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Landmarks
Bytom
Locals call it Bytom's Powązki, after Warsaw's famous historic cemetery, and the comparison fits: beneath old trees lie a mayor who ran the town for 37 years, a priest who fought for the Polish language in Upper Silesia, Bytom's best-known…
Nature
Bytom
For more than a century, the land along the Bytomka river was wrecked by a steelworks and mines; today it is crossed by walking and cycling paths. The Bytomka Valley, on the border of Bytom's Łagiewniki and Szombierki districts, is not wil…
Technical monuments
Bytom
The Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railway, known locally as the "rosbanka", is a historic line with a track gauge of 785 mm that now carries tourists on a 21 km route from Bytom via Tarnowskie Góry to Miasteczko Śląskie. The network was buil…
Nature
Bytom
Blachówka is a former open-cast dolomite mine on the boundary between Bytom-Sucha Góra and Tarnowskie Góry-Bobrowniki, worked from 1856 until the 1990s. The pits form a ravine up to 60 m deep, about 200 bats hibernate in the old adits, and…
Palaces
Bytom
All that remains of the palace locals called a castle is one neo-Gothic annex with battlements and a low mound covering the remains of the main building. While the annex was being rebuilt in 2019–2020, workers came across a crypt and the r…
Ski resorts
Bytom
In the middle of Upper Silesia, a few steps from a beech forest, skiers glide down a slope created on the site of a former dolomite mine. Sport Dolina (formerly Dolomity Sportowa Dolina) has operated since 1 December 2002 in Bytom's Sucha…
Nature
Bytom
Between the housing estates of Bytom, Chorzów and Piekary Śląskie lies a patchwork of ponds and reed beds that hosts an unusually large population of the little bittern, Poland's smallest heron. Żabie Doły ("Frog Hollows") grew out of subs…