Taking part in a canoeing rally on the Nida River, that is meandering through the picturesque and quiet Ponidzie Region, is one of the ways to discover recesses of the Region.

• Michałów, Unnamed Road

The nature reserve named after Jan Czarnocki was created in 1952 in the area of over 5500 square meters. It is the first Polish geological reserve. It is located in the north-western part of Kielce near Ślichowice district.

• Kielce
• +48 41 367 66 54

The Świętokrzyski National Park was established in 1950 and it encompasses: the highest range of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains- Łysogóry with the summits of Łysica (612 m above sea level), Agata (608 m above sea level) and Łysa Góra (595 m above sea level), the eastern part of Klonowskie Range and a part of Pokrzywiańskie Range (together with Chełmowa Góra).

• Świętokrzyski Park Narodowy
• +48 41 311 51 06

The Świętokrzyski region is a real geological trove, or an open book from which we can learn a lot about the history of our planet. The Świętokrzyskie Mountains occupy the central part of the region; although not the highest and not the biggest in Poland, they enchant visitors with the diversity of their geological structure.

• Nowa Słupia, Święty Krzyż 1
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The quarry in Zachełm became famous, when in 2010, the prestige “Nature” magazine published an article about a sensational paleontological discovery. Here, in the surface of a shoal of dolomites, in the south-eastern part of the quarry, an accumulation of fossil footprints in the form of paths imprinted in the limestone silt were found.

• Umer, Droga Wojewódzka 750 99
• +48 41 300 13 22

Nature has for ages created its underground complex of breathtaking tunnels and chambers decorated with hundreds of stalagmites, stalactites, pillars and pisoids of various shapes and forms.

• Dobrzączka
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It"s the most recently established landscape park (51,000 acres) located between Łośna and Bobrza Rivers in the south-western part of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. o wonder the Chęciński-Kielecki Landscape Park is known as the paradise for geologists.

• Szewce, Żwirowa 3

The park encloses the Orłowińskie, Ociesęckie and Cisowskie ranges as well as the Bardziańskie Hills, occupying the total area of 51 thousand acres. The nature is its greatest attraction, especially its vegetation mantle and forests; naturalists found here the majority of lowland habitats, from dry coniferous forest to alder carr.

• Mójcza, Droga Wojewódzka 764

The park encloses the southern part of the Wodzisław Hummock and stretches over an area of 16,000 acres. Its territory is mostly covered by forests growing on the slopes of loessic elevations divided by gorges, ravines and canyons.

• Chwałowice, Unnamed Road

The park encompasses the central and lower part of the Nida River Valley, Solecka Basin, and the north-western part of the Pińczów Hummock of the total area of 57,000 acres. Noteworthy is the gypsum series featuring a unique complex of gypsum karst phenomena and formations.

• Michałów, Unnamed Road