V Summer Festival of Mysteries 2025 at Książ Castle
August 2-3, 2025
Greetings, adventure seekers and mystery explorers! This year, during the jubilee V Summer Festival of Mysteries, we will relive the action surrounding the legendary "Golden Train" – it’s been 10 years since that event. What attractions have we prepared for you? Get ready for unique meetings with the initiator of the action, who will share how it all began. We’ll invite researchers to explain where and why they searched. On the castle courtyards, there will be demonstrations of exploration equipment – how does a georadar work? What do the castle’s underground levels at -50 look like on it? Let’s find out!
Inside the castle, extraordinary exhibitions await, including the "Fortress of Codes" – unveiling the secrets of espionage, and for history enthusiasts, "Golden Train 2015 – Let’s Relive It." A surprising highlight will be an exhibition of human-sized railway lamps.
Since it was all about gold, a special addition will be the "Amber Room" exhibition (guided tours only). We’ve also planned plenty of attractions for families with children – on August 2-3, we’ll create three creative spaces where you can build your own paper trains and construct wooden structures with Castorama’s Majsterkowo. No one will leave empty-handed!
Evening activities are also on the schedule – this year, we’ve planned two editions of Ghostly Night Tours: "Haunted Train" for families with children and "Specter" for adults.
And that’s not all! The V Summer Festival of Mysteries program is bursting at the seams – more details coming soon.
Please note that ticket pre-sale is now open at www.bilety.ksiaz.walbrzych.pl.
We would like to inform you that the area of the TAURON Summer Mystery Festival, taking place on the 1st and 2nd of August 2026 (Saturday-Sunday), includes Książ Castle, terraces, and the outer bailey with a courtyard. Therefore, on the mentioned days, admission to the outer bailey will require a ticket.
| Opening hours on the following days 01-02.08.2026 r. | |
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| Opening hours of ticket offices. | 09:00 - 18:00 |
| Festival visiting hours | 09:00 - 19:00 |
| Normal (zł) | Reduced (zł) 2 | |
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Festival ticket 1 |
72 | 62 |
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Festival ticket after 4 PM1 |
59 | 59 |
| Additional Ticket (festival ticket is required) | ||
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Underground Route 3 40 min tour with a guide |
45 | 39 |
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Additional exchibitiont4 ok. 20 min tour with a polish speaking guide |
15 | 10 |
| Separate tickets (festival tickets is NOT required) | ||
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Książ by night with ghost for families" 5 tour with a polish speaking guide |
77 | 69 |
| online (zł) | ticket office (zł) 2 | |
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Książ by night with ghost for adults" 5 tour with a polish speaking guide |
79 | 84 |
Tickets can be purchased through the castle’s online ticketing system at: bilety.ksiaz.walbrzych.pl (event: "Castle Visit on August 1-2, 2026 - TAURON Summer Festival of Mysteries") or at the castle ticket offices during their opening hours. Tickets purchased via the electronic system can be presented to security in digital or paper form.
1 Festival Tickets: Valid for a single entry on either August 1 or 2, 2026, for individual castle tours with an audioguide (approx. 40 minutes), courtyards, and terraces. Festival tickets also grant access to all attractions, lectures, workshops, demonstrations, and other exhibitions included in the program on the chosen day, except for the Underground Tour (45 minutes, guided only, additional fee), Amber Room Exhibition (guided only, additional fee), and Night Tours (evening attraction, separate ticket required, festival ticket not needed). Festival tickets do not include entry to the Wałbrzych Palm House.
2 Discounted Tickets: Available for children aged 4+, school students up to 19, university students up to 24, group chaperones for schools, preschools, or youth groups (1 chaperone per 10-person group enters free), disabled persons and their caregivers (for significant disabilities), pensioners, retirees, and individuals over 65. Discounted tickets require prior presentation of a valid document verifying eligibility. Group tour guides, professional guides, and children under 4 enter free (except for organized children’s groups and special services like "Castle Through the Looking Glass," "Fairytale Książ," or Night Tours).
3 Underground Tour (approx. 40 minutes): A half-kilometer route 50 meters below the courtyard, showcasing a massive concrete hall, corridors carved in raw rock, and side bunker chambers. The tour, guided only, lasts 40 minutes at a specific time on the chosen day (as indicated on the ticket). An additional ticket is required for the Underground Tour (entry is within the festival area, so a valid festival ticket for the same day is also needed). More information about the underground is available here, and important visiting details here.
