Szczawnica is a resort located at the foot of the Pieniny and Beskid S1decki Mountains. It is very well known for its unique microclimate, fresh air and the exceptional qualities of the flora and the landscape. It is primarily known for its healing mineral waters.
Walking around Szczawnica you can admire numerous buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries, reminiscent in style of typical spa architecture with clear Swiss influences.

In the neighbourhood you can also find typical highlander buildings. The most important local historic places include the Chapel of Our Lady of Czestochowa from the 19th century in the Lower Park (once the head of the Wanda spring) and the Chapel of Our Lady the Queen of Heaven designed by Józef Szalay in the Upper Park. In the main square of the town there is a fountain and the statue of Dr. Dietl, a well known balneologist and a president of Kraków.

Nearby there is the neo-gothic St. Adalbert's Church dating from 1892 designed by Stanislaw Eliasz Radzikowski. In the neighbouring Jaworki and Szlachtowa you can admire old Lemko orthodox churches (Lemkos are eastern Slavonic people from the northern Carpathian Mountains).

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The interweaving of the highlander tradition and the spa tradition is presented in the permanent ethnographic and historic exhibition in the Pieniny Mountains Museum. The highlander folklore has its own annual holiday; 'Pieniny Summer' organised in July. The Magdalena mineral water pump room is the place where cyclical exhibitions of local artists' painting, graphics, sculpture and handicraft take place. In the summer the concert stage in the Upper Park reverberates with chamber music concerts.