38 Sights in Zakopane, Poland (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Zakopane, Poland! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Zakopane. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Zakopane1. Cmentarz Zasłużonych na Pęksowym Brzyzku
The Cemetery of Merit in Pęksowy Brzyzek in Zakopane – the first cemetery in Zakopane at Kościeliska Street, founded in the second half of the 19th century by the first parish priest of Zakopane, Father Józef Stolarczyk.
2. Galeria Sztuki XX wieku w willi Oksza
Villa "Oksza" – a residential building in the Zakopane style, designed in the years 1894–1895 by Stanisław Witkiewicz and located in Zakopane at 25 Zamoyskiego Street. Since 2006, it has been the seat of a branch of the Dr. Tytus Chałubiński Tatra Museum, where the Gallery of 20th Century Art is located.
3. Kaplica pw. Najświętszego Serca Jezusa w Jaszczurówce
Jaszczurówka chapel, chapel in Lizard, chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - a cup church of the Roman Catholic parish in Toporowa Cyrhla. The temple designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz began to be built in 1904, and was dedicated in 1907.
Wikipedia: Kaplica Najświętszego Serca Jezusa w Jaszczurówce (PL)
4. Willa Pod Jedlami
The "Pod Jedlami" Villa – a villa in the Zakopane style in Zakopane designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz. Built in 1897, investor Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski, building structures: Zapotoczny and Obrochta.
5. Muzeum Jana Kasprowicza
Villa "Harenda" – the house of Jan Kasprowicz in Zakopane on Harenda, on the slopes of Gubałówka. The poet purchased it in 1923 from the English painter Winifred Cooper with the money he earned from translating Shakespeare. Currently, it houses Kasprowicz's biographical and literary museum. The name of the villa comes from the inn "Pod Arendą" located in Czarnowąsy near Opole. Later Kasprowicz changed the name by adding a highlander aspiration h. The future poet visited this inn during his school education in 1881.
6. Dworzec Tatrzański
Tatra Railway Station – a building located in Zakopane at 12 Krupówki Street. It served as the first Zakopane cultural center. It has never been a railway station, the railway station in Zakopane is located in a completely different part of the city.
7. Jaskinia Bystrej
Bystra Cave, formerly also Nižní Kalacká Cave – a cave located in the Western Tatras in the Bystra Valley, at the foot of Kalacká Turnia. Together with the Kalacka Cave and the Dudnica Cave, it is part of the drainage system of the Giewont massif.
8. Klasztor Albertynek na Kalatówkach
The Albertine Monastery in Kalatówki is a monastery and hermit complex of the Albertine Sisters' Convent in Kalatówki in Zakopane. It is located on the Brother Albert Road from Kuźnice to the Kalatówka clearing. Geographically, it is located in the Tatra Mountains, administratively it belongs to Zakopane.
9. Jaskinia Juhaska
Juhaska Cave, formerly known as Juhaska Cave – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Strążyska Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two entrance openings located in the northern wall of Juhaska Turnia in the massif of Długi Giewont, in the Banie couloir, at a distance of about 100 m in a straight line from the Wyżnia Sucha Pass, at an altitude of 1570 m and 1586 m above sea level. The length of the cave is 23 meters, and its denivelation is 16 meters.
10. Kościół pw. św. Jana Apostoła i Ewangelisty
The Church of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist in Harenda – a wooden church built in the years 1710–1720 in Zakrzów near Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, moved in 1947 to Zakopane. It is surrounded by Saturdays. The interior is decorated with guild paintings, renovated by Władysław Jarocki. Next to the church there is a mausoleum and the villa "Harenda". The church is located on the Małopolska Wooden Architecture Route.
Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jana Apostoła i Ewangelisty na Harendzie (PL)
11. Władysław Hasior Gallery
The Władysław Hasior Gallery is an art gallery in Zakopane founded in 1985, functioning as a branch of the National Tatra Museum. It is Władysław Hasior's gallery presenting a collection of about 200 of his works.
