Things to do in Katowice

Market Square in Katowice

Katowice

The Market Square is the historic heart of Katowice and the point where the city's most important streets converge: Warszawska, 3 Maja, Aleja Wojciecha Korfantego and św. Jana among them. For decades the vast square served cars first and f…

Basilica in Katowice Panewniki

Katowice

The Basilica of Saint Louis IX, King, and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Katowice-Panewniki is an important monument of the Franciscan monastery complex. The Neo-Romanesque church was built in 1906–1907 and consecrated in 190…

Wikimedia category

Katowice

Wikimedia category in Katowice is an interesting stop connected with the area’s history, culture or landscape. Include it in a sightseeing plan and combine it with other nearby places. Check current opening hours and access details before…

Mr. Kleks's Tale in Katowice

Katowice

120–180 min

## Mr Kleks’s Tale in Katowice Mr Kleks’s Tale is an interactive centre for play and learning at 23 Porcelanowa Street in Katowice, inside the former Porcelain Factory complex. The visit is self-guided, with families moving through themed…

Katowice Railway Station

Katowice

Free entry

Katowice station is the most important railway station in the Upper Silesian Industrial Region and one of the busiest rail hubs in Poland. It stands on Wilhelm Szewczyk Square, a few steps from 3 Maja Street — the city's main pedestrian pr…

Szyb Wilson Gallery in Katowice

Katowice

Free entry

The Szyb Wilson Gallery is at 1 Oswobodzenia Street in Katowice, on the edge of Janów, Nikiszowiec and Szopienice. It occupies historic buildings of the former “Wieczorek” mine shaft, whose history dates back to 1826. According to the venu…

Jarmark na Nikiszu Christmas Fair

Katowice

The December fair on **Plac Wyzwolenia** in Katowice's Nikiszowiec district combines Christmas stalls with the atmosphere of a listed workers' housing estate. In 2024 the fair was held for the **17th time**, which means the tradition goes…

Katowice Christmas Market

Katowice

The Katowice Christmas market stretches along **the Market Square, between the Skarbek building and the Silesian Theatre**, and runs from the second half of November until early January — in the 2025/2026 season from **21 November to 6 Jan…

St. Michael the Archangel’s Church in Katowice

Katowice

On Wzgórze Beaty hill in the Tadeusz Kościuszko Park stands the oldest surviving building in Katowice — the wooden St. Michael the Archangel’s Church, probably built in **1510** in Syrynia near Wodzisław Śląski and **moved to the city in 1…

Murcki Forest in Katowice

Katowice

Contrary to the stereotype of Katowice as a city of nothing but chimneys, a fragment of mixed forest with natural features is protected within its limits — the Murcki Forest reserve, established in **1953** and enlarged in **1989** to **10…

Museum in Nikiszowiec

Katowice

In the historic district of Nikiszowiec, built in **1908–1919** for the miners of the "Giesche" colliery to a design by the Berlin architects **Emil and Georg Zillmann**, at **4 Rymarska Street** operates the Museum in Nikiszowiec — the Ur…

Kościuszko Park in Katowice

Katowice

Tadeusz Kościuszko Park is the largest park of Katowice: it covers **72 hectares** between Kościuszki street, Piękna street and Górnośląska avenue, in the district of Brynów eastern part-Osiedle Zgrzebnioka. Its beginnings reach back to **…

Silesian Freedom and Solidarity Centre

Katowice

The Silesian Freedom and Solidarity Centre in Katowice's Brynów district is a museum dedicated to the strike and pacification of the Wujek mine of **16 December 1981**, which followed the introduction of martial law. A ZOMO riot platoon at…

Culture Zone in Katowice

Katowice

Between Spodek and the centre of Katowice, on the site of the former Katowice coal mine, a district has grown that changed the image of the city: the Culture Zone. At its central point rises the tower of the Warszawa II mine shaft, around…

Nativity Scene in Panewniki (Katowice)

Katowice

Every December since about **1908**, the basilica of Katowice-Panewniki has hosted one of the largest Christmas nativity scenes in Poland — practically since the church was built. The crib first stood in the right side of the temple; since…

Uroczysko Buczyna and the Fused Pines in Chorzów

Katowice

Uroczysko Buczyna on the south-western edge of Chorzów is a forest of over **65 ha**, designated a nature-landscape complex in **December 2001**. It is a fragment of the protective forest belt of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region which,…