Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Łódź
Łódź’s Walk of Fame, formally the Avenue of Stars of Łódź’s Road of Fame, is an open-air gallery of Polish cinema set into Piotrkowska Street. Its bronze stars honour film actors, directors, cinematographers and composers. The first star,…
Łódź
The White Factory in Łódź is one of the city's most important reminders of its industrial past. The neoclassical complex at 282 Piotrkowska Street is home to the Central Museum of Textiles, with the Łódź City Culture Park next door. It is…
Kudowa-Zdrój
Błędne Skały, or the Errant Rocks, are a rock labyrinth in Table Mountains National Park at about 853 m above sea level. A short, ticketed route winds between sandstone blocks, narrow cracks, passages and viewpoints. ## What the route is l…
Smolnik
The wooden Church of St Michael the Archangel in Smolnik is one of the best-preserved examples of Boyko sacred architecture in the Polish Bieszczady Mountains. Built in 1791, it was added in 2013 to the UNESCO transnational entry “Wooden T…
Kraków
Remuh Cemetery, also known as the Remu Cemetery, is a Jewish necropolis at 40 Szeroka Street in Kraków’s Kazimierz district. The first burials date from 1551, while the oldest surviving gravestone dates from 1552. Austrian authorities clos…
Kościelisko
## Kościeliska Valley — a Tatra walk Kościeliska Valley is a classic Tatra walk. The green trail starts at Kiry and follows the Kościeliski Stream through limestone rocks and clearings. The main goal is the PTTK mountain shelter on Hala Or…
Ścibórz
Otmuchów Lake is an artificial reservoir on the Nysa Kłodzka, between Otmuchów and Paczków. It combines flood storage, energy production, fishing and recreation, while its broad water surface and open shores create a distinctive landscape…
Legnica
**The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Legnica** is one of the most important historic buildings in the city centre. Its history reaches back to the early 13th century, while the present structure combines medieval origins with a Neo-…
Kraków
**Mogiła Cistercian Abbey** forms part of Kraków’s Nowa Huta district, but its history reaches back to 1222. The Cistercians came here from Lubiąż at the initiative of Bishop Iwo Odrowąż. The Gothic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin M…
Białystok
The modernist **St. Roch's Basilica** on the hill of the same name in Białystok was built as a **monument to the Regaining of Independence**. Construction began in **1927** to a design by **Oskar Sosnowski**, chosen in a repeated competiti…
gmina Łubowo
Lake Lednica in the Gniezno Lakeland is one of the most important places on the map of Poland's beginnings: on the largest of its five islands, **Ostrów Lednicki**, survive the remains of the oldest stone palace-and-church architecture in…
gmina Łubowo
Lednica Landscape Park combines nature with one of Poland’s most important stories about the beginnings of statehood. Around Lake Lednica, island, shore, fields and former crossings create the setting for the heritage of the first Piasts.…
Katowice
The Silesian Museum occupies the site of the former Katowice coal mine and makes its industrial past part of the visit. Some galleries are underground, while other exhibitions use restored mine buildings and the former industrial landscape…
Wrocław
Wrocław’s Japanese Garden was created for the 1913 World Exhibition and still works through composition: water, stone, plants, bridges and the rhythm of its paths. It is not a park for a long hike, but a place for a slow, attentive walk. #…
Sopot
An amphitheatre in the municipal forest of Sopot, opened in **July 1909**, still one of the largest open-air venues in Europe: **5,047 seated places, or 5,579 including the front sections**. The stage is 19 m deep with an area of 430 m², a…
Chorzów
Opened on **4 December 1955**, the Silesian Planetarium remains the largest planetarium in Poland: its **23-metre dome provides about 800 m² of screen**, and the auditorium seats 300. It stands on Góra Parkowa in Silesian Park in Chorzów,…
Poznań
A square with sides of **141 m**, laid out around 1253 — the third largest market square in Poland, after Kraków and Wrocław. At its centre stands the Renaissance town hall, and on its little tower **the billy goats emerge every day at 12:…
Piechowice
Two glacial cirques beneath the main ridge of the Karkonosze mountains, between **Wielki Szyszak** and **Łabski Szczyt**. **The Great Snowy Cirque (Wielki Śnieżny Kocioł) drops about 250 m, with walls up to 150 m high**; the neighbouring S…
Czajewszczyzna
The oldest landscape park in Poland — established on **12 January 1976**, covering **6,337 ha** of Suwałki moraine hills, 24 lakes and boulder fields. This is post-glacial relief in its purest form: moraines, kames and tunnel valleys laid…
Karłów
The highest summit of the Table Mountains (Góry Stołowe) — usually given as **919 m above sea level**, although measurements of the actual top (Fotel Pradziada) give 922 m — with viewing terraces spanning the whole Sudetes panorama. The su…
Giżycko
Boyen Fortress is a 19th-century Prussian fort built on the land between Lakes Niegocin and Kisajno. Its plan is the key to understanding it: six bastions form a star-shaped layout, while ramparts and walls lead through gates, courtyards a…
Gniew
A mighty Teutonic stronghold above the Vistula, built from **1290** over nearly forty years. It is one of the best-preserved castles of the Order in Poland — today it houses a hotel and a museum and stages some of Pomerania's best-known hi…
Chęciny
The ruins of a royal castle on a limestone hill (360 m above sea level), for years the calling card of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains. Raised at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, the stronghold has seen a royal treasury, a state priso…
Łęczyca
A brick stronghold raised by **Casimir the Great** shortly after **1345**, the Royal Castle in Leczyca is one of the most recognisable castles of central Poland. A residence of the Jagiellonians, the venue of four sejms and today home to t…