The Wooden Archtecture Route leads through the Malopolska and Podkarpacie regions in south and southeast Poland.

The structures are either situated in open air museums (Zubrzyca Górna) or are used to this day as normal residential buildings (Chochlów, Witów). They are spread over a wide area, offering also breathtaking views of mountain landscapes and forests. The wooden huts, churches and other structures visited along the way represent various historical periods, local traditions and cultural influences and as such offer unprecedented diversity of styles. The route is possibly the only one such tourist attraction in Europe.

Alphabetical list of places worth visiting (part 1)
(please click on the map icon on the right to identify the places) 

1. (C-3) Andrzejówka - 18th century Orthodox church, three-part with ice-apron tower.

2. (B-5) Bachórzec – church, three-part, built 1760-1763.

3. (C-4) Balucianka – 17th century Orthodox church, precious furnishings from 17th and 19th century.

4. (C-5) Bandrów Narodowy - cluster of German settlers’ houses. Orthodox church built in 1825.

5. (C-4) Bartne – Orthodox church built in 1842, three-part with a tower, furnishings from 18th and 19th century. Fragments of 19th century cottage houses in the village.

6. (B-1) Barwald Dolny - 18th century church with older tower surprisingly located at the chancel.

7. (C-3) Berest – Orthodox church built in 1842. Iconostas and icons from 18th and 19th century.

8. (C-4) Besko – 18th century church, wooden granary in the neighbourhood. Wooden convent house Felician Sisters from the 1930s.

9. (C-5) Bezmiechowa Górna - Orthodox church, 19th century furnishings.

10. (D-2) Bialka Tartrzanska - church built in 1700, nave and tower.

11. (C-3) Binarowa – church built in 1500, nave with tower and chapel. Gothic sculpture of Holy Mother dated 1400. Precious paintings from 16th and 17th century. A historical monument of recognised significance.

12. (C-3) Binczarowa – Orthodox church built in 1760, three-part, with an ice-apron tower.

13. (C-4) Blizne – mid-15th century church with precious furnishings, figural polychromy painted in 1549 and 1649. In the vicinity a complex of presbytery buildings: presbytery, organist’s house, barn, granary, hospital for the poor.

14. (C-3) Bogusza – Orthodox church built in 1858. Precious furnishings from 17th to 19th century.

15. (C-3) Brunary – 18th century Orthodox church, three-part with an ice-apron tower.

16. (C-5) Brzegi Dolne – 19th century Orthodox church.

17. (D-5) Bystre – Orthodox church built in1902.

18. (C-2) Chabówka – church on Obidowa built in 1757, restored after a 1955 fire, interesting contemporary polychromy.

19. (D-5) Chmiel – Orthodox church built in 1906.

20. (C-2) Chocholów – pictoresque village, natural heritage park with wooden architecture. Framework houses, covered with high, shingle roofs. A unique construction built from the trunk of a single, several-hundred-year-old fir tree.

21. (C-4) Chyrowa – 19th century Orthodox church .

22. (C-3) Ciezkowice - city granted civic rights in 1348, preserved original urban configuration, houses from 17th and 19th century.

23. (C-5) Czarna – Orthodox church built in 1834, with classicism facade shaped in portico.

24. (C-5) Czertez – Orthodox church built in 1742, three-part, single dome. A classic and at the same time the oldest example of Orthodox architecture of Bojkowie (an ethnical group) in Poland. Beside a belfry.

25. (C-2) Debno – 15th century church, preserved without modifications, one of the most precious in Poland, rich furnishings. A crucifix from 14th century, a complete triptych from 16th century.

26. (B-2) Dobczyce – a city by the Raba river, first mentioned in 1226, a small heritage park with inn and farm buildings.

27. (C-5) Dobra – Orthodox church built in 1879, precious gate-belfry in the vicinity.

28. (D-3) Dubne – Orthodox church built in 1863, furnishings from 17th/ 19th century.

29. (D-5) Dwernik – Orthodox church built in the beginning of this century in Lutowiska, moved in 1981 to Dwernik.

30. (B-3) Gosprzydowa - church built in 1694, nave, cloisters, 18th century belfry.

31. (B-1) Graboszyce – church built in 1585, 17th century tower.

32. (C-5) Grabówka – 17th century church. Moved from Grabownica Starzenska.

33. (B-3) Gromnik – church built between 1727 - 50, nave with octagonal tower, interesting carpenter’s craftsmanship details.

34. (C-3) Grybów – former presbytery built in 1699, plastered. Inside a parish museum with paintings from 15th and 16th century.

35. (C-2) Grywald – 15th century church. Nave with an ice-apron tower, precious paintings inside. On of the most precious churches in the Podhale region.

36. (C-4) Haczów – 15th century church, polychromy painted in 1494. One of the biggest and oldest framework sacral constructions in Europe.

37. (C-3) Hanczowa – 18th century Orthodox church, three-part with an ice-apron tower, complete Orthodox furnishings from 18th and 19th century. One of the best preserved Orthodox churches of the Lemkowie ethnic group.

38. (C-2) Harklowa – 15th/ 16th century church, rich furnishings.

39. (C-5) Hlomcza – 19th century Orthodox church with precious Orthodox furnishings.

