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Tarnowskie Góry
The Equestrian Centre in Zbrosławice has operated since **1973**, when the Academic Equestrian Club from Katowice brought the first four horses here — within two weeks the stables held thirty animals, and an old mill became the club's base…
Tarnowskie Góry
Not far from Tarnowskie Góry rises the Neo-Gothic Donnersmarck Palace, modelled on English Gothic and Tudor architecture. Its tall tower, stepped gables and dormers with tent-shaped roofs make it one of the most recognisable monuments of t…
Tarnowskie Góry
From the main road of Brynek, a village near Tarnowskie Góry, the domes of an eclectic palace with two towers topped by onion helmets peer through the trees. The residence, today home to the Forest and Ecological Schools Complex, travelled…
Tarnowskie Góry
By the Zielona reservoir, in the part of Kalety separated from the town centre by a forest, stands the former hunting residence of the Donnersmarcks — one of the richest families of Upper Silesia. The historic building, listed in descripti…
Tarnowskie Góry
Late-classical residence in Lubliniec County, since **1953** the home of the Stanisław Hadyna Song and Dance Ensemble „Śląsk”. The site's history goes back to the Middle Ages, while the palace owes its present shape to the remodelling of *…
Tarnowskie Góry
Wilkowice near Zbrosławice, a dozen or so kilometres west of Tarnowskie Góry, hide a family Park of Adventures and Attractions that grew out of a small indoor playroom. Today it is a large area by a pond, with a deer enclosure, a beach and…
Tarnowskie Góry
Between Repty and Stare Tarnowice, in the northern part of Tarnowskie Góry, stretches Repecki Park — the former grounds of the neorenaissance residence of the **Henckel von Donnersmarck** family, for whom these lands were a hunting retreat…
Tarnowskie Góry
On the border of Bytom and Tarnowskie Góry, at the top of **Srebrna Góra (347 m above sea level)**, grows a forest that owes its existence to mining. The „Segiet” reserve was designated on **27 April 1953** to protect beech woods that had…
Tarnowskie Góry
The market square of Tarnowskie Góry took shape in the **second half of the 16th century** and has the form of an irregular trapezoid — the gwarki, silver and lead miners, built houses around mine shafts, not along a planned grid. Two shaf…
Tarnowskie Góry
Bearded miners with a lamp in hand have been appearing across Tarnowskie Góry since 2013. The gwarek statues were unveiled year after year, and by December 2024 **twelve** of them stood in public spaces, from the market square to distant d…
Tarnowskie Góry
In the forest near Miasteczko Śląskie, about **3 kilometres** from the Nakło-Chechło reservoir, hides Gierzyna. It is in fact several smaller ponds connected by a stream and backwaters, protected as an ecological site. The place remains qu…
Tarnowskie Góry
North of Połomia, a farming village in the commune of Tworóg, stretch two groups of ponds: the better-kept Szkarotkowe Ponds and the wilder, partly dried-up Wesoła Ponds to the west. No asphalt road leads to them — the car is left by the b…
Tarnowskie Góry
On an island in the middle of the Zielona Reservoir in Kalety stands a wooden windmill — a former mill, today one of the most recognisable structures of the Tarnowskie Góry area. Water on all sides and trees around the building make it loo…
Tarnowskie Góry
In Żyglin — part of the town of Miasteczko Śląskie in the Tarnowskie Góry county — an unusual natural feature hides on Przygodna street with no sign or fence: a sand dune. At the beginning of the 20th century it was still massive, but over…
Tarnowskie Góry
In Zielona, the eastern district of Kalety, the Mała Panew river spreads into two reservoirs linked by an embankment — the Zielona reservoir. The area, called the forest nook of Silesia, combines mining history with recreation: the smaller…