Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
452 places
Tarnowskie Góry
The orange-red hillock between the Segiet reserve and the Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry is a tailings heap — a dump of barren rock left after washing lead, silver and zinc ores at the Royal Fryderyk Mine. Heaping began in the **early 19th…
Piekary Śląskie
In autumn, usually on a Saturday in October, the historic park in Świerklaniec becomes an arena for riders, hunters and foresters. The programme usually starts around noon and lasts several hours; check the municipality notice for current…
Tarnowskie Góry
INDUSTRIADA is the celebration of the Silesian Voivodeship’s Industrial Monuments Route — an event that opens dozens of industrial sites at the same time and turns them into a distributed festival. In **2026**, its 17th edition took place…
Siewierz
Just behind the market square of Siewierz, next to the parish church, stands a single-storey manor house with a mansard shingle roof and dormers — the Old Municipality Building. This late-classicist, two-tract residence with a central hall…
Katowice
The December fair on **Plac Wyzwolenia** in Katowice's Nikiszowiec district combines Christmas stalls with the atmosphere of a listed workers' housing estate. In 2024 the fair was held for the **17th time**, which means the tradition goes…
Katowice
The Katowice Christmas market stretches along **the Market Square, between the Skarbek building and the Silesian Theatre**, and runs from the second half of November until early January — in the 2025/2026 season from **21 November to 6 Jan…
gmina Niegowa
Żarki in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland keep up a fair tradition going back to the times of **King Sigismund Augustus**, who granted the town the right to hold **three fairs a year**, each lasting at least a week. For centuries the markets…
gmina Kroczyce
Głęboka Cave in the Góra Zborów rock near Podlesice is the most popular underground tourist route in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. **The route is 190 metres long** and descends about **20 metres into the rock**, through chambers filled wi…
gmina Niegowa
Beneath the limestone hill of **Ostrężnik in the village of Siedlec** near Złoty Potok lies a horizontal cave, **90 metres long** — a system of passages and small chambers that once served as the **dungeons and cellars of Ostrężnik castle*…
Bystra
Trzy Kopce Cave, also known as Klimczok Grotto, lies on the southern slope of Trzy Kopce in the Silesian Beskids, within the Brenna municipality. It is a natural monument and one of the longer underground systems in Poland’s flysch Carpath…
Częstochowa
Zielona Góra Cave lies on the Zielona Góra hill near Kusięta and Olsztyn, within the Zielona Góra nature reserve. The Polish Geological Institute describes it as a valuable karst feature of the Częstochowa Upland, with calcite columns, sta…
Rzyki
The caves of the Little Beskids form part of the mountain landscape of the Little Beskids Landscape Park. The best-known is Komoniecki Grotto on the western slopes of Pośredni Groń. The area also contains the Czarne Działy caves and Wietrz…
Częstochowa
Just northwest of Olsztyn near Częstochowa, in the village of Kusięta between the Zielona Góra reserve and the Towarne Hills, lies **Lake Krasowe** — one of Poland's rarest natural phenomena. The pond formed in a **karst sinkhole**, a coll…
Tarnowskie Góry
The Nakło-Chechło Reservoir, usually called Chechło, is a popular leisure destination in the Świerklaniec municipality near Tarnowskie Góry. It was created on the site of a former sand pit: extraction ended in 1968 and the recreation centr…
Rzeczyce
The Pławniowice Reservoir lies between Pławniowice and Niewiesze in the Rudziniec municipality, near Gliwice and the A4 motorway. This artificial lake occupies a former sand-extraction site and now combines beaches, swimming, sailing, kaya…
Będzin
Pogoria is a group of artificial reservoirs in Dąbrowa Górnicza, created in former sand pits that supplied backfill for coal mines. Pogoria III has the strongest recreational character: its beach, water sports, walking routes and cycling a…
Siewierz
The Przeczycki Reservoir, also known as Przeczyce or the Przeczycko-Siewierski Reservoir, was created in 1963 by damming the Czarna Przemsza. It lies in the Siewierz and Mierzęcice municipalities, near Przeczyce and Sarnów. The reservoir s…
Podzamcze
The Eagle Nests Cycling Trail is a red-marked bike route of **190 km** running through the entire Kraków-Częstochowa Upland — from Częstochowa, in front of the Jasna Góra monastery, all the way to Kraków. ## A route of castle chains The tr…
Podzamcze
Juromania is the Festival of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, combining history, nature, outdoor activity and local culture. Events take place in many towns and villages, including castles, caves and other attractions of the Upland. The 2026…
Piekary Śląskie
On **Cerekwica hill** in Piekary Śląskie, right next to the basilica of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Justice and Social Love, spreads the **Piekary Calvary** — a complex of calvary chapels which is an important place of prayer and pilgrima…
Tarnowskie Góry
On **Srebrna Góra hill (347 m)**, on the border of Tarnowskie Góry and Bytom, lies **Blachówka** — a former dolomite quarry famous as the **"Silesian canyon"**: red, cracked earth and rock walls form a landscape unlike anything else in the…
Podzamcze
The disused Jurassic limestone quarry at Bzów near Zawiercie has white rock walls, ammonite traces and a location close to Rzędowa Rock and Ogrodzieniec Castle. ## Limestone and ammonite traces The quarry is a remnant of the former Wiek Ce…
Częstochowa
The quarry and trail are outdoor areas; check local signs and the current condition of the approach before travelling. ## A 5.3 km geology trail The quarry is the **sixth stop of a 5.3-kilometre geology trail**, opened to visitors in **200…
Piekary Śląskie
In the eastern part of the village of Rogoźnik, in the municipality of Bobrowniki, a disused quarry lies in a small basin between the Buczyna and Sadowie hills. Limestone and marl from the **Triassic** period was extracted here — rocks wit…