Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Dobczyce
A few steps from the castle hill in Dobczyce, among old trees in the Old Town quarter, stand six wooden buildings of the Open-Air Museum of Wooden Folk Architecture. It is the ethnographic branch of the Regional PTTK Museum and a stop on t…
Kudowa-Zdrój
On a hill above Pstrążna, a northern district of Kudowa-Zdrój lying close to the border, spreads the Museum of Folk Culture of the Sudetic Foothills. Timber cottages and farm buildings moved here from nearby villages form an intimate open-…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In the Manor Park, an extension of the Pszczyna castle park, stand more than a dozen wooden buildings forming the Pszczyna Village Homestead. Created in **1975** on almost two hectares, the open-air museum gathers the most valuable timber…
gmina Warta
In the historic park of Russów, next to the manor house of Maria Dąbrowska, operates the Ethnographic Park run by the District Museum of the Kalisz Land. This small open-air museum gathers timber monuments of the Kalisz region: houses, a c…
Olsztyn
By the Sierpienica river, just before its confluence with the Skrwa, stretch **60 hectares** of the Museum of the Mazovian Countryside — one of the largest open-air museums in Poland. More than **80 buildings** of timber construction from…
Chęciny
At the foot of Chęciny lies Tokarnia — the Ethnographic Park of the Museum of the Kielce Countryside and one of the largest open-air museums of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Founded in **1976**, it arranges dozens of wooden 19th-century…
Uniejów
At ul. Arcybiskupa Jakuba Świnka, not far from the thermal baths and the castle in Uniejów, stands the Mill Homestead — an open-air museum founded in **2012** and devoted to the old milling craft. Two wooden post windmills, an inn in a 19t…
Łomnica
Skopiec, a **724-metre** peak of the Kaczawskie Mountains, is a classic of easy ascents in the Land of Extinct Volcanoes. Although the summit is forested, a short approach from Przełęcz Komarnicka and a place in the Crown of Polish Mountai…
Racibórz
Right next to the Racibórz collegiate church, at ul. Nowa, in a section of Plac Długosza, lies a square named after Rev. Prelate Stefan Pieczka — the long-standing parish priest of the temple and one of the most important figures of post-w…
Wrocław
The Sky Tower observation deck is located on the 49th floor, around 200 metres above Wrocław. Following its modernisation, it is no longer simply a glass-walled room with a view: visitors now have around 600 m² of space, a café and an outd…
Świeradów-Zdrój
Above Świeradów-Zdrój, on a forested slope in the Jizera Mountains, stands the **62-metre** Sky Walk tower — the tallest structure of its kind in Poland, opened in **June 2021**. Its summit is reached by an approx. 850-metre walkway that r…
Chudów
The Silesian Botanical Garden in Mikołów's Mokre district is a large garden complex run by the Silesian Botanical Garden Association of Associations, combining nature conservation with ecological education. Admission is free, as is parking…
Radzionków
The Silesian Botanical Garden in Radzionków is an unusual institution: a habitat garden whose main purpose is the active protection of plant species and rare plant communities threatened in the natural environment. Most of its area is give…
Katowice
The Silesian Freedom and Solidarity Centre in Katowice's Brynów district is a museum dedicated to the strike and pacification of the Wujek mine of **16 December 1981**, which followed the introduction of martial law. A ZOMO riot platoon at…
Sobótka
The granite dome rising to **718 m above sea level** over the Sudetic Foreland is visible from afar, including from the A4 motorway. Ślęża is the highest peak of its massif and of the entire Sudetic Foreland, known as the Silesian Olympus.…
Wiślica
In Busko-Zdrój, a sightseeing train called **Słoneczny Ekspres** runs along the promenade between the market square and the Spa Park. Colourful and battery-powered, these electric vehicles let you explore the resort town without effort — e…
Zakopane
At the foot of the Wielka Krokiew ski jump in Zakopane lies **Snowlandia**, a winter amusement park opened in the **2015/2016** season. Its centrepiece is a snow labyrinth rebuilt from scratch every year: made of artificial snow, it takes…
Sromowce Niżne
**Sokolica (747 m)** is one of the most recognisable mountains of the Pieniny: its summit rises as a rocky crag about **300 metres** above the Dunajec gorge, and on its ridge grows a pine that has become the emblem of the whole range. The…
Łomnica
In the north-western part of the Rudawy Janowickie mountains rises the **Góry Sokole** range — a group of granite summits and crags named after the peregrine falcons that once nested here. Its two best-known tops are **Sokolik (642 m)** wi…
Żywiec
In Cięcina, in the Żywiec Beskids, operates **Sopki Stopki** — a wooden settlement where old highlander cottages are being rescued, with sheep grazing beside them. The name joins two things: "sopki" are old, small cottages typical of the Ż…
Pińczów
On the slope below the forest in Wełecz near Busko-Zdrój grows a fairy-tale tree: the **Scots pine known as the Pine on Stilts**, which lifts itself above the ground on its own roots. The tree is about **100 years old**, and since **2002**…
Częstochowa
At the foot of the castle hill in Olsztyn, in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands a **wooden granary from 1783** — an example of old Polish folk architecture built of larch. The building originally stood in the village of Borowno, among…
Niedzica
In Niedzica-Zamek, above Lake Czorsztyn, operates **Spiska Kraina** — a family amusement park whose heart is made up of two miniature parks. The first, opened in **May 2015**, presents the most important monuments of Podhale, Spisz and Ora…
Sromowce Niżne
A wooden raft with two rafters in traditional costume carries you through the Dunajec Gorge — from the wharf in Sromowce Wyżne-Kąty to Szczawnica (**18 km**, about **2 h 15 min**) or on to Krościenko (**23 km**, about **2 h 45 min**). The…