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Gliwice
The Gliwice Radio Station (pronounced "glee-VEE-tseh") is where World War II was staged before it began. On the evening of August 31, 1939, German SS men disguised as Polish insurgents seized the station and broadcast a fake "Polish attack…
Museums
Gliwice
Funzeum – Children's Imagination Centre fills 4,000 m² in the Europa Centralna shopping centre in Gliwice. Despite the name, nobody looks at anything through glass here – the motto translates as "You don't tour it. You do it." Children bui…
Museums
Gliwice
Kolejkowo Gliwice (roughly "ko-lay-KO-vo") is a huge model railway and miniature world inside the Europa Centralna shopping mall in Gliwice, in Poland's Upper Silesia region. Trains wind past tiny versions of real Silesian landmarks, thous…
Gardens
Gliwice
The Gliwice Palm House (Palmiarnia Miejska, roughly "pahl-MYAR-nya") is a large botanical glasshouse in Chopin Park in the center of Gliwice, a city in Poland's Upper Silesian industrial region. Its five pavilions hold palms brought here i…
Gardens
Gliwice
Right in the centre of Gliwice, between Sienkiewicza street and the city's east–west expressway, lies a fenced park with cast-iron lions, an oak more than two hundred years old and a palm house in the middle. Fryderyk Chopin Park was creat…
Museums
Gliwice
Despite its name, Piast Castle was never a ducal residence. The building on Pod Murami Street in Gliwice grew out of two medieval town-wall towers, served for centuries as an arsenal, prison and farm, and today houses a branch of the Gliwi…