Things to do in Chorzów
Chorzów lies in the heart of Upper Silesia, and its greatest treasure is Silesia Park — one of Europe's largest urban parks, home to the Legendia amusement park, the Silesian Stadium and the park railway. Add industrial heritage and the Municipal Museum: a city with an industrial soul and green lungs.
Map of attractions in Chorzów
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Technical monuments
Silesian Stadium in Chorzów
Chorzów
The attendance record at the Silesian Stadium was not set by football but by speedway: on 2 September 1973 some 130,000 people turned up for the Individual Speedway World Championship. Today's arena in Chorzów's Silesian Park is smaller an…
60–150 min
Hidden gemMuseums
Silesian Planetarium in Chorzów
Chorzów
On the highest hill of the Silesian Park, Poland's largest and oldest planetarium has stood since 1955. The Silesian Planetarium has a dome 23 m across, onto which a new projector casts some 100 million stars, and after a PLN 136 million r…
Hidden gemAmusement parks
Legendia – Silesian Amusement Park
Chorzów
In 1970 the Silesian Amusement Park welcomed 2 million visitors — a record that says a lot about what this funfair meant to Upper Silesia. Opened in 1959 in Silesian Park in Chorzów, it is the oldest amusement park in Poland. Since 2017 it…
Hidden gemZoos
Silesian Zoological Garden (Chorzów Zoo)
Chorzów
In the 1950s one of Poland's largest zoos grew up on former mining wasteland between Chorzów and Katowice. The Silesian Zoological Garden covers about 47.5 ha of the Silesian Park, and for half a century its trademark has been a rocky holl…
Hidden gemMuseums
Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów
Chorzów
In the middle of Poland's most industrialised region, a few minutes from the Silesian Stadium, stand log cottages from Istebna, octagonal barns from Kobiór, windmills and a wooden church from 1791. The Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in C…
Technical monuments
Elka Cableway
Chorzów
The Elka Cable Car (Kolej Linowa "Elka") in Chorzów is a gondola-and-chairlift line gliding over Silesian Park, one of Europe's largest urban parks, in the heart of the Katowice metropolitan area. It links Silesian Stadium, the Legendia am…
Technical monuments
Museum of Metallurgy in Chorzów
Chorzów
Until 1934 Chorzów was called Królewska Huta – Royal Ironworks – after the plant around which the town grew. The hall of that ironworks' former power station now houses the Museum of Metallurgy, the first museum in Poland devoted entirely…
60–90 min
Amusement parks
Silesia Rope Park in Chorzów
Chorzów
On the hardest route of the Silesia Rope Park, the obstacles hang as high as 10.5 m above the ground, and the course is considered one of the most demanding in Poland. The park lies within the Silesian Park in Chorzów, at ul. Dojazdowa 1 o…
Gardens
Silesian Park in Chorzów
Chorzów
Where trees grow today, in 1950 there were spoil heaps, illegal mine shafts and marshland. Silesian Park (Park Śląski) in Chorzów – until 2012 called the Jerzy Ziętek Provincial Park of Culture and Recreation – covers 535 hectares and is o…
Free entry
Nature
Uroczysko Buczyna and the Fused Pines, Chorzów
Chorzów
A few minutes from the A4 motorway, where Chorzów, Katowice and Ruda Śląska meet, grows a forest that looks as if Upper Silesia's industry passed it by. Uroczysko Buczyna is 65 hectares of old beech woodland with hundreds of mighty trees,…
Free entry