Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
344 places
Jerzmanowice
Mamutowa Cave in the **Kluczwody Valley near Wierzchowie** owes its name to a **mammoth tusk** found inside. Its huge arch-shaped opening can be seen from the steep south-western slopes of the Berdo hill in the Olkusz Upland. ## What you w…
Jerzmanowice
Wierzchowska Górna Cave is located in Wierzchowie, in the upper Kluczwoda Valley, outside Ojców National Park. It is a natural monument and one of the most interesting visitor caves in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The cave has about 1,00…
Rabsztyn
The caves of the Klucze municipality lie in the Lesser Poland part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, among limestone hills, forests and the Błędów Desert. The municipality lists Błotna, Lodowa, Pod Porzeczką and Na Świniuszce among its kar…
Wytrzyszczka
Lake Rożnowskie, also known as the Rożnów Reservoir, is a dammed lake on the Dunajec river in Lesser Poland, completed in **1941**. Stretching for over a dozen kilometres through the Rożnów Foothills, it is one of the most popular sailing…
Kraków
At **Mariacki Square 3**, between the Main Market Square and St Mary's Basilica, stands the **Hipolit House** — a burgher townhouse from the **16th century**, rebuilt in the first half of the **17th century** and once owned by the Hipolit…
Międzybrodzie Bialskie
**St John of Kęty Chapel in Kęty** is a Baroque church and sanctuary connected with the cult of the town’s patron. It stands at 4 Adama Mickiewicza Street, next to the parish church of St Margaret and Catherine. Tradition places it on the…
Nowy Sącz
**St Kinga’s Wayside Shrine in Stary Sącz** is a small late-Baroque shrine on Bandurskiego Street, beside a spring and the St Kinga Trail. The masonry structure was built in **1779** on the site of an earlier wooden shrine. Its importance…
Zawoja
**St John the Baptist Chapel in Zawoja Policzne**, known as the Robbers’ Chapel, stands by the road towards Krowiarki Pass. It is a small masonry shrine from the late 18th century, surrounded by old lime trees regarded as nature monuments.…
Czchów
**The Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Tarnów** stands beside the market square and is the most important monument in the city’s old town. The 14th-century Gothic church is best known for its Renaissance tom…
Olkusz
**The Jewish cemetery in Krzykawka** lies on the edge of the Bolesław municipality, near Sławków and the E94 road. It was formally established at the beginning of the 20th century by the Jewish communities of Sławków and Strzemieszyce. It…
Czchów
**The Jewish Cemetery in Tarnów** is a protected cemetery on Szpitalna Street and one of the city’s most important records of centuries of Jewish life. Around 3,000 tombstones survive on an area of about 3.2 hectares; the oldest matzeva da…
Nowy Sącz
**The Poor Clares Monastery in Stary Sącz** is one of the town’s most important monuments and a key heritage site of the Sącz region. St Kinga, a duchess who later became a nun, founded it in 1280. The complex stands on a slope above the P…
Kraków
**Kraków’s mounds** form a distinctive open-air route through the city’s history. Five different sites — Krakus, Wanda, Kościuszko, Piłsudski and John Paul II Mounds — combine legends, historical memory and views over Kraków. ## Five diffe…
Brzegi
**The Crown of Polish Mountains** is a hiking challenge covering the highest summit in each of Poland’s 28 mountain ranges. Created in 1997, the list runs from Łysica in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains to Rysy in the Tatras. It is not one tra…
Stary Wiśnicz
**Koryznówka Manor in Nowy Wiśnicz** is a wooden Serafiński family house visited by Jan Matejko. Built in the mid-19th century, it stands between the Kmitas and Lubomirskis Castle and the former monastery, making it an important heritage s…
Nowy Sącz
**The Church of the Holy Spirit in Nowy Sącz** is a former Norbertine church now run by the Jesuits. Its oldest sections are Gothic, while later rebuilding added Baroque elements, a 17th-century nave and a tower from 1755. The church stand…
Dobczyce
**The Church of Our Lady Help of Christians in Dobczyce** is a young Neo-Romanesque church built in 1947–1949 beside the market square. Its main curiosity is the combination of a post-war body with valuable works preserved from Dobczyce’s…
Zakopane
**The Church of St John the Apostle and Evangelist on Harenda** is a wooden church built in 1710–1720 in Zakrzów and moved to Zakopane in 1947. Its covered soboty arcade preserves the character of historic Podhale architecture. The visit b…
Inwałd
**The Shrine of Our Lady of Inwałd**, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on the road from Wadowice to Andrychów. The late-Baroque brick-and-stone church was built in 1747–1750 by foundation of Franciszek Szwarzen…
Sucha Beskidzka
In the centre of Sucha Beskidzka, a few hundred metres from the Renaissance castle, **two churches** stand side by side: a 17th-century temple of the Canons Regular of the Lateran and an eclectic parish church designed by **Teodor Talowski…
Chrzanów
**The Church of the Transfiguration in Libiąż** is a powerful red-brick Neo-Gothic church completed in 1911. Its interior deliberately echoes St Mary’s Basilica in Kraków, giving the building a distinctive place among the monuments of west…
Zator
**The wooden Church of St Andrew in Graboszyce** is a small 1585 church on the Lesser Poland Wooden Architecture Trail. Its distinctive features include log construction, a tall tower with later additions and a two-storey sacristy along th…
Rudno
In Morawica in the commune of Liszki, in the Kraków Valleys near Kraków, stands the church of St. Bartholomew the Apostle of **1748**, designed by the Italian architect **Francesco Placidi**. This is only the newest layer of a place whose…
Jerzmanowice
**St Bartholomew the Apostle Church in Jerzmanowice** is a Classicist church in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The present masonry building was erected in 1827–1830 on the site of an older royal timber parish church. After an enlargement i…