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Bielsko-Biała
Szyndzielnia takes its name from the local dialect word szyndzioł, meaning a wooden roof shingle: villagers from Kamienica and Olszówka made shingles for the town of Bielsko from timber felled on its slopes. Today you ride up the mountain…
Mountains & peaks
Bielsko-Biała
In the mid-20th century Europe's longest natural toboggan run – 2,200 metres with 30 bends – wound down the slopes of this mountain. Kozia Góra (683 m), which locals in Bielsko-Biała simply call Stefanka, is a wooded peak within the city l…
Churches & monasteries
Bielsko-Biała
The tower of St Nicholas Cathedral is 61 m tall and has defined the skyline of Bielsko-Biała's Old Town for more than a century. The church on St Nicholas Square, just below the former ducal castle, has Gothic roots going back to 1443, yet…
Technical monuments
Bielsko-Biała
Yellow glass-sided gondolas gliding over the forest from the Olszówka district have been a familiar sight in Bielsko-Biała for generations. The Szyndzielnia cable car opened on 21 December 1953 as Poland's first gondola lift and the first…
Hiking & tourist trails
Bielsko-Biała
The Small Beskids Trail (Mały Szlak Beskidzki) is 137 kilometres of red waymarks from Straconka in Bielsko-Biała to Luboń Wielki in the Island Beskids. Once known as the Northern Trail, it is the fourth-longest trail in the Polish Carpathi…
Old towns & squares
Bielsko-Biała
The Market Square in Bielsko-Biała (roughly "BYEL-skoh BYAH-wah") is the heart of the city's Old Town, a sloping 80 × 60 m square on a hilltop where the medieval town of Bielsko was founded in the early 14th century. Lined with restored 18…
Castles
Bielsko-Biała
Above Bolesław Chrobry Square, on the edge of the Old Town, stands the oldest and largest historic building in Bielsko-Biała. From a distance it looks like a 19th-century palace with a crenellated tower, but its walls hide a medieval borde…