4 Addiional Exhibition (approx. 20 minutes): More information soon
5 Night Tours: A special evening event during the festival, featuring two unique editions: "Haunted Train" for families with children (entries until 8:30 PM) and "Specter" for adults (entries from 9:00 PM). Night Tours require a separate ticket (festival ticket not needed), are held only on August 2 (Saturday), and last 90 minutes. Groups enter at fixed times (every 15-30 minutes), with the entry time indicated on the ticket. A detailed description of the Night Tours is available here.
Tickets can be purchased through the castle’s online ticketing system at: bilety.ksiaz.walbrzych.pl (event: "Castle Visit on August 2-3, 2024 - Summer Festival of Mysteries") or at the castle ticket offices during their opening hours. Tickets purchased via the electronic system can be presented to security in digital or paper form.
Visiting the castle with an audioguide is available as part of festival tickets, audioguides can be picked up on the first floor of the castle (just follow the tour route).
Are you coming to the festival, but would like to learn about the history of the castle as well? With tourists in mind who wish to explore the history of Książ, we will launch a special audioguide tour where you will see the most beautiful baroque rooms, including the famous Maximilian Room, the best-preserved baroque representative room in Lower Silesia, and the exhibition "Książ from the Kitchen", showcasing the castle at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Duration of the tour: 30 minutes. We will start our adventure with this year's festival in this way. First, we will introduce you to the extraordinary world of the castle, and then we will immerse you in a passionate, artistic, and technological revolution event.
This year, the children's zone will simply delight you! Searching for lost treasures with metal detectors, Thomas and Friends for the youngest, a huge model and modeling workshops, model trains, something for young DIY enthusiasts - simply lots of fun for all ages!
Did you know that at the end of World War II, an elevator shaft was dug under the Courtyard of Honor to connect its interior with level -50? Using ground-penetrating radar, we will see before your eyes what the space under the Courtyard looks like today and what was used to fill this huge crater.
Underwater robot – specialists from Odkrywca will demonstrate the operation of an ROV, a remotely controlled underwater vehicle, which enables the study of sunken wrecks. What if the robot dived into a 40-meter-long castle well? See what objects it will discover during this underwater journey!
Model 3D – can a train enter the castle courtyard? Yes – if a large, precise model of the castle hill appears with it. See the castle in miniature and check the accuracy of the modelers' reproduction of details.
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The address of Książ Castle in Wałbrzych is ul. Piastów Śląskich 1, and the Palm House is at ul. Wrocławskiej 158.
DIRECTIONS FOR DRIVING TO KSIĄŻ CASTLE:
PARKING AT KSIĄŻ CASTLE (paid):
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The address of Książ Castle in Wałbrzych is ul. Piastów Śląskich 1, and the Wałbrzych Palm House is located at ul. Wrocławskiej 158.
KSIĄŻ CASTLE – getting there by public transit
It is also possible to take a more frequent bus, Number 12. Be sure that its final stop (displayed on the front of the bus) is at “Wrocławska – Szczawienko”. From this stop, it is a 15-20 minute walk to the castle. Those arriving in Wałbrzych by train may get Bus 12 at the stop across from the Wałbrzych Miasto train station (at the “Armii Krajowej – Dworzec Miasto” stop) as well as on ul. Wrocławska, the main road near the Wałbrzych Szczawienko train station, at the „Wrocławska – Stacyjna” stop. http://rozklad.zdkium.walbrzych.pl/
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We are pleased to announce a competition for the rental of space with the exclusive right to sell food and beer during the Fourth Lower Silesia Festival of Mystery. The festival takes place this year on 13 and 14 August, 2016.
We warmly invite you to get to the know the conditions of this year’s competition (details may be found along with the Warunkami składania ofert - załącznik 1 b/the Conditions of Submitting Service Officers – Attachment 1b to the service offer form/, as well as the Regulamien uczestnictwa - załącznik 4 b/ The Regulations for participants, attachment 4b.).
We ask that the kart zgłoszeń (service offer form) be sent to the following address: festiwal@ksiaz.walbrzych.pl indicating the Fourth Lower Silesia Festival of Mystery, by 21 June, 2016 at 12 noon.
