Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
344 places
Bugaj
The Church of St Erasmus in Barwałd Dolny stands on the road between Wadowice and Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. The present wooden church was built in 1782 and belongs to the Lesser Poland Wooden Architecture Trail. Its key feature is a 16th-cent…
Korzkiew
**St Giles Church in Giebułtów** is a Late-Renaissance church a few kilometres north-west of Kraków, in the Prądnik valley. It is a place where a medieval tradition meets a well-preserved early-17th-century building. ## Legend and document…
Dobczyce
**St John the Baptist Church in Dobczyce** stands in the Old Town, above the former cemetery and close to the castle ruins. The present Neoclassical church is not the oldest building on the site, but it preserves reminders of several centu…
Szczyrzyc
## Key information The Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria in Wilkowisko, in the Jodłownik commune, is a wooden church at the foot of the Island Beskids. It stands in the village centre beside the parish cemetery. The present building wa…
Ludźmierz
**The Church of St Catherine of Alexandria in Nowy Targ** is the town’s oldest surviving monument and one of the key historic landmarks of Podhale. The small church stands on Kościelna Street, a few steps from the market square. ## A royal…
Bydlin
Wolbrom, a small town between Olkusz and Zawiercie, has **St. Catherine's church** by its market square — a white, Baroque temple from the 17th century entered through ornate doors from the square side. Next to it rises an equally white, t…
Wieliczka
Facing the Saltworks Castle in Wieliczka stands **St. Clement's Church** — the parish church whose history is as old as local mining itself. The first mention of the parochial temple comes from the bull of **Gregory IX of 1229**, and its p…
Zawoja
**St Clement’s Church in central Zawoja** is one of the largest and most unusual wooden churches in southern Poland. Its interior, supported by cast-iron columns, surprises with its scale, while its location below Babia Góra makes it a use…
Chabówka
**The Church of the Holy Cross on Obidowa in Chabówka** is a wooden church and a place of devotion to St Christopher beside the popular route into Podhale. Its story combines local legend, pilgrimage traditions and a difficult rebuilding a…
Czchów
## Key information St. Leonard’s Church in Wojnicz is a small wooden filial church on St. Leonard Street. Its log construction, shingle roof and historic surroundings make it a worthwhile stop in Wojnicz. The interior is notable for its Re…
Inwałd
By the market square of Andrychów stands the Church of St. Matthias the Apostle — the oldest church in town and a trace of its medieval beginnings. The parish was erected in **1325**, and 14th-century documents mention the settlement under…
Bydlin
In the central part of Bydlin, a village in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the Church of St. Margaret — a church from **1865**, raised most probably on the site of an older wooden one. Parish traditions here reach back to the turn o…
Czerna
On Grunwaldzka Street in Krzeszowice, between Kraków and Katowice, rises the neo-Gothic church of St. Martin — designed by **Karl Friedrich Schinkel**, the celebrated architect of Berlin. The founder was **Artur Potocki**, heir of Krzeszow…
Szczyrzyc
In Kasina Wielka in the Mszana Dolna commune, in the heart of the Beskid Wyspowy mountains, stands the wooden St. Mary Magdalene’s Church from **1678** — a stop on the Lesser Poland Wooden Architecture Trail. Its predecessor, built in the…
Klimkówka
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Binarowa, about 5 km from Biecz, is one of Lesser Poland’s most valuable wooden monuments. Built around 1500, it joined the UNESCO list in 2003 as one of the six Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser…
Chrzanów
On Mickiewicza Street 5 stands the church of St. Nicholas, the parish church of Chrzanów, whose oldest surviving part is the Gothic presbytery from the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. The church took its final shape in the 15th centur…
Wadowice
A few minutes from the market square of Wadowice stands the church of St. Peter the Apostle — a votive offering of gratitude for the election of Karol Wojtyła as pope and for his survival of the assassination attempt of 13 May 1981. It was…
Wieliczka
## Key information St. Sebastian’s Church at 23 Świętego Sebastiana Street is one of Wieliczka’s most valuable wooden monuments. This small larchwood church stands on a hill among old trees, close to the town centre and the salt mine. It i…
Czorsztyn
In Frydman in the Spiš region, by the road along the Białka river, stands the oldest monument of sacral architecture in the whole Podtatrze area: the church of St. Stanislaus. Its Early Gothic core was most probably built at the turn of th…
Korzkiew
The Church of St Adalbert and Our Lady of Sorrows in Modlnica is one of the most valuable wooden monuments near Kraków. It stands at 81 Świętego Wojciecha Street, near the road to Olkusz, and belongs to the Wooden Architecture Trail of Mał…
gmina Pilica
## Key information The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Wolbrom, locally called the Marian or Hospital Church, stands at the corner of Mariacka and Tadeusza Kościuszki streets. This early Baroque larch-wood…
Stary Wiśnicz
Next to the market square of Nowy Wiśnicz, a private town raised by a magnate family, stands the Baroque church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The founder was hetman **Stanisław Lubomirski**, who developed Wiśnicz at the sam…
Oświęcim
By the market square of Oświęcim stands the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose origins reach back to the **12th century**. The first, wooden church burned during the Mongol invasion of **1241**; a later brick one di…
Dębno
In Łososina Górna near Nowy Sącz stands the wooden church of All Saints, the temple with the oldest credentials in the area. The present structure dates from **1778**, but it was built on the base of earlier sacral buildings, including a c…