12. Ogród Botaniczny im. Mariana Raciborskiego
Marian Raciborski Mountain Botanical Garden of the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Zakopane – the botanical garden in Zakopane is an integral part of the Tatra Field Station of the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It is the smallest botanical garden in Poland.
13. Chatka Św. Brata Alberta
Brother Albert's Hermitage – a small wooden building in the Albertine monastery in Kalatówki in Zakopane. It was built in 1901. It is a modest two-room building with an attic, a small porch and a narrow vestibule. One room was intended for an auxiliary room for priests who celebrated Holy Masses in the chapel of the Albertine nuns, the other for a cell for brother Albert, that is, Adam Chmielowski, the founder of this convent. He stayed there when he came from Krakow. This cell is almost entirely occupied by a wooden, narrow bunk.
14. Suchy Wierch
Suchy Wierch – a montane peak in the Polish Western Tatras, rising in the ridge separating the Strążyska Valley in the west from the Biały Valley in the east. In this ridge it is located between Nižní Suchá sedloľa (1508 m) and Červená sedlo (1301 m). In its eastern slopes there are no ridges or perches, while in the western direction from its top the Horse Ridge separates the Jeleni Żleb from Sarni Żleb.
15. Jaskinia Kalacka
Kalacka Cave – a cave located in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of Kalacka Turnia descending to the Kalatówka clearing, above the Bystra Spring, slightly above the marked tourist trail to the Kondratowa Valley, at an altitude of 1230 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 405 meters, and its denivelation is 19 meters.
16. Turnia nad Białem
Crag on the Biały River – a crag in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Polish Western Tatras. It is located in the eastern part of this ridge, steeply descending to Kalacka Kopa, between Wrótki and Wyżne Wrótki. The latter pass is located just on the west side of Turnia nad Białem, while a grassy and rocky ridge about 450 m long descends to Wrótka.
17. Centrum Edukacji Przyrodniczej Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego
The Nature Education Center of the Tatra National Park, formerly the Natural History Museum of the Tatra National Park in Zakopane – an institution of the Tatra National Park, which operated under the name of the Natural History Museum of the Tatra National Park in the years 1984–2004.
Wikipedia: Centrum Edukacji Przyrodniczej Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego (PL)
18. Jaskinia Kasprowa Średnia
Kasprowa Średnia Cave – a cave in the Stare Szałasiska valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in Zawracik Kasprowy at an altitude of 1407 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 150 meters, and its denivelation is 53 meters. Above it is the Kasprowa Wyżnia Cave.
19. Jaskinia Kasprowa Wyżnia
Kasprowa Wyżnia Cave – a cave in the Stare Szałasiska valley in the Western Tatras. It has three entrance openings in Zawracik Kasprowy above the Kasprowa Medium Cave at an altitude of 1438, 1463 and 1467 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 100 meters, and its height difference is 24.7 meters.
20. Palace
The Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom "Palace" in Zakopane – a museum located in Zakopane. The facility is run by the Association of the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom "Palace" - Torture Chamber of Podhale based in Zakopane.
Wikipedia: Muzeum Walki i Męczeństwa „Palace” w Zakopanem (PL), Website
21. Dudnica
Dudnica – a cave in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two entrance openings, located close to each other, at the foot of Kalacka Turnia at an altitude of 1181 meters above sea level, near the mouth of the Bystra Cave. The length of the cave is 185 meters, and the denivelation is 12 meters.
22. Kalacka Turnia
Kalacka Turnia – a crag rising above the Kalatówki clearing in the Polish Tatra Mountains. It is located at the end of the eastern ridge of the Long Giewont. On Kalacka Kopa this ridge splits into two branches; Kalacka Turnia is located in the orographically right. Its south-western slopes descend to the Bystra Valley, the north-eastern slopes to the Kalacký Riverbed. The slopes are now completely forested, only the very top is rocky, similar to the ruins of a castle. For this reason, in the first half of the nineteenth century, it was called the "Zakopane Castle". It is built of limestone rocks. The limestone substrate causes karst phenomena to occur here. At the south-western foot of Kalacka Turnia there is a large Bystra Spring, and in the slopes there are caves: Mokra Koleba, Fascinating Nyża, Kalacki Tunnel, Dudnica, Kalacka Cave, Bystra Cave, Hole behind the Boulders, Kozi Korytarz.
