Attractions in the region
Biking
All of the attractions may be visited by simple renting out a bike from our Hotel. More information on bicycle paths awaits our guests within the reception, our personnel will gladly help you to plan your trip.
Our Hotel constitutes a great headquarters for excursions thus offering the chance to visit the number of available attractions. The most important locations of Polish tourism are as little as an hour of drive away!
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum
The proof of human cruelness, the magnitude of hatred of the Nazis as well as the huge suffering of millions of people. Every person should at least once visit the death camp in Oświęcim and Brzezinka.
All of the visiting Guests are offered the possibility to visit the premises of the former camps and the majority of former objects of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz-II Birkenau camps.
Wadowice – The family house of John Paul II
The exhibition of the Family House of John Paul II is to illustrate and commemorate His life and his activity on the territory of Poland, until the moment he left it for good when he was chosen the bishop of Rome.
Within the room where Karol Wojtyła was born and lived until 1938 as well as within the adjacent kitchen those belongings and piece of furniture have been gathered which were preserved from his Wadowice home as of his move to Cracow.
Energylandia
ENERGYLANDIA is the largest Amusement Park in Poland, offering several dozen attractions, located on an area of 35 hectares, intended for all age groups, both children, adolescents and adults.
The castle and the bison pen in Pszczyna
Two floor renaissance castle with cloisters, constructed upon the plan of irregular rectangular shape has been known from the descriptions maintained within duke’s archive as well as the landscape maintained upon the famous Andreas Hidenberg map from 1636. The Gate of the Chosen constructed by Consilio Milius in 1687, which housed the headquarters of castle guard remains the last remnant of the aforementioned structure.
Moving further on just a few hundred metres away from Pszczyna Old Town do not be surprised if you see… a bison, within the Bison Exhibit Pen, which has been established upon the premises of a monumental park, within its section popularly referred to as “Animal Pen”. Bisons may be admired from the preview platform, the access to which is possible for the disabled thanks to the installed lift.
Bison feeding times: 10.00, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00.
The Park of Miniatures in Inwałd
The Park of Miniatures is the only location which offers you the possibility to travel all around the world in one day. All you need is just a few minutes to cross the borders. The whole world has been fitted into the total surface area of 45.000 m2. Cunning alleys will lead You from state to state and their most precious monuments.
The Park of Miniatures houses over 50 models of the most famous architectonic wonders of the world, amongst others: the Acropolis, the Coliseum, Leaning Tower of Pisa, St. Peter’s Basilica the Liberty Statue, the Chinese Wall, the Eiffel Tower, Triumphal arch, Big Ben, the Sphinx, the White House.
Zatorland
Dinolandia Park located between Wadowice and Andrychów, was opened in 2009. The picturesque landscapes of Dinolandia located upon 45 000 square metres offers the possibility to admire the unique set of various sized dinosaur, pterosaurus, ichthyosaurus as well as other prehistoric creatures.
Our largest exhibit is constituted by the figure of mamenchisaurus, the total size of which amounts to as much as 22 metres.
Salt Mine Wieliczka
World famous Salt Mine in Wieliczka is just one hour drive from Hotel Galicja!
