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Wooden Architecture Trail in Małopolska

More than 1,500 kilometres of routes linking 252 wooden landmarks — churches, tserkvas, manor houses, inns and open-air museums — the Wooden Architecture Trail in Małopolska is the region's largest cultural tourism route. As many as 8 monuments are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

From Kraków to the Pieniny Mountains

The trail covers four regions: Kraków and its surroundings, Tarnów and its surroundings, Orawa, Podhale, Spisz and the Pieniny Mountains, and Nowy Sącz and Gorlice. It was created in 2001–2003 through the cooperation of the Małopolska, Silesia and Subcarpathian voivodeships, and its sites are marked with information boards in three languages: Polish, English and German.

Eight UNESCO monuments

The World Heritage List includes: the Church of St Michael the Archangel in Binarowa, the Church of St Michael the Archangel in Dębno Podhalańskie, the Church of St Leonard in Lipnica Murowana, the Church of St Philip and James in Sękowa, and the tserkvas in Złockie, Powroźnik, Owczary and Kwiatoń.

What else to see

Beyond the churches, the trail leads to Villa Koliba in Zakopane, the chapel in Jaszczurówka, the Rzym inn in Sucha Beskidzka, the manor house in Łopuszna, the Nikifor Museum in Krynica and the painted village of Zalipie. In 2013 the Polish Chamber of Tourism awarded the trail its Golden Certificate for the best tourism product in Poland — recognition for a project that protects the wooden architecture and culture of the old countryside from being forgotten.