40. (C-5) Hoczew – 19th century Orthodox presbytery.

41. (C-5) Holuczków – mid-19th century Orthodox church.

42. (C-5) Hoszów – Orthodox church built in 1930

43. (C-5) Humniska – 15th century church, extended in 19th century, one of the oldest wooden churches in Poland. A rare, single space construction variant with narrow transept wings.

44. (C-3) Iwkowa – 15th century cemetery church, murals dated 1629.

45. (C-4) Iwonicz – 15th century church with precious furnishings from 18th and 19th century.

46. (C-4) Iwonicz Zdrój - wooden construction of health resort buildings - 19th/20th century.

47. (C-5) Jacmierz – 17th century church with a 2-tower western facade, in the vicinity: hospital for the poor, wooden catholic church from 1920»s, small town architecture from 19th and 20th century.

48. (C-5) Jalowe – Orthodox church built in 1902.

49. (C-4) Jasienica Rosielna - 18th century Baroque church, precious furnishings.

50. (C-3) Jastrzebia – church built in 1529, nave with tower. 18th century furnishings.

51. (C-3) Jastrzebik – Orthodox church built in 1837, three-part, ice-apron tower, icons from 17th century.

52. (C-4) Jasliska – wooden small town architecture from 18th - 19th century.

53. (C-2) Jodlownik – church built in 1585, nave with an ice-apron tower.

54. (D-2) Jurgów – church built in 1670, rich, baroque furnishings. Several shepherd shelters, a rarity of archaic material culture of mountain regions.

55. (C-5) Jurowce – Orthodox church built in 1873.

56. (C-4) Klimkówka – 19th century church, precious furnishings, including late Gothic table painting dated 1529.

57. (C-2) Kluszkowce – heritage park for tourists, a group of several buildings moved from the area now covered by the Czorsztyn Reservoir. Farm buildings, granaries, summerhouses.

58. (B-4) Kolbuszowa – heritage park presenting architecture characteristic for two ethnic groups: Lasowiakowie and Rzeszowiakowie, total of about 60 buildings.

59. (C-5) Komancza – Orthodox church built in 1800 - 1803, precious furnishings, a church erected after WWII, the last wooden church built.

60. (C-4) Kotan – 17th and 19th century Orthodox church, very picturesque, shingle roof.

61. (B-2) Kraków – Salwator: chapel dated 1680-90, octagonal, central plan, covered with a dome with lamp. Wola Justowska: 16th century church moved from Komorowice, beside a presbytery, an inn with arcades moved from Czernichów and two granaries. Mogila: church built in 1466, rococo murals. Krzeslawice: 17th century church, 18th century polychromy.

62. (C-4) Krempna – Orthodox church dated 1778, precious furnishings.

63. (C-2) Krosno – 15th century church, modernised in 15th century. Precious furnishings from 15th - 17th century.

64. (C-5) Kroscienko – Orthodox church built in 1794, with three domes.

65. (C-4) Królik Polski - 18th century church.

66. (C-3) Królowa Górna - Orthodox church dated 1814. Holy Mother’s icon.

67. (C-3) Kruzlowa Wyzna - church dated 1520, nave, tower with dome, 16th century murals, crucifix dated 1520.

68. (C-3) Krynica – health resort buildings from 19th and 20th century, most in the Tirol style. Health resort chapel built in 1862, octagonal.

69. (C-2) Krzeczów – 16th century church moved from Letownia.

70. (C-3) Kunkowa – 19th century Orthodox church, furnishings from 18th and 19th century.

71. (C-5) Kuzmina – Orthodox church dated 1814.

72. (C-3) Kwiaton – Orthodox church dated 1700, three-part with ice-apron tower, complete furnishings from 18th and 19th century. One of the best preserved Orthodox churches of Lemkowie ethnic group.

73. (B-2) Lanckorona - the city was granted civic rights in 1366, original urban configuration with a market square and close buildings, wooden houses from 19th century.

74. (D-3) Leluchów – Orthodox church built in 1861, preserved 18th century furnishings.

75. (C-3) Libusza - church built in 1513, tower in 1609, 16th century murals of significant artistic value. Reconstructed after 1986 fire.

76. (B-2) Lipnica Murowana - preserved medieval urban configuration. One-storied with arcades. 15th/16th century church. One of the best preserved medieval churches in Poland. Precious murals and furnishings.

77. (C-5) Liskowate – Orthodox church dated 1832, one of the classic examples of sacral architecture of Bojkowie ethnic group.

78. (C-2) Letownia – church built between 1760-65, nave, two chapels and tower. Murals and 17th century furnishings.

79. (C-5) Lodyna – 19th century Orthodox church, cluster of Bojkowie cottage houses.

80. (C-5) Lodzina – Orthodox church dated 1743 with precious 19th century furnishings, one of the oldest in Poland.

For more information please contact:

Krakowska Agency for Tourism Development
31-150 Kraków, Rynek Kleparski 4/7,
tel (+48 12) 422-71-27 and

Podkarpacka Agency for Tourism Development
35-001 Rzeszów, ul. Asnyka 6,
tel. (+48 17) 852-46-12

Route map & legend
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