Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
gmina Niegowa
In the Parkowe reserve in Złoty Potok, among old trees of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, spreads the Green Pond. Its literary name, Sen Nocy Letniej (A Midsummer Night's Dream), was given by the poet Zygmunt Krasiński, who stayed in these…
Tarnowskie Góry
North of Połomia, a farming village in the commune of Tworóg, stretch two groups of ponds: the better-kept Szkarotkowe Ponds and the wilder, partly dried-up Wesoła Ponds to the west. No asphalt road leads to them — the car is left by the b…
Istebna
At **760 m above sea level**, on a broad meadow sloping towards the Olza valley, lies Stecówka — a part of Istebna in the Silesian Beskids, named after the surname Stec, presumably the first settler on this land. Documents in the Cieszyn a…
Częstochowa
On the Warta river, at the northern edge of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Mstów reminds visitors that between **1279 and 1870** it held town status. Just south of the centre, on the Ściegna hill (**281 m a.s.l.**), stand the ruins of hist…
gmina Niegowa
In the middle of Żarki, a town in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland with town rights from before **1382**, behind the parish church and the marketplace stands a complex of historic barns. The old townscape was so tight that farmers could not b…
Wisła
Stożek Wielki (978 m) is a summit in the Czantoria Range, built of Godula sandstone with a regular, conical shape that gave it its name and makes it appear higher than it is. The western, northern and eastern slopes fall steeply, while to…
Bydlin
Near Ryczów, not far from Ogrodzieniec Castle, limestone outcrops known as the Straszykowe Rocks, sometimes called scarecrow rocks, gather on the top of Straszykowa Hill. The hill, reaching almost **500 m above sea level**, is among the hi…
gmina Niegowa
On the top of Zamkowa rock, north of the buildings of Łutowiec in the commune of Niegowa, faint remains of a medieval watchtower have survived. Of the masonry stronghold a section of wall **0.6 metres** thick and **4.5 metres** long remain…
gmina Niegowa
Between the castles of Bobolice and Olsztyn, on the top of a solitary rock around **400 m above sea level**, a defensive watchtower was erected in **1370–1391**, whose remains lie near the village of Suliszowice in the commune of Żarki. Th…
Katowice
Between Spodek and the centre of Katowice, on the site of the former Katowice coal mine, a district has grown that changed the image of the city: the Culture Zone. At its central point rises the tower of the Warszawa II mine shaft, around…
Szczyrzyc
Between Łysina and Kamiennik Południowy, on the boundary of the Beskid Wyspowy and Beskid Makowski ranges, lies the broad saddle of Przełęcz Sucha (**710 m above sea level**). Sucha Polana has long served shepherds and hikers, and today it…
Zakopane
Three dark rock towers rise from the main ridge of the Western Tatras between Kasprowy Wierch and Kondracka Kopa — the Suche Czuby, properly called Suche Czuby Kondrackie. The Polish–Slovak border runs across them, and so does one of the m…
Sochaczew
In Wręcza near Mszczonów, some **50 km from Warsaw**, operates one of the largest indoor water parks in Europe. Suntago, opened in **February 2020** as the first part of the Park of Poland complex, cost **150 million euro** and created **6…
Puławy
Above the Vistula backwater, in the English park surrounding the Czartoryski palace in Puławy, stands a rotunda modelled on the ancient Temple of Vesta in Tivoli near Rome. The Temple of the Sibyl was built between **1798 and 1801** to a d…
gmina Niegowa
In August, the quiet Lelów, a former royal town in the Częstochowa county, turns for three days into a capital of two dishes baked all night long. The Festival of Ciulim and Czulent is a festival of Polish and Jewish culture, recalling the…
Nowy Sącz
In the heart of the former Jewish quarter of Nowy Sącz, not far from the royal castle, stands the brick synagogue known as Grodzka. Built in **1746**, it ranks among the more valuable baroque synagogues in Małopolska and today combines the…
Warszawa
In the middle of the Old Town Market Square, in a round basin on a granite pedestal, stands the Mermaid with a sword raised to strike and a shield in her left hand — the symbol of Warsaw that has appeared in the city's coat of arms for ove…
Czorsztyn
More than **1,500 kilometres** of routes linking **252 wooden landmarks** — churches, tserkvas, manor houses, inns and open-air museums — the Wooden Architecture Trail in Małopolska is the region's largest cultural tourism route. As many a…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
**1,060 kilometres** of routes and **93 historic wooden landmarks** make up the Silesian section of the Wooden Architecture Trail, created through the cooperation of the Silesia, Małopolska and Subcarpathian voivodeships. Churches, chapels…
Łódź
Following the traces of Łódź animation — the city produced **more than 1,400 animated films**, many of them at the Se-ma-for studio — runs a family trail of bronze figures known from the screen. Teddy Floppy-Ear (Miś Uszatek), the cats Fil…
Chęciny
When the Cistercians arrived on Polish lands in the **12th century**, their monasteries became centres of culture, economy and contact with Western Europe. The Cistercian Trail, established in September **1990** at the abbey in Mogiła near…
Białowieża
Just north-west of Białowieża, between Pogorzelce and Teremiski, a wooden boardwalk leads through the Stara Białowieża wilderness — the place where the first settlement named Białowieża stood centuries ago. This is the **Trail of the Royal…
Sułoszowa
The yellow trail, **85.3 km** long, links the karst valleys of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland near Kraków into one continuous route: from Pieskowa Skała Castle it heads south-west all the way to the railway station in Chrzanów. Along the wa…
Kraków
A driving trail of about **533 km** links **38 manors and palaces** in **35 towns and villages** of Lesser Poland — from Olkusz in the north to Paszkówka near Wadowice. Its creators want to preserve the memory of a type of residence that o…