Bąkowiec Castle

Rope Park in Podlesice

Silesian

2.2 km

In the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, in Podlesice in the Kroczyce commune, next to the Ostaniec Hotel and not far from the **Góra Zborów** reserve, operates a rope park opened in **2013** and expanded a year later. It makes a convenient base…

Rock Outcrops and Climbing in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland

Silesian

2.5 km

The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, better known as the Jura, is a belt of white limestone outcrops stretching about **80 km** between Kraków and Częstochowa. The towers are built of hard Upper Jurassic limestones, and their present shapes were…

Jura Natural and Cultural Heritage Centre

Silesian

2.6 km

## What you will find here The Jura Natural and Cultural Heritage Centre in Podlesice is an educational base in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Its exhibition presents the geology, nature and history of the Góra Zborów area through fossils,…

Góra Zborów

Silesian

2.6 km

Góra Zborów near Podlesice is a limestone hill about 462 metres high and the centrepiece of the Góra Zborów nature reserve. Together with nearby Kołoczek, it forms the rockiest part of the Kroczyce Rocks. Trails pass between limestone outc…

Lapidarium in Podlesice

Silesian

2.7 km

At the foot of Góra Zborów, a few steps from the Heritage Centre of the Jura in Podlesice, an open-air collection of stone witnesses to the history of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland has been laid out. Each block has an information board, so…

Głęboka Cave in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland

Silesian

2.8 km

Głęboka Cave in the Góra Zborów rock near Podlesice is the most popular underground tourist route in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. **The route is 190 metres long** and descends about **20 metres into the rock**, through chambers filled wi…

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Skarżyce in Skarżyce

Silesian

2.9 km

Skarżyce, a separate village until 1977 and today a district of Zawiercie, hide one of the more interesting monuments of the Jura: the church of the Most Holy Trinity with three round chapels symbolising God in three persons. Since **1999*…

Okiennik Wielki Rock in the Jura

Silesian

3.0 km

Okiennik Wielki is the best-known rock outlier in the Silesian part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland and one of its symbols. It rises at the border of the villages of Piaseczno and Skarżyce (Kroczyce commune), right beside the red Trail of…

Rocks of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland

3.0 km

White rock outcrops rising from forests and fields are the most characteristic feature of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Their material settled on the floor of a shallow, warm sea during the Jurassic period, between **201 and 145 million y…