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

Wieliczka
**The Wieliczka Salt Mine** is one of Poland’s best-known industrial-heritage sites. Salt was extracted here from the 13th century until 1996, while the underground city reaches 327 metres and contains roughly 300 km of galleries. Visitors…

Wieliczka
Żupny Castle in Wieliczka is an interesting stop connected with the area’s history, culture or landscape. Include it in a sightseeing plan and combine it with other nearby places. Check current opening hours and access details before visit…

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…

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…

Wieliczka
The Kraków Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka is a national cultural institution founded in **1951** on the initiative of Alfons Długosz, a teacher from Wieliczka. Its collections hold around **20,000 objects** devoted to the history of salt mi…

Wieliczka
On the market square of Wieliczka, since **May 2012**, visitors have found a free attraction on a scale rarely seen in Polish towns: the 3D street painting "Salt World" — the largest in Poland and one of the largest in Europe. The mural co…

Wieliczka
The late Baroque palace at Mieczysław Skulimowski square is one of the most interesting monuments of Wieliczka — today the seat of the Malopolska-Swietokrzyski branch of the Institute of National Remembrance, its walls holding traces of mo…

Wieliczka
The brine graduation tower in Wieliczka stands in Park św. Kingi, a few minutes from the centre and the Daniłowicz Shaft. Opened at the end of **2014**, it is the largest structure of its kind in southern Poland: it measures around **53 by…

Wieliczka
In the centre of Niepołomice, less than 25 km from Kraków, stands the Gothic-Renaissance royal castle to which the town owes its nickname of the second Wawel. Built by Casimir the Great, it served the kings above all as a base for hunting…