Dydiowa is one of those hauntingly beautiful ghost villages in the Bieszczady Mountains that stopped existing mid-20th century — split by the Polish-Ukrainian border, depopulated, and slowly swallowed by the forest. If you love hiking with a sense of history and quiet wilderness, this place will stay with you long after you leave.

The former village sat along the San River, nestled between forested ridges with evocative folk names: 'Kychera', 'Muchne', 'Chereshnia', 'Zeleny Lis'. The terrain is gentle near the valley but rises into dense woodland on all sides. In spring, wildflowers reclaim the old meadows; in autumn, the beeches and firs blaze with colour. Throughout the year a deep, almost sacred silence hangs over the land. What remains today are the ruins of a manor blown up in 1960, a few fragments of gravestones on a destroyed cemetery, two roadside crosses, and an information board marking the spot where the Greek Catholic church once stood before being demolished by Soviet border guards in 1956–1958.

• Lutowiska (village parking) — field road along the San river, approx. 1–1.5 h, easy to moderate difficulty
• Stuposiany — alternative approach from the west through forest

• Polish part of Dydiowa lies in Lutowiska commune, Bieszczady County — partly within or adjacent to Bieszczady National Park
• An information board marks the former church site
• No tourist infrastructure on site — bring your own food and water

The great Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko visited Dydiowa in the 1880s, staying with the local priest — a scholar of Boyk folk culture — and was even arrested here in 1890, adding a remarkable literary footnote to this already layered place.