Silesia, Silesian Voivodeship
Tuesday, 03 November 2026 PL / EN
Home Discover Silesia What to see

What to see

Articles
18 articles
Aleja Najświętszej Maryi Panny: 1.5 km, 44 metres wide and a changing name Co warto zobaczyć
Aleja Najświętszej Maryi Panny: 1.5 km, 44 metres wide and a changing name
Residents of Częstochowa call it simply Aleje, the Avenues. A street about 1.5 km long and 44 m wide joined Old and New Częstochowa, and over its history it changed both its name and its trees. The article leads from square to square all the way to Jasna Góra.
Read more →
Będzin beyond the castle: the underground, the walls, the water tower in Grodziec and the Zagłębie Museum Co warto zobaczyć
Będzin beyond the castle: the underground, the walls, the water tower in Grodziec and the Zagłębie Museum
Beyond the castle, Będzin has a shelter hewn into Castle Hill, medieval walls, a riveted steel water tower in Grodziec and a museum spread across several addresses. An overview of these places shows how to combine them into a walk.
Read more →
Museums of Vehicles, Motorcycles and Machines: From the Fiat 126p to Tanks Co warto zobaczyć
Museums of Vehicles, Motorcycles and Machines: From the Fiat 126p to Tanks
From the Maluch of Bielsko-Biała, through prewar motorcycles, to tanks, steam locomotives and typewriters: an overview of Silesian technology museums, often private and community-run.
Read more →
Palaces around Tarnowskie Góry and Lubliniec: Rybna, Kamieniec, Czekanów, Patoka, Czarny Las Co warto zobaczyć
Palaces around Tarnowskie Góry and Lubliniec: Rybna, Kamieniec, Czekanów, Patoka, Czarny Las
Residences of the Warkocz, Strachwitz, Hohenlohe and Donnersmarck families scattered across the Tarnowskie Góry and Lubliniec lands. An overview of palaces that can be visited and of those that can only be viewed from the outside.
Read more →
Palaces of magnates and industrialists: residences built by coal, zinc and land Co warto zobaczyć
Palaces of magnates and industrialists: residences built by coal, zinc and land
Palaces of manufacturers from Sosnowiec and Katowice, aristocratic seats, princely hunting lodges and places where only a park remains. An overview of Silesian residences and of what they are today: museums, offices, courts or ruins.
Read more →
Park w Reptach: from the Henckel game park to an English landscape park Co warto zobaczyć
Park w Reptach: from the Henckel game park to an English landscape park
Park w Reptach began in the 1840s as a game park of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family and in 1893-1898 became an English park. The palace is gone, but the beech woods and the meadows by the Drama remain.
Read more →
Nature Reserves and Green Enclaves in GZM Cities: Wildlife in the Middle of a Conurbation Co warto zobaczyć
Nature Reserves and Green Enclaves in GZM Cities: Wildlife in the Middle of a Conurbation
Beech woods, alder-ash riverside forests, peat bogs and ponds left by old workings remain between Upper Silesian cities. Twelve places in Katowice, Bytom, Gliwice, Sosnowiec, Jaworzno and Chorzów, from the Segiet reserve to the Valley of Three Ponds.
Read more →
Castle Hill in Cieszyn: From Settlement Before Our Era to the Rotunda of St Nicholas Co warto zobaczyć
Castle Hill in Cieszyn: From Settlement Before Our Era to the Rotunda of St Nicholas
Cieszyn began on a small hill above the Olza. There stands the Romanesque Rotunda of St Nicholas, whose age researchers date variously, from the 11th to the 13th century, as well as the Gothic Piast Tower and a Habsburg palace.
Read more →
Open-air museums and farmsteads of Silesia: cottages, smoke houses and village life outdoors Co warto zobaczyć
Open-air museums and farmsteads of Silesia: cottages, smoke houses and village life outdoors
From the Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów to rooms in Beskid hamlets: where in Silesia to see old cottages, chimneyless smoke stoves, a weaver's workshop and farmsteads where the village still works.
Read more →
Skoczów: Jonah on the market square, the fire of 1756 and the brick-built town Co warto zobaczyć
Skoczów: Jonah on the market square, the fire of 1756 and the brick-built town
The market square in Skoczów, with the figure of Jonah called Triton and a town hall from the end of the 18th century, is the result of rebuilding after fires. The most dangerous broke out on 7 May 1756 and destroyed more than a hundred houses.
Read more →
Tychy: a town planned in the 1950s and a brewery from 1629 Co warto zobaczyć
Tychy: a town planned in the 1950s and a brewery from 1629
Tychy has two birth certificates: the brewery of the princes of Pszczyna from 1629 and a town planned from 1950 as a new settlement for the Upper Silesian Industrial District. We show how both stories can be seen today in one town.
Read more →
Viewing towers and platforms in Silesia: where to climb to see the region Co warto zobaczyć
Viewing towers and platforms in Silesia: where to climb to see the region
From the tower by the cable car on Szyndzielnia, through wooden platforms above Lake Czerniańskie, to the metal towers of the Racibórz Basin. A survey of viewpoints in the Silesian Voivodeship that have their own entries on the portal.
Read more →

What's on in Silesia in the coming days

See the event calendar →
Lalka
Today 11:00
Kino
Lalka
Kino Janosik, Żywiec
from 18 PLN
Klara i Słońce
Today 12:00
Kino
Klara i Słońce
Kino Światowid (Sala Ukryte)
from 16 PLN
Syrenka Picassa
Today 12:45
Kino
Syrenka Picassa
Kino Kosmos - NOSTROMO
from 16 PLN
Jak żyć, żeby nie zwariować
Today 13:20
Kino
Jak żyć, żeby nie zwariować
Kino Roma, Zabrze
from 17 PLN