Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Niedzica
Between the Spiš Pieniny and the main Pieniny range, the Gabriel Narutowicz Dam pools the Dunajec — an embankment **400 m** long and about **50 m** high that closes the Czorsztyn Lake. Ideas for damming the Dunajec date back to **1905**, b…
Łodygowice
On the Soła river, at the foot of the Little Beskids, an embankment with a clay core closes Lake Żywieckie. The Tresna Dam was built from local materials — thick-bedded sandstones and gravel — and completed in **1966**. Its crest is **300…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
The highest point of Góra Żar in the Little Beskids looks as if someone had scraped off its summit and replaced it with a sheet of water — and that is exactly how this mountain was made. On the top, at about **750 m above sea level**, lies…
Piekary Śląskie
Between Tarnowskie Góry and Piekary Śląskie the Brynica river unexpectedly spreads into a broad body of water whose shores link Świerklaniec, Kozłowa Góra and Wymysłów. The Kozłowa Góra Reservoir, also known as Lake Świerklanieckie, was no…
Wadowice
Between Wadowice and the hills of the Little Beskids, the Skawa river has been dammed by a gigantic concrete wall. The Świnna Poręba Reservoir, increasingly often called Lake Mucharskie, is one of the youngest large dam reservoirs in Polan…
Żywiec
It was not the Podhale region but Żywiecczyzna that was the cradle of Carpathian banditry — and this is precisely the thesis displayed by the Zbójnicki Szlak, also known as the Carpathian Outlaws Trail. It is a historical and cultural heri…
Sandomierz
Beneath a townhouse on the market square known as Konwikt Boboli, with the entrance from Bartolona Street, hides a place where old weapons do not sit behind glass. The Knightly Armoury in Sandomierz, run by the Banner of the Knighthood of…
gmina Pilica
Above the treetops of the Wodąca Valley rise the white walls of the Zegarowe Skały — one of the most distinctive groups of limestone rocks in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The rocks lie between Smoleń and Złożeniec in the Pilica commune,…
gmina Żary
At the southern edge of Żary, off Komuny Paryskiej Street, you enter a hilly complex where valleys, ravines, small lakes and bogs form a landscape rare within the limits of Polish towns. Zielony Las, lying in the Crown of the Żary Hills, s…
Wiślica
On the edge of Busko-Zdrój, off Stawowa Street right by the village of Łagiewniki, the Nida region reveals its geological peculiarity: hills of exposed gypsum, cut through by karst crevices known as “swallow tails”. This is Zimne Wody — a…
Zakopane
In winter the Wielka Krokiew in Zakopane serves ski jumpers; in summer its inrun turns into a course described as the biggest slide in the world. The pontoon ride — for that is what it is — takes place without a jump, on special tubing mat…
Łódź
In the Łódź Park na Zdrowiu, at Konstantynowska 8/10, runs a zoological garden that in 2022 underwent a transformation on a European scale. Zoo Łódź, founded in **1938** and comprehensively rebuilt in **2022**, is known today above all for…
Uniejów
Near Poddębice, in the western part of the Łódź region, about **500 animals** representing **90 species** from five continents live on **25 hectares**. Zoo Safari Borysew is known above all for its white lions and white Bengal tigers, whic…
Ojców
In the Prądnik Valley, just behind the Kraków Gate, a spring flows from the rock. At the bottom of its basin you can spot a small stone heart — hence the name, the Spring of Love. According to local legend, a couple who drink from it toget…
Goczałkowice-Zdrój
In Jankowice near Pszczyna, in the middle of the Pszczyna forests, the Bison Breeding and Forest Education Centre runs a demonstration enclosure open free of charge. On **10 hectares** — a pasture at the front and forest at the back — live…
Gdańsk
The Crane over the Motława is one of Gdańsk’s best-known landmarks. Combining a city gate with a port crane, it recalls the period when the city was an important centre of maritime trade. The present brick-and-timber building houses an exh…
Rzyki
In Ślemień, in the heart of the Żywiec region, the Żywiec Ethnographic Park was opened in **August 2012** — an open-air museum recreating the layout and buildings of a village of the Żywiec Beskids. On more than **6 hectares** by the road…
Soblówka
The Żywiec Landscape Park, established on **13 March 1986**, is the oldest large-scale nature protection area in the Silesian Voivodeship. It covers **35,870 hectares** of the highest parts of the Żywiec Beskids along the Slovak border, fr…