Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Kościelisko, Poland

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Experience Kościelisko in Poland in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Kościelisko

Sight 1: Gładka Turnia

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Gładka Turnia Jerzy Opioła / CC BY-SA 4.0

Gładka Turnia – a small crag in the orographically right slopes of the Kraków Gorge in the Western Tatras. It is located in the south-western ridge descending from the top of Upłazkowa Turnia, slightly above Ptakowa Turnia. Kraków descends to the Gorge with a rock wall, which is limited from the left by a shallow gutter overgrown here and there with clumps of grass, and from the right by a chimney with troughs. In the wall there is a smooth slab with a rather prominent pillar falling to the south, covered with eaves from the top. This pillar led a climbing route with two lifts. The first ascent: Dariusz Stawarz and Jacek Stawarz on August 18, 1995. This peak is separated by a small west from the main south-western ridge of Upłazkowa Turnia.

Wikipedia: Gładka Turnia (PL)

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Sight 2: Jaskinia Psia

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Jaskinia Psia Jerzy Opioła / CC BY-SA 4.0

Psia Cave – the largest cave on the slopes of Gubalec falling into the Kraków Gorge in the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located at an altitude of 1410 meters above sea level, 180 m above the bottom of the gorge. The length of the corridors is 1076 meters, the height difference is 62 meters.

Wikipedia: Jaskinia Psia (Tatry) (PL)

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Sight 3: Kościół

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The church is a rock formation in the orographically right slopes of the Kraków Gorge in the Polish Western Tatras. It is the lower part of the Ptakowa Turnia falling to the Market Square in the Kraków Gorge, located at the end of the south-western perch of Upłazkowa Turnia. It is a vertical wall about 50 m high, in the lower part with an overhang about 8 m deep. In this overhang there is a trough about 60 m long, about 12 m high, with an eaves about 8 m deep at the top. The largest of them is about 4 m high. These are the so-called saints. The name comes from the fact that the formation, viewed from a distance, resembles a church with statues of saints. The eaves above them is called the Eaves over the Saints, and the whole formation is called "a rock formation" by Władysław Cywiński in the 3rd volume of the Tatra guide.

Wikipedia: Kościół (Wąwóz Kraków) (PL)

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Sight 4: Upłazkowa Kopa

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Upłazkowa Kopa Jerzy Opioła / CC BY-SA 4.0

Upłazkowa Kopa – a crag in the orographically right slopes of the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the north-western ridge descending from the top of Upłazkowa Turnia to the Pass behind Saturn. It is located in this ridge just on the north-western side of the culmination of Upłazkowa Turnia, separated from it by the Upłazkowy Saddle.

Wikipedia: Upłazkowa Kopa (PL)

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Sight 5: Upłazkowa Turnia

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Upłazkowa Turnia Opioła Jerzy / CC BY 2.5

Uplazkowa Turnia - Turnia in the eastern slopes of the Kościeliska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the south-western ridge departing from Równia on the inn, which through the Uphesive Turnia, Saturn and the Town Hall falls to the bottom of the Kościeliska Valley, creates the right border of the Kraków gorge over a significant length and separates it from the writing gully. Up arrears over the Karczma is separated by a Up arrears, from Saturn, a pass from Saturn. Uplaskowa Turnia is made of carbonate rocks. Watched from above, it is an inconspicuous, not much up to the grassy ridge of the Uploaded Skał group, but to the Kraków gorge it partly falls with walls, and partly a very steep slope. The relative height of the top over the bottom of the Krakow Gorge reaches 350 m. There are many caves here, including Cave with concretions of Niżnia, a hole on the West, hole under the wanta, triangular shelter, shelter in Up arrival Turnia, Up arrival, Up arrears, wet gap, cracked gap, gawra, small gawra, cave at Percia, Skoruszowa cave, cave nad percia, arkada , Shelter at the arcada, cave over the arcade, hole under the arcade, hidden shelter, lamb cave, tunnel under the Up arrival passage, mirror corridor.

Wikipedia: Upłazkowa Turnia (PL)

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Sight 6: Upłazkowy Kopiniak

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Upłazkowy Kopiniak Jerzy Opioła / CC BY-SA 4.0

Upłazkowy Kopiniak – a crag in the central part of Upłazkowa Ridge in the Polish Western Tatras. Its northern wall, about 40 m high, descends to the Pisanski Żleb, while the southern wall to the Upłazkowy Kotło in the Kraków Gorge. The southern wall is about 120 m high and it is the highest wall in the entire Upłazkowa Turnia massif. Both have not yet been climbed by mountaineers. On the other hand, from Upłazkowy Przechod you can go to Upłazkowy Kopiniak without difficulty.

Wikipedia: Upłazkowy Kopiniak (PL)

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Sight 7: Wielka Turnia

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Wielka Turnia Jerzy Opioła / CC BY-SA 4.0

Wielka Turnia – a crag in the orographically left slopes of the Kraków Gorge. It is located in the central part of the northern perch of Gubalec. The northern wall of this crag has a considerable overhang and a height of about 50 m. However, mountaineers were not interested in it. There is a hard-to-reach cave Dziura w Wielka Turnia, as well as the shelter Shelter on the Zakosista River. Above Wielka Turnia, to the top of Gubalec there is a slight, not too steep and forested protrusion, below there is a steep and forested cliff with single rocks.

Wikipedia: Wielka Turnia (Gubalec) (PL)

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Sight 8: Baszta

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Baszta Jerzy Opioła / CC BY-SA 4.0

Baszta – a crag in the orographically left slopes of the Kraków Gorge. It is the end of the north-eastern, forested perch of Gubalec. The top of the Tower rises to a height of about 1320 m above sea level and is separated from the Gubalec perch by a shallow Saddle behind the Tower

Wikipedia: Baszta (Wąwóz Kraków) (PL)

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