23. Dworzec PKP Zakopane
Zakopane railway station is a railway station in Zakopane, Poland and the terminus of PKP rail line 99. The station was opened in 1899 and electrified in 1975. It is also the highest situated staffed railway station in Poland at 835 metres above sea level. As of 2023, it is served by Koleje Śląskie, Polregio, and PKP Intercity.
24. Zawracik Kasprowy
Zawratik Kasprowy – a ridge branching off from Rówienki in the Polish Western Tatras and is an extension of Zawrat Kasprowy. From Rówienki it descends west-north-west, ending at Kasprowa Polana. On the eastern side, its slopes are steep, overgrown with forest cliffs, while on the west side, to Stare Szałasiska, it descends with a rock wall up to 100 m high. one of the scree runs westwards, separating Zawracik and Zawrat Kasprowy from each other, the other forested slopes in the north-western direction to Kasprowa Polana.
25. Juhaska Turnia
Juhaska Turnia – a crag in the ridge of Długi Giewont in the Polish Western Tatras, located between Juhaska Przehyba and Szczerbinka. On the southern side, a several-dozen-meter-high wall descends to the Great Upłaz in the Kondratowa Valley, while in the northern direction the outstanding Juhaski Filar descends from it to the Banie couloir in the Strążyska Valley.
26. Kondracka Kopka
Kondracka Kopka – a mound in the northern ridge of Kopa Kondracka, located between the Kondracka Pass and the Wyżnia Kondracka Pass, above which it rises only a few meters. It is mostly overgrown with dwarf pine, grassy and scree in places. Its eastern slopes descend to Hell in the Kondratowa Valley, the western slopes to Wyżni in the Mała Łąki Valley. A short perch descends to the latter valley from Kondracka Kopka, separating two gullies descending from the slopes below the Kondracka Pass and Wyżnia Kondracka. These gullies below the perch connect with each other, creating the Głazisty Żleb. The opposite slopes between Kondracka Kopka and Giewont are cut into the Kurski Żleb.
27. Mokra Koleba
Mokra Koleba – a cave, or rather a shelter, in the Kondratowa Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the southern slope of Kalacka Turnia, at an altitude of 1285 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 11 meters, and its denivelation is 2.5 meters.
28. Juhaska Kopa
Juhaska Kopa – a small bulge in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Polish Western Tatras between Juhaska Przehyba and Wyżni Wrótki. The northern slopes descend with a wall both to the Sucha Valley and to the Banie couloir in the upper part of the Strążyska Valley. The southern slopes descend to the Kondratowa Valley.
29. Skrajna Giewoncka Baszta
Extreme Giewwoncka Tower - one of the Turnia in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. It is located at its northern end, between the Bacuch Pass and the Pass of the Hole. The western slopes fall to the Little Meadow Valley, northern to the gully of Warzech, the east to the gully of Kirkora. The height of small Giewont, given on many maps, most likely refers to this Turnia, because it seems to be the highest from Zakopane, for Austrian cartographers it was also the easiest available.
30. Zadnia Giewoncka Baszta
Zadnia Giewoncka Baszta – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. Like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, it is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite. It is located between Zadni Giewoncki Karbik and Skrajny Giewoncki Karbik. The eastern walls descend to the Kirkor Gully, the south-western to the Mała Łąki Valley near the Siodło Pass.
