Wisła is a holiday and tourist destination in the Silesian Beskids, as well as a local ski resort. It is situated between the massifs of Czantoria Wielka and Barania Góra, near the sources of the Vistula River, and is a perfect place for active recreation.
The town consists of several separate housing estates, which are quite distant from each other. The strict center developed from the 19th century as a holiday and summer resort, attracting visitors from Krakow and Warsaw, including writers and members of the bohemian bohemian. Bogumił Hoff was a great popularizer of the recreational properties of the town. Thanks to him, several hiking trails were marked out in the area and the first holiday homes and guesthouses were built.
The most important attractions of the Vistula are its picturesque, mountainous location and numerous possibilities for hiking and cycling. On the west side of the city, there is the Wielka Czantoria range, and in the east, the slopes of Barania Góra with a lookout tower on Barania Góra. Both peaks are excellent viewpoints, and there are many other tops and valleys to visit in the area.
The Vistula took its name from the largest Polish river flowing out near Barania Góra. In the initial section of the Biała Wisełka, you can see the scenic waterfalls called the Rodła Cascades. Biała and Czarna Wisełka merge into one river in the artificial Czerniańskie Lake. The Monument to the Vistula Springs can be seen in Kopczyński Park.
Vistula's monuments and museums are concentrated mainly, but not only, in its center. There is a historic building of the Beskidzki Museum. A. Podżorski with a small open-air museum of highlander architecture. The wooden Habsburg Hunting Palace, transferred from Przysłop pod Barania Góra, is an extremely picturesque building, and Willa Ochorowiczówka houses the Museum of Magic Realism. In Wisła Głębce you can visit the Museum of the Department of Pharmacy History. An interesting place is the Residence of the President of the Republic of Poland in Wisła Czarne from the interwar period.
One of the most important figures associated with the Vistula is the ski jumper Adam Małysz. There is a small Adam Małysz Sports Trophy Gallery here, and an Alley of Sports Stars was created on the promenade. On the modern ski jump. Adam Małysz, in Wisła Malinka, the World Cup competitions are held every year. There are also ski lifts and ski slopes open in winter throughout the town.
