Tripto Guide
Things to do in Gliwice
6 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.
Technical monuments
Gliwice Radio Tower
Gliwice
**111.1 m** tall, built of larch beams and joined with more than **16,000 brass screws** — not a single steel nail — the Gliwice radio tower, assembled in just **five months in 1935**, remains the tallest all-wood structure in Europe. What…
Museums
Funzeum in Gliwice
Gliwice
Funzeum in Gliwice is the interactive Centre of Children’s Imagination in the Europa Centralna shopping centre at 315 Pszczyńska Street. It is designed for experiencing colour, light and sound rather than viewing traditional exhibits behin…
Museums
Kolejkowo Gliwice
Gliwice
**Kolejkowo Gliwice** is a large, highly detailed railway world in miniature, located in the Europa Centralna shopping centre at 315 Pszczyńska Street. The 1:25-scale layout covers about 900 m² and includes 460 m of track, 12 trains and hu…
Gardens
Palm House in Gliwice
Gliwice
At 6 Fredry Street, in the Fryderyk Chopin Park in central Gliwice, runs the Municipal Palm House — a glazed botanical garden with over **5,500 plants** and aquariums. The first greenhouses appeared here as early as **1880** as a private o…
Amusement parks
Park of a Million Lights in Zabrze
Gliwice
In winter, the grounds of the **Leśne Kąpielisko MOSiR** forest swimming area at Srebrna 10 street in Zabrze turn into the **Park of a Million Lights** — a festive land of illuminations spread over **220,000 m²**. The leading theme is the…
Technical monuments
Maciej Shaft in Zabrze
Gliwice
The Maciej Shaft in Zabrze's Maciejów district is a fully preserved complex of the former Concordia mine (later Pstrowski), now open to visitors as a site on the Industrial Monuments Route. Early twentieth-century buildings, the winding to…