Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Caves
Kletno
Bear Cave in Kletno (Polish: Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia, roughly "yahs-KEE-nyah nyed-ZHVYEH-dzyah") is the longest cave in the Sudetes and one of the most beautiful show caves in Poland. Hidden in the Śnieżnik Massif near the Czech border, it i…
Caves
Wierzchowie
Wierzchowska Górna Cave (say "vyeh-HOV-skah GOOR-nah") in the village of Wierzchowie is Poland's longest show cave, about 15 km (9 miles) northwest of Kraków in the Kraków Valleys Landscape Park. A lit, guided route of about 700 m (2,300 f…
Amusement parks
Bałtów
Before concrete tyrannosaurs arrived in Bałtów, there was a legend about the devil. A mark in the rock above the Kamienna valley, known as the Devil's Footprint (Czarcia Stopka), was said to have been left by the devil leaping across the r…
Museums
Ozimek
JuraPark Krasiejów near Opole is a dinosaur park built around a genuine palaeontological site. Excavations here have yielded thousands of remains of Late Triassic amphibians and reptiles, some 230 million years old, including Silesaurus op…
Other
Radzionków
The seasonal MOSiR outdoor pool complex in Radzionków lies in Księża Góra park, on a hill 357 m above sea level. It has three pools: a 50-metre sports pool, a shallower pool for non-swimmers and a paddling pool with three slides. It is a g…
Technical monuments
Ustroń
The Czantoria Chairlift in Ustroń (pronounced roughly "chan-TOR-yah" and "OOS-tron") is a year-round chairlift that carries you in 8–10 minutes up to the Stokłosica meadow (851 m / 2,792 ft) on the slopes of Wielka Czantoria in the Silesia…
Viewpoints
Solina
The Solina Gondola Lift is a modern cable car above Lake Solina in southeastern Poland, carrying visitors from Plasza station beside Solina Dam up to Jawor hill. From the cabins you look down on the dam, the lake's winding bays and the gre…
Technical monuments
Bielsko-Biała
Yellow glass-sided gondolas gliding over the forest from the Olszówka district have been a familiar sight in Bielsko-Biała for generations. The Szyndzielnia cable car opened on 21 December 1953 as Poland's first gondola lift and the first…
Technical monuments
Rogów
The heritage train from Rogów never goes faster than 40 km/h, and many of its wagons still carry the names of the sugar factories they came from. The Rogów – Rawa – Biała narrow-gauge railway is the only heritage narrow-gauge line in Łódź…
Technical monuments
Poznań
For many Poznań residents, the narrow-gauge train along Lake Malta is a first childhood memory – and its story is older than the lake's leisure park itself. Maltanka started in 1956 as a children's railway in the Dębina district and moved…
Museums
Gliwice
Kolejkowo Gliwice (roughly "ko-lay-KO-vo") is a huge model railway and miniature world inside the Europa Centralna shopping mall in Gliwice, in Poland's Upper Silesia region. Trains wind past tiny versions of real Silesian landmarks, thous…
Other
Wrocław
Kolejkowo in Wrocław (roughly koh-ley-KOH-voh, from the Polish word for model railway) is one of Poland's largest model railway layouts: a miniature Wrocław and Lower Silesia built at 1:25 scale, with moving trains, cars and thousands of t…
Museums
Kołobrzeg
The Kołobrzeg Maritime Open-Air Museum (Kołobrzeski Skansen Morski) is an outdoor branch of the Museum of Polish Arms in the town's fishing port. Its stars are two Polish Navy warships standing on dry land that you can climb aboard, along…
Other
Ruda Sułowska
The Colourful Carp Trail winds through the Barycz Valley, on the border of Lower Silesia and Greater Poland – a region famous for its 800-year tradition of carp farming. The route is marked by 30 three-dimensional carp figures painted by a…
Technical monuments
Kowary
The Podgórze Uranium Mine (pod-GOO-zheh) in Kowary is a former uranium mine in Poland's Giant Mountains where ore really was extracted in the 1950s — and where you now explore the tunnels by the light of miners' lamps. Highlights include a…
Technical monuments
gmina Stronie Śląskie
The Kletno Uranium Mine (say "KLET-no") is an underground tourist route in a former adit on the slopes of the Śnieżnik Massif in the Sudetes, southwest Poland. Between 1948 and 1953, under Soviet supervision, uranium ore was mined here for…
Technical monuments
Złotoryja
Złotoryja takes its name from gold, panned here as early as the Middle Ages, and its 13th-century Latin name was Mons Aurum, Gold Hill. The Aurelia mine lets you go underground on the slope of St Nicholas Hill and see what the local hunt f…
Churches & monasteries
Boronów
On the grille of a side chapel hangs a crucifix that, people in Boronów say, is slowly closing its eyes – and will shut them completely on the day the world ends. The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Holy Rosary in Boronów is a wooden churc…
Churches & monasteries
Olesno
The pine trunk behind glass by the high altar bears a plaque dated "July 1444": under this tree, legend says, a girl was saved from robbers through the intercession of St Anne. A wooden church grew up around the pine, and in the 17th centu…
Churches & monasteries
Pietrowice Wielkie
On the edge of Pietrowice Wielkie, on the road to Gródczanki, a small wooden church of the Holy Cross sits at the bottom of a ravine. It has drawn pilgrims for more than three centuries, and right beside it a spring rises in a Gothic Reviv…
Churches & monasteries
Pawłowiczki
In the fields outside Gościęcin, next to a spring long believed to cure eye ailments, stands the wooden pilgrimage church of St Brice, built in 1661. Locals simply call the area with the church, the former hermitage and the chapels Bryksy.…
Churches & monasteries
Prostki
In 1656, Tatar troops returning with their plunder from the battle of Prostki burned Ostrykół to the ground, together with its church and library, and carried off 1,326 people from the parish into captivity. The village was rebuilt, and a…
Churches & monasteries
Wilamowice
On a cemetery hill in Stara Wieś near Wilamowice stands a wooden church whose construction date, 1522, has been confirmed by tree-ring dating. Shingled roofs, covered walkways around the walls and late Gothic portals with "donkey-back" arc…
Churches & monasteries
Wadowice
The parish of Barwałd is one of the oldest in the Archdiocese of Kraków – first recorded in 1326, it celebrates its 700th anniversary in 2026. Its wooden Church of St Erasmus, consecrated in 1782, has an unusual layout: the tower stands on…