19 Sights in Zakopane, Poland (with Map and Images)

Villa "Harenda" – the house of Jan Kasprowicz in Zakopane on Harenda, on the slopes of Gubałówka. The poet acquired it in 1923 from the English painter Winifred Cooper with the money earned from the translation of 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. Then Kasprowicz changed the name by adding highlander breath h. The future poet visited this inn during his school education in 1881.

Wikipedia: Willa „Harenda” (PL), Website

Kalacka Kopa is a mountain in the eastern ridge of the Long Giewont in the Polish Tatra Mountains. It is a small mound in the ridge, but it has topographical significance, because the ridge branches into two ridges in it; in the south-eastern direction falls the ridge topped with Kalacka Turnia, in the north-eastern direction stretches the White Ridge connecting Giewont with Mała Krokiew in the Krokiew massif. Between these ridges there is a Kalatówki couloir Kalackie Koryto.

Wikipedia: Kalacka Kopa (PL)

Dziura – a small cave located in the Western Tatras, in the Valley towards the Hole. The entrance opening of the cave, 3 m wide and 2 m high, is located at the foot of the Wall above the Hole, at an altitude of 1002 m above sea level in the ridge of Spaleńec. A blue hiking trail leads to the entrance. The cave was formed in limestone rocks and consists of one large hall, at the end of which in the ceiling there is a second opening, located at an altitude of 1018 m.

Wikipedia: Dziura (jaskinia) (PL)

Dziura Wyżnia – Lisia Jama – a system of two caves in the Valley towards the Hole in the Western Tatras. The entrances to it are located on the eastern slope of the Valley towards the Hole, in the same rock as the Dziura cave, but from the south, at an altitude of 1040 meters above sea level and 1037 meters above sea level. The length of this cave system is about 160 meters, and its denivelation is 14 meters.

Wikipedia: Dziura Wyżnia – Lisia Jama (PL)

Antoni Rząsa Gallery in Zakopane – author's gallery, built by Zakopane sculptor Antoni Rząsa (1919–1980) at 16a Bogdańskiego Street. The exhibition facility has been operating since 1976. Since 1981, it has been run by the artist's son, Marcin Rząsa. In addition to the permanent exhibition of Antoni Rząsa's sculptures, the gallery presents temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.

Wikipedia: Galeria Antoniego Rząsy (PL)

Kalacka Cave is a cave located in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of Kalacka Turnia falling into the Kalatówki clearing, above Wywierzysko Bystra, 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.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia Kalacka (PL)

Church of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist in Harenda - a wooden church from the eighteenth century, moved in 1947 from Zakrzów near Kalwaria Zebrzydowska to Zakopane. He is surrounded by Saturdays. The interior is decorated with guild paintings, renovated by Władysław Jarocki. Next to the church there is a mausoleum and a biographical museum of Kasprowicz.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jana Apostoła i Ewangelisty na Harendzie (PL)

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 railway station in Poland at 835 metres above sea level. As of 2023, it is served by Koleje Śląskie, Polregio, and PKP Intercity.

Wikipedia: Zakopane railway station (EN)

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 Tatra Museum named after Dr. Tytus Chałubiński, it houses the Gallery of Art of the 20th century.

Wikipedia: Willa „Oksza” (PL), Website

Marian Racibórz Mountain Botanical Garden of the Institute of Nature Conservation PAS in Zakopane – a 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.

Wikipedia: Ogród Botaniczny w Zakopanem (PL), Website

Mokra Koleba – a cave, or actually a shelter, in the Kondratowa Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in 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.

Wikipedia: Mokra Koleba (PL)

The Nature Education Centre 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 functioned under the name of the TPN Natural History Museum in the years 1984–2004.

Wikipedia: Centrum Edukacji Przyrodniczej Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego (PL)

Dudnica is a cave in the Rapids Valley of West Tatras. It has two close entrance holes at the foot of Kalacka Turni Mountain at an altitude of 1,181 meters. Near the exit of Swift Cave. The length of the cave is 185 meters and the ground is 12 meters.

Wikipedia: Dudnica (PL)

Bystra Cave, formerly also Nizhnya Kalacka Cave - a cave located in the Western Tatras in the Bystra Valley, at the foot of Kalacka Turnia. Together with the Kalacka Cave and the Dubnica Cave, it is part of the drainage system of the Giewont massif.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia Bystrej (PL)

Jaszczurówka Chapel, Jaszczurówka Chapel, Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – the filial church of the Roman Catholic parish in Toporowa Cyrhli. The temple designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz began to be built in 1904 and consecrated in 1907.

Wikipedia: Kaplica Najświętszego Serca Jezusa w Jaszczurówce (PL)

The Cemetery of the Meritorious at Peksowy Brzyzek in Zakopane – the first Zakopane cemetery at Kościeliska Street, founded in the second half of the nineteenth century by the first parish priest of Zakopane, priest Józef Stolarczyk.

Wikipedia: Cmentarz Zasłużonych na Pęksowym Brzyzku (PL)

Tatrzan station, Zakopani at 12 Krupwika Street. He served as the First Comoros Community Center. It was never a railway station, and Zakopane's train station is located in a completely different part of the city.

Wikipedia: Dworzec Tatrzański (PL)

Church of St. Anthony in Bystrem in Zakopane – a small church located at the foot of Nosal in Zakopane. The Bernardines serve here. Since 2020, the church has served as the Sanctuary of Saint Anthony of Padua.

Wikipedia: Kościół i klasztor pw. św. Antoniego z Padwy w Zakopanem (PL)

Villa "Pod Jedlami", in. house "Pod Jedlami" – villa in Zakopane style designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz. Year of construction 1897, investor Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski, builders: Zapotoczny and Obrochta.

Wikipedia: Willa „Pod Jedlami” (PL)