See the Polish versionComprehensive guide service and translation assistance while sightseeing. For motorists with their own transport, I recommend day trips around Katowice and the neighbouring cities of the Upper Silesia-Zagłębie Metropolis, combined with visiting the most interesting sites of the Industrial Monuments Route, castles and palaces of the Upper Silesian nobility or the green areas of Silesia and Lesser Poland
Route examples (other options available on request):
- The Stars of the Industrial Monuments Route – 6-8 hours – visiting the most interesting sites called “anchor points of the Trail” and cities where they are located:
– Zabrze – Guido Coal Mine with the deepest located tourist route (level 170 m and 320 m underground) or the Queen Louise Adit with an underground water route through the excavations of the 19th century Key Hereditary Adit (900 m on foot, 1100 m by boats)
– Tarnowskie Góry – The City of Miners – Historic Silver Mine or the Black Trout Adit – technical monuments on the UNESCO National Heritage List
– Tychy – a city famous for beer (and much more) – Tychy Brewery Museum – the Museum of Tyskie Browary Książęce, officially established in 1629
– Żywiec – a town ruled by the Habsburg family – Żywiec Brewery Museum founded in 1856
- Castles and palaces of the Upper Silesian nobility – 6-8 hours – thematic tours in the footsteps of the Hochbergs (Pszczyna, Promnice), the Ballestrems (Gliwice, Pławniowice), the Tiele-Wincklers (Katowice, Bytom-Miechowice), the Donnersmarcks (Zabrze, Nakło, Świerklaniec), the Princes of Ratibor (Rudy Raciborskie, Racibórz)
- Secrets of castles and strongholds on the Trail of the Eagles’ Nests – 6-8 hours – trips to the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland combined with walks and sightseeing of picturesque ruins and castles protecting the borders of the Republic of Poland in the 14th century – Olsztyn, Złoty Potok, Ostrężnik, Mirów and Bobolice, Ogrodzieniec , Pilica, Smoleń etc.
- Ojcow National Park – 6-8 hours – the castles in Ojcow and Pieskowa Skala, “On the Water” Chapel, nature exhibition, caves and hiking trails