Tripto Guide
10 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.

Święta Katarzyna
Until **2018**, the western summit of Łysica with its cross (612 m) was considered the highest point of the mountain. Measurements taken in 2018 showed that Skała Agata — the rocky eastern peak — rises almost two metres higher, to **614 m…

Święta Katarzyna
The Edmund Massalski Main Holy Cross Mountains Trail is the longest hiking trail in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. Red markers lead for approximately **105 km** from Gołoszyce to Kuźniaki, crossing the Jeleniowskie and Łysogóry ranges and t…

Święta Katarzyna
**Święty Krzyż Monastery** stands on Łysa Góra, at 595 m above sea level, in the heart of Świętokrzyski National Park. The former Benedictine abbey is now home to the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and the Sanctuary of the Relics of…

Święta Katarzyna
At the foot of Łysa Góra, in the small town on the road leading to Święty Krzyż, stands the stone church of St Lawrence — a witness to seven centuries of the Holy Cross Mountains. The parish is first mentioned in a Peter's pence register f…

Święta Katarzyna
Beneath the monastery on Święty Krzyż, at the top of Łysa Góra, stretch crypts holding the coffins of former monks — some of the bodies mummified naturally in the cool, damp underground. In a separate chamber lies Prince Jeremi Wiśniowieck…

Święta Katarzyna
In antiquity the Holy Cross Mountains were — outside the Roman Empire — the largest iron-smelting centre in Europe. In bloomery furnaces, one-off clay constructions, the inhabitants of these lands of the Przeworsk culture smelted metal, se…

Święta Katarzyna
At the foot of Łysa Góra, on the opposite side from Nowa Słupia, the Medieval Settlement stands in Huta Szklana in the Bieliny commune — a dozen-odd reconstructed rural huts with full furnishings. The site belongs to the Centre of Traditio…

Święta Katarzyna
At 425 m above sea level, at the foot of Łysica — the highest peak of the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains at 612 m — the year-round Sabat Krajno resort combines a miniature park, an amusement park and a ski station above the village…

Święta Katarzyna
On the summit of Łysa Góra (**594 m asl**), also called Święty Krzyż (Holy Cross), a large viewing platform has been built. Its greatest asset is not only the panorama of the Świętokrzyskie ranges but what lies directly beneath your feet:…

Święta Katarzyna
A car route of **150 km** through the sites of the oldest industrial district in Poland: the Old-Polish Industrial District, the most industrialised region of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It links **thirteen** heritage-of-technology…