Jeleśnia - Local Tour

Jeleśnia is a large highland village in the heart of the Żywiec Beskids, spread out at the fork of the Sopotnia and Koszarawa rivers. Its pride is a unique 18th-century wooden inn, the best place to get to know the highland traditions that are still alive here. Other notable sights are the Baroque church of St Adalbert and the two-hundred-year-old organist's house, home to the Regional Chamber of Creative Work.

We prepared a walk around the village centre that starts at the monument to the American airmen of the “Liberator” bomber, which made an emergency landing in Jeleśnia in 1944. The guide then leads you to the inn, the market square, the church and the regional chamber, telling stories of the Vlachs, outlaws and the famous healer “Ślopek”.