Places

Towns and landmarks in the Polish Beskids with verified history, sources, and links to the map and badges.

  • Babia Góra (Witches' Mountain)

    Municipality: Zawoja

    The highest peak of the Beskids, known for its capricious weather and spectacular sunrises.

    Nature

  • Bartne

    Municipality: Sękowa

    Sacred sitesHistoric site

  • Chyrowa

    Municipality: Dukla

    Sacred sitesHistoric site

  • Cisna

    Municipality: Cisna

    Seat of Cisna gmina in the Solinka valley, within the Ciśniańsko-Wetliński Landscape Park. The village lies on an old salt route to Slovakia, and the red Main Beskid Trail runs through it.

    Nature

  • Glinne Pass

    Nature

  • Hala Krupowa

    Mountain hut

  • Izby

    Municipality: Uście Gorlickie

    A village in Uście Gorlickie gmina, close to the Slovak border. The main trail to Lackowa, the highest peak of the Polish part of the Low Beskids (997 m), starts in Izby.

    Sacred sitesHistoric site

  • Komańcza

    Municipality: Komańcza

    Sacred sitesHistoric site

  • Koniaków

    Municipality: Istebna

    Koniaków is the highest situated village in the Silesian Beskids, part of the Beskid Tri-village. It is famous for its unique craft – Koniaków lace – and the vast panoramas stretching from the slopes of Ochodzita and Koczy Zamek.

    CultureViewpoint

  • Koninki

    Municipality: Niedźwiedź

    A tourist settlement at the foot of Tobołów (957 m), within the village of Poręba Wielka in Niedźwiedź gmina. Blue and green trails lead from here to Turbacz, and a chairlift runs on Tobołów.

    NatureSkiingCycling

  • Korbielów

    Municipality: Jeleśnia

    A village in Jeleśnia gmina on the slopes of Pilsko. It began as a Wallachian settlement of the 15th century; the PTTK hostel "Chata Baców" has operated here since 1967, and the Pilsko ski resort was built in the 1980s.

    Mountain hutSkiing

  • Koszarawa

    Municipality: Koszarawa

    A village and the seat of Koszarawa gmina in the south of Silesian Voivodeship, in Żywiec County. It lies on the slopes of the Mędralowa Group and of the Jałowiec, Solniska and Laskowski ranges, 11 km from Jeleśnia and 22 km from Sucha Beskidzka.

    Sacred sites

  • Kroscienko nad Dunajcem

    Municipality: Krościenko nad Dunajcem

    Seat of the Pieniny National Park, whose head office is at ul. Jagiellońska 107b; the park was established in 1932 as the first in Poland. The village has alkaline-saline mineral waters, among them the springs "Stefan i Michalina" and "Maria".

    Other

  • Krowiarki Pass

    A pass in the Babia Góra range crossed by voivodeship road no. 957. It separates the Babia Góra massif from the Polica range; the boundaries of Zawoja, Zubrzyca Górna and Lipnica Mała meet here.

    Nature

  • Krynica-Zdrój

    Municipality: Krynica-Zdrój

    SkiingHistoric site

  • Markowe Szczawiny

    Mountain hut

  • Ostre

    Municipality: Lipowa

    A village in Lipowa gmina on the western edge of the Żywiec Basin, at the foot of Ostre mountain (932 m) in the Silesian Beskids. A blue trail leads from here to Skrzyczne and a green one via Kościelec to Malinowska Skała.

    Sacred sites

  • Przybyszów

    Municipality: Bukowsko

    A village in Bukowsko gmina that no longer exists; after the Second World War its residents were resettled to the Ukrainian SSR. From November 1918 to January 1919 it belonged to the Komańcza Republic.

    Other

  • Rabka-Zdroj

    For kids

  • Regietów

    Municipality: Uście Gorlickie

    Historic siteSacred sites