31. Giewoncki Chłopek
Giewoncki Chłopek – crag in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. It is located between the Giewoncka Pass and the Zadni Giewoncka Baszta. In the ridge between the Giewoncka Pass and Giewoncki Chłopek there are several more small turnstiles, while it is separated from the Zadnia Giewoncka Tower by the Zadni Giewoncki Karbik. It descends to it with an almost vertical fault of about 10 m. The passage through this fault was rated as III on the UIAA (Tatra) scale of difficulty. Giewoncki Chłopek can be easily walked around from the south, while to the north side it descends to the Kirkor Gully with a wall.
32. Biała Czubka
Biała Czubka – a hill in the Giewont massif in the Polish Western Tatras. It is located in the White Ridge between the Wyżnia Pass of Biały and the Pass of Biały. The north-western slopes are covered with a forest called Patyky, the eastern slopes called Kalacki Upłaz. Due to the former pastoral economy, they were heavily depleted and heavily eroded, but now they are also covered with forest.
33. Szara Turnia
Szara Turnia – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. It is the most prominent of all crags of Mały Giewont and is well visible from Zakopane, especially in the morning. It is located on the north-eastern ridge of the Extreme Giewoncka Baszta, separated from its top by the Grey Pass. It has two peaks, the southern one is slightly higher. From the shallow and grassy saddle between these peaks, the jam falls. It is steep and stretches along the entire length of the wall. The northern walls of Szara Turnia descend to Szary Żleb. In the upper part of the wall of the northern peak of Szara Turnia there is a partly grassy, partly slab west. Szara Turnia, like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite.
34. Biała Giewoncka Baszta
Biała Giewoncka Baszta – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. Like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, it is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite. It is located between the Pass over the Hole and the Giewoncki Pass. The north-eastern walls descend to the Kirkor Gully, the south-western to the Mała Łąki Valley; from this side, they are covered by two arms of the Gully with the Threshold approaching the passes on both sides of the crag.
35. Mała Krokiew
Mała Krokiew – the lower of the two peaks of the Krokiew massif in the montane part of the Polish Western Tatras. From the main peak of 1378 m located to the north of it, Mała Krokiew is separated by a shallow and wide Siwarowy Siodło, while in the south it borders with the White Ridge with the two-saddle Biały Pass. The nearest hill to Mała Krokiew is Biała Czubka, separated from it by the Niżnia Przełęka Białego. In the longer term, Mała Krokiew in the south is adjacent to Kalacka Kopa in the Giewont massif.
36. Wysoka Giewoncka Baszta
High Giewoncka Baszta – one of the crags in Mały Giewont in the Western Tatras. Like the entire massif of Mały Giewont, it is built of sedimentary rocks – limestone and dolomite. It is located between the Extreme Giewoncki Karbik and the Giewoncki Pass. The eastern walls descend to the Kirkor Gully, while to the west to the Mała Łąka Valley there is a short ridge ending with the Saddle Crag. From the side of Saddle Turnia, this ridge is quite clear, rounded and grassy, above the Saddle it flattens out and grows into the walls of the Zadnia Giewoncka Tower in a hardly distinguishable place. In addition, one more rocky perch descends to the Valley of the Small Meadow from Wysoka Giewoncka Turnia, which separates two gullies. Looking from the bottom, on the left side of this perch there is the Gully with the Threshold, on the right the Gully of the Sleeping Knights.
37. Zameczki
Zameczki – a group of crags and rocks in the Biały Valley in the Polish Western Tatras. They are located in an unnamed ridge about 1.5 km long, which branches off from the ridge of Długi Giewont about 200 m west of Wrótki and descends northwards to the Biały Valley, dividing its upper part into two branches. The castles are located in this ridge above the Path over the Reglami, the ridge continues down the Biały Valley.
38. Sucha Czubka
Sucha Czubka – an unremarkable montane peak in the ridge separating the Biały Valley from the Strążyska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the upper, southern part of this ridge, between Wyżnia Sucha Przełęcza and Niżnia Sucha Przełęcza. On the eastern side, its slopes descend to the Sucha Valley. On the western side, to Wielka Równia in the upper part of the Strążyska Valley, the wooded and rocky Deer Ridge descends from it.
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