Lower Silesia, Poland · Europe
Szczytna works well as a base: 10 minutes from Duszniki-Zdrój, 11km from Road of a Hundred Bends.
Szczytna is in Lower Silesia, Poland, with about 5,200 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Duszniki-Zdrój, about 4 km away.
Szczytna [ˈʂt͡ʂɨtna] (German: Rückers) is a town in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Szczytna, close to the Czech border As at 2019, the town has a population of 5,141.
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Within an hour or so of Szczytna: Road of a Hundred Bends (11 km), Szczeliniec Wielki (11 km), Błędne Skały (13 km), Skull Chapel, Czermna (15 km).
The nearest famous roads are Road of a Hundred Bends and Cervenohorske Sedlo.
Szczytna is in Lower Silesia, Poland, about 4 km from Duszniki-Zdrój.
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8 notable places within an hour's drive.
famous road
Route 387 between Radkow and Kudowa-Zdroj corkscrews through the surreal rock labyrinths of the Table Mountains, packing dozens of hairpins into a forested drive beloved by Polish motorists.
11 km · about 20 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The highest summit of the Table Mountains (919 m): a sandstone plateau of eroded rock labyrinths, chasms and terraces reached by a historic stone stairway from Karłów, with views into Czechia on clear days.
11 km · about 20 min drive
photogenic
A rock labyrinth at 853 m in the Table Mountains where a marked trail squeezes between mushroom-shaped sandstone blocks and metre-wide corridors: a filming location for The Chronicles of Narnia. Car access via a timed toll road from Karłów.
13 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A small Baroque chapel (1776–1784) in Kudowa-Zdrój whose walls and ceiling are lined with 3,000 human skulls and bones, with 21,000 more in the crypt below: Poland's only ossuary of its kind.
15 km · about 30 min drive
museum
The largest visitable complex of Nazi Germany's Project Riese: 3.1 km of tunnels bored into the Owl Mountains in 1943–45 for a purpose still debated. Partly flooded sections are toured by boat.
29 km · about 35 min drive
natural wonder
A mesmerizing labyrinth of towering sandstone rock formations sculpted by millions of years of erosion into surreal shapes.
32 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
Europe's largest timber-framed church, raised in 1656–57 by Silesian Lutherans who were forbidden stone, nails or a tower: the wattle-and-daub interior holds 7,500 people under painted galleries. UNESCO-listed.
48 km · about 55 min drive
castle
Lower Silesia's largest castle, perched dramatically on a rock above a gorge, riddled with WWII tunnels.
49 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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