On the way

What to see on the way from Kraków to Rzeszów

It is about 168 km from Kraków to Rzeszów, roughly 2 h 4 min of driving without breaks.

Along the way we suggest 8 stops worth leaving the road for: heritage, nature and curiosities. A typical detour is 17 minutes: the extra time to drive to a stop and back to the route.

Stops are listed in driving order, each with the time it adds and its distance from the start.

  • 168 km
  • 2 h 4 min
  • 8 stops
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Stops on the way

  1. Stop 1

    +15 min detour 24 km from the start Show on map

    Church of St Adalbert Bishop Martyr in Staniątki

    Photo: Church of St Adalbert Bishop Martyr in Staniątki
    Zygmunt Put CC BY-SA 4.0

    A Roman Catholic church in Staniątki (Niepołomice Commune), part of the Benedictine nuns' Abbey of St Adalbert, a Monument of History (Pomnik historii).

    • History and culture

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  2. Stop 2

    +25 min detour 37 km from the start Show on map

    Church of St Anthony of Padua in Cikowice

    Photo: Church of St Anthony of Padua in Cikowice
    Macka89 CC BY 3.0

    A Roman Catholic parish church in Cikowice (Bochnia Commune, Lesser Poland Voivodeship), built between 1914 and 1918 and listed in the heritage register.

    • History and culture

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  3. Stop 3

    +26 min detour 54 km from the start Show on map

    Goetz Palace in Brzesko

    Photo: Goetz Palace in Brzesko
    Daniel Nalepka CC BY-SA 4.0

    A Neo-Baroque palace from 1898 in Brzesko (Lesser Poland Voivodeship), listed in the heritage register.

    • History and culture

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  4. Stop 4

    +14 min detour 76 km from the start Show on map

    War Cemetery No. 214 in Gosławice

    Photo: War Cemetery No. 214 in Gosławice
    Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202 CC BY-SA 4.0

    A World War I war cemetery in the village of Gosławice (Wierzchosławice Commune, Tarnów County), listed in the register of immovable monuments of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

    • History and culture

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  5. Stop 5

    +16 min detour 90 km from the start Show on map

    War Cemetery No. 207 in Lisia Góra

    Photo: War Cemetery No. 207 in Lisia Góra
    DentArt CC BY-SA 4.0

    A World War I military cemetery from 1915 within the parish cemetery in Lisia Góra (Tarnów County), where Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian soldiers are buried.

    • History and culture

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  6. Stop 6

    +23 min detour 109 km from the start Show on map

    War Cemetery No. 241 – Róża

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    An Austrian World War I cemetery in Czarna Commune (Dębica County), where 39 Austro-Hungarian and 21 Russian soldiers are buried.

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  7. Stop 7

    +16 min detour 125 km from the start Show on map

    Church of St Nicholas in Lubzina

    Photo: Church of St Nicholas in Lubzina
    Jacek Kłusek CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

    A Roman Catholic church in Lubzina (Ropczyce Commune, Ropczyce-Sędziszów County), designed by Teodor Talowski and listed in the Polish heritage register.

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  8. Stop 8

    +17 min detour 143 km from the start Show on map

    Church of St Stanislaus the Bishop in Czarna Sędziszowska

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    A Roman Catholic church in Czarna Sędziszowska (Sędziszów Małopolski Commune, Ropczyce-Sędziszów County), listed in the register of immovable monuments.

    • History and culture

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Driving the other way?

Driving from Rzeszów to Kraków, you reach the same stops in reverse order – read the list from the bottom.

Plan the route from Rzeszów to Kraków

How stops are chosen: the planner routes the drive, checks places up to 5 km from the road and routes the real detour to each; it keeps those that add at most 30 minutes. Data: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata, Wikipedia, the NID heritage register (CC BY 4.0), Opencaching.PL (CC BY-SA 3.0 PL), photos from Wikimedia Commons with their author and licence.