
By the Mleczka river, opposite the Lubomirski palace with its museum, stretches a complex of wooden houses that combines museum-grade heritage protection with everyday life — a restaurant, an inn and a campsite. Pastewnik in Przeworsk is s…
Białowieża
On the edge of the Białowieża Forest, in the village of Budy in the Białowieża commune, stands a 19th-century farmstead recreating the everyday life of the inhabitants of the forest's Podlaskan foreland. Anyone who understands the eastern…