Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Palaces
Janów
This small manor house with a columned portico, tucked beneath old trees in the hamlet of Bystrzanowice-Dwór, passed through the hands of three well-known families within two centuries: the Bystrzanowskis, the Krasińskis and the Raczyńskis…
Museums
Tarnowskie Góry
Since December 2025 the upper floor of the Neo-Renaissance railway station in Tarnowskie Góry – the former waiting room – has housed the Culture Station (Dworzec Kultury), a branch of the Tarnowskie Góry Museum. Its main attraction is the…
Technical monuments
Katowice
In front of Katowice station stand 16 reinforced-concrete "chalices" – columns that flare upwards like concrete flowers. They echo the famous Brutalist station of 1972, demolished in 2010–2011 despite protests from architects. Today's stat…
Zoos
Sosnowiec
The Egzotarium in Sosnowiec (pronounced roughly "sos-NO-vyets") is a combined zoo and botanical garden housed in a striking glass building in southern Poland. Officially the Ecological Education Center – Egzotarium, it brings together aqua…
Other
Żarki
EtnoJura is a series of craft workshops run by Etno Pracownia in Żarki on the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland – on the studio's website the workshop gallery is titled "Warsztaty EtnoJury". Participants work with hay, wicker, wood and leather and…
Other
Racibórz
The Upper Oder Festival is a three-day summer celebration of the Upper Oder Land – the western part of the Silesian Voivodeship – spread over dozens of places along the river and in nearby towns. In 2025 it drew 200,669 visitors, with a pr…
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…
Technical monuments
Katowice
The Szyb Wilson Gallery at 1 Oswobodzenia Street in Katowice's Janów-Nikiszowiec district occupies the former miners' assembly hall and bathhouse of the Wilson shafts of the Wieczorek coal mine. It has been open since 2001, and with nearly…
Museums
Siewierz
South of the parish church in Siewierz, at 5 Kościuszki Street, stands a neat manor house with a mansard roof and dormers – the Old Commune Building. Since 2005 it has housed the Chamber of Tradition and Old Culture, a small museum about t…
Nature
gmina Kroczyce
In 1942 the face of a German quarry cut the cave in two – its middle section was exposed and destroyed, and its two entrances became four. Even so, Głęboka Cave ("Deep Cave") in Góra Zborów near Podlesice is today the only cave in the nort…
Churches & monasteries
Milówka
When the Austrian authorities requisitioned church bells for the war effort in 1916, the people of Milówka stole the large bell of St Anthony's Chapel back from the municipal office and buried it. After the war it returned to its place – a…
Churches & monasteries
Bielsko-Biała
The tower of St Nicholas Cathedral is 61 m tall and has defined the skyline of Bielsko-Biała's Old Town for more than a century. The church on St Nicholas Square, just below the former ducal castle, has Gothic roots going back to 1443, yet…
Churches & monasteries
Częstochowa
Mstów Monastery (say "mm-STOOF") is a fortified complex of the Canons Regular of the Lateran on the Warta River, in the village of Wancerzów just outside Mstów, a short drive northeast of Częstochowa in southern Poland. Behind a wall lined…
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…
Churches & monasteries
Woźniki
In the cemetery of Woźniki, away from the market square, stands a small wooden church with a slender turret. This is where the parish's history began: a first church of St Valentine was recorded here as early as 1490, in the so-called old…
Churches & monasteries
Świerklaniec
In the northern part of the park in Świerklaniec, away from where the Donnersmarcks' "little Versailles" once stood, rises a neo-Gothic church linked by a cloister to the family mausoleum. The tomb's roof is crowned by an angel of beaten c…
Churches & monasteries
Pszczyna
On Pszczyna's Market Square, right next to the town hall, stands a church that burned down twice and came back twice, each time thanks to money from its congregation and the local princes. The Lutheran church is now a neo-Baroque building…
Churches & monasteries
Skoczów
Holy Trinity Church in Skoczów is a Neo-Gothic Lutheran church from 1863–1865, built on the Wilamowice hill above the town. Its slender tower with a pyramid spire can be seen from many parts of Skoczów, and the town's Lutheran parish, with…
Churches & monasteries
Tarnowskie Góry
The tall clock tower on the market square in Tarnowskie Góry does not belong to the town hall but to the Lutheran church. The Church of the Saviour is a neo-Romanesque church whose story goes back to the 18th century, when a Lutheran paris…
Churches & monasteries
Wielowieś
The wooden Church of St Lawrence in Zacharzowice is only about 15 m long and 6 m wide, and almost all of its structure dates from the 16th century. Tree-ring dating carried out in 2008 showed that the roof truss over the nave was set up an…
Churches & monasteries
Koszęcin
Koszęcin parish took out a loan to build this church and could not pay it back for well over a decade. Hyperinflation finally came to the rescue: in 1923 the rest of the debt was settled for the equivalent of eight loaves of bread. The bri…
Churches & monasteries
Świerklaniec
The brick church in Nakło Śląskie looks as if someone had combined a Romanesque Revival church with a Byzantine dome. It was founded by Count Lazarus IV Henckel von Donnersmarck, who paid about 90% of the building costs and had a family ma…
Churches & monasteries
Miasteczko Śląskie
The parishioners of Żyglin waited almost 40 years for permission to build this church. They applied in 1801, and approval from Berlin only came in 1838. The church, built of local limestone, went up in 1840–1842. It is an example of the ro…
Churches & monasteries
Zwardoń
At first glance it looks like two buildings joined together: a small brick chapel with a turret and a soaring structure with triangular gables clad in red metal. That is how the church in Zwardoń tells the story of a village that grew up a…