Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Lakes
Mstów
Tasarki is a small artificial reservoir fed by springs, tucked into the Warta valley on the edge of Mstów, a village a dozen or so kilometres from Częstochowa. With a sandy beach, a wooden jetty and pine woods around it, it is where locals…
Lakes
Kalety
In Zielona, a forest district of Kalety about 5 km from the town centre, the Mała Panew river spreads into two linked reservoirs. The older one has medieval roots: it formed where local smiths dug ore out of the riverbed. Today it means ba…
Castles
Wisła
The Presidential Castle in Wisła ("VEES-wah") is a modernist mountain residence built in 1929–1931 as a gift from the people of Silesia to Polish President Ignacy Mościcki. Its towers deliberately echo a medieval castle, while the interior…
Technical monuments
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
One of the minds behind this dam was Gabriel Narutowicz – a hydraulic engineer who had designed a dam on the Aare in Switzerland and later became the first President of interwar Poland. Since 1936 the concrete dam on the Soła river in Międ…
Technical monuments
Czernichów
The earth dam at Tresna closes the Soła valley between the Żywiec Basin and the Little Beskids and has held back Lake Żywiec since the mid-1960s. It rises 39 m above the valley floor and is over 300 m long, and building it meant flooding e…
Lakes
Świerklaniec
Kozłowa Góra Reservoir, also called Lake Świerklaniec, was built in the 1930s as… an anti-tank obstacle. In the event of war it was meant to flood the Brynica valley in front of the fortifications of the Silesia Fortified Area. Today it is…
Nature
gmina Pilica
The white walls of Zegarowe Skały (Clock Rocks) rise above the treetops on the left slope of the Wodąca Valley, between Smoleń, Złożeniec and Strzegowa. It is one of the most popular groups of climbing rocks in the Polish Jura, and also a…
Nature
Pszczyna
Two bison from the forests of Pszczyna, the cow Planta and the bull Plebejer, were among the twelve animals from which the whole species was rebuilt after the First World War. The best place to learn their story is Jankowice near Pszczyna,…
Landscape parks
Soblówka
On the summit of Pilsko (1,557 m) dwarf mountain pine grows, and some scientists see traces of ancient glaciers here. Around it lies Żywiec Landscape Park, which its managers describe as the oldest landscape park in the Polish Carpathians.…