Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Wisła
In Wisła Czarne, on the right side of the road leading towards Lake Czerniańskie, the Biała Wisełka stream falls over a tall ledge: this is an **8-metre waterfall**, one of the best-known objects of its kind in the Silesian Beskids. It was…
Wrocław
The smallest inhabitants of Wrocław have their own trail, a mobile app and a crowd of fans: dwarf figurines have been appearing in the city since **2001** and today there are nearly **1000** of them. They stand on streets and pavements, cl…
Chabówka
Each winter a dozen or so ski lifts operate on the slopes of the Gorce Mountains, forming a compact complex of family runs around Rabka-Zdrój, Rdzawka and Nowy Targ, all within a quarter of an hour's drive from one another. The main point…
Zawoja
Korbielów in the Jeleśnia commune is the winter capital of Pilsko — a peak rising to **1557 m**, whose main summit lies on the Slovak side, in the Żywiec-Orawa Beskids. Apart from Kasprowy Wierch, this is the highest alpine ski area in Pol…
Szklarska Poręba
Skiing in Szklarska Poręba centres on the complex below Szrenica — a summit in the western part of the Karkonosze Mountains, right by the Czech border, with views over the Jelenia Góra Basin and the Izera Mountains. In winter **7 lifts** o…
Tarnowskie Góry
In Żyglin — part of the town of Miasteczko Śląskie in the Tarnowskie Góry county — an unusual natural feature hides on Przygodna street with no sign or fence: a sand dune. At the beginning of the 20th century it was still massive, but over…
Opole
The Stobrawa Landscape Park, established on **28 September 1999** over an area of **52,636.5 ha** in the northern part of the Opole Voivodeship, is the region's youngest landscape park — and a refuge for inland dunes with relative heights…
gmina Stronie Śląskie
At Sportowa 2b street in Stronie Śląskie operates Bikeski, one of the better-stocked bike rental points in the Kłodzko Valley. The warehouse holds more than **50 bicycles** — classic and electric, hardtails and full-suspension machines, su…
Smołdzino
Beyond the dunes by Lake Łebsko, in the forest of the Słowiński National Park, stands a concrete relic of pre-war technology: the rocket launch site in Rąbka near Łeba. On this ground the Germans ran a secret experimental proving ground wh…
Roztoka Ryterska
Wysoka, officially recorded as Wysokie Skałki, rises to **1050 m** in the ridge of the Małe Pieniny and is the highest summit of the entire Pieniny Mountains and of the Pieniny Klippen Belt. The Polish-Slovak border runs across its top: th…
Gdańsk
Sobieszewska Island is the largest and most easterly district of Gdańsk — about **15 km** of land in the Vistula mouth, stretching from the Śmiała Vistula to the Vistula Cut. It is the third-largest island in Poland, and at the same time a…
gmina Niegowa
Beneath the sanctuary of Our Lady of Leśniów, Patroness of Families, in Żarki-Leśniów, in a historic cellar with arched vaults from the early **20th century**, a fossil and mineral exhibition is on display. The collection numbers about **1…
Ostróda
A walk through the Dylew Hills is the most mountainous landscape you will find in Warmia and Masuria: moraine hills cut by ravines, beech forests and Dylewska Góra at **312 m above sea level** — the highest elevation of north-eastern Polan…
Międzyzdroje
On the edge of Lubin, one of the oldest villages on the island of Wolin, rises Zielonka Hill — an **81-metre-high** viewpoint of Wolin National Park overlooking the wetlands of the back delta of the Świna river. It is a place for traveller…
Bytom
Żabie Doły is a legally protected landscape complex of **226.2 hectares** on the border of Bytom, Chorzów and Piekary Śląskie. The former tailings ponds of the Orzeł Biały mining and smelting works have become one of the most important hav…
Rudy
At 1 Szkolna Street in Rudy, a few minutes from the Cistercian abbey, awaits one of the more interesting monuments of engineering in Upper Silesia: the former narrow-gauge railway station, which still works like a living open-air museum —…
Wisła
On the edge of the spa Park Kopczyński in the centre of Wisła, right by the Moon Boulevard laid out over the river, stands an open-air gallery: **10 miniatures** of the most important buildings from towns on the Vistula, made of coloured g…
Tum
A dozen or so minutes on foot from the Romanesque collegiate church in Tum, in Kwiatkówek near Łęczyca, stands a farmstead recreating the rural world of the Łęczyca land at the turn of the **19th and 20th centuries**. The open-air museum,…
Zwierzyniec
Over the Wieprz valley, on the edge of the Roztocze region, operates a homestead that has become a symbol of Roztocze museology: Zagroda Guciów — “the museum of what was eaten 100 years ago in the Zamość countryside”. The complex of histor…
Klimkówka
In the village of Łosie near Gorlice, which lived off the maziar trade for centuries, operates the Maziarska Homestead — a Lemko open-air museum and a branch of the Dwory Karwacjanów i Gładyszów Museum in Gorlice. Three wooden buildings fr…
Częstochowa
Just below Jasna Góra, in the Park im. Staszica in Częstochowa, stands a single-storey brick cottage that looks as if it had been moved here from the countryside. In fact it is the Peasant Homestead — a site of the Częstochowa Museum, buil…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
A few hundred metres from the Pszczyna market square and castle, on the Wild Promenade of the Pszczyna Historic Park, operates the Bison Show Farm — a place where the history of saving Europe’s largest land mammal can be observed from a fe…
Szklarska Poręba
On the Sudeten Road leading from Szklarska Poręba to Świeradów-Zdrój, the highway at an altitude of **775 m** describes a bend of almost **180 degrees**. The name Death Bend comes from the numerous car accidents, but today it is above all…
Stara Wieś
Below the walls of Byczyna, on the small Pratwa river, spreads the Biskupice-Brzózki retention reservoir — a **42-hectare** body of water with wooden piers, a walkway over the water and a reconstructed early-medieval stronghold on the shor…