Historic sites
ruin of a watchtower from the late 14th century on a rock, filling a gap in the system of Jura castles
a 150-metre cave in a gorge, with a large entrance and a younger part with dripstone formations
Mountains
cramped shelter under Kosia Skała in the forest, 200 m east of the Strażnica rock
Solo in Ryczów: the ruins of a medieval watchtower, a cave in the Ruskie Góry Gorge and a rock shelter under Kosia Rock. Jura corners for a lone walk.
Ryczów lies in the Ogrodzieniec municipality, on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. All three places are tied to rock, limestone and woodland.
The ruin of a defensive structure stands on a rock called Strażnica: the Ryczów Watchtower. It was probably built in the late fourteenth century, and what survives is scraps of wall and an embankment around one and a half metres tall. The text Biała Dama, Czarny Pies i skarby tells of the castles of the Jura.
The cave in Straszykowa Góra measures about one hundred and fifty metres in the Ruskie Góry Gorge and contains dripstone discovered in 1984. It is privately owned, so treat it as a local curiosity, not a place to enter. A tiny cave shelter is the Upper Shelter in Kosia Góra: a low chamber and a narrow passage under the overhang of Kosia Rock. Other suggestions for solo travellers are collected under solo, and the village has its page: Ryczów.
No, it is a ruin. Fragments of walls and an embankment remain.
Not freely. The cave belongs to a private owner, so find out beforehand whether a visit is allowed.
