Things to do in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry lives from its silver and lead mining heritage: the Historic Silver Mine and the Black Trout Adit with its boat ride are on the UNESCO list. The town also offers a market square lined with town houses and plenty of green parks.
Map of attractions in Tarnowskie Góry
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All attractions (16)
Mountains & peaks
Historic Silver Mine Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
The Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry (say "tar-NOV-skyeh GOO-rih") is the only underground tourist route in Poland set inside former silver, lead and zinc mines. You descend about 40 m (130 ft) below ground, walk nearly 2 km of old…
Hidden gemMountains & peaks
Black Trout Adit
Tarnowskie Góry
The Black Trout Adit in Tarnowskie Góry (Sztolnia Czarnego Pstrąga, roughly SHTOL-nya CHAR-neh-go PSTRON-ga) is a 600-meter stretch of a 19th-century drainage tunnel that visitors explore by boat, deep underground. It formed part of the sy…
Hidden gemCastles
Tarnowice Stare Castle
Tarnowskie Góry
For decades under communism, the Renaissance castle of the Wrochem family in Tarnowice Stare served as the headquarters of a state farm and decayed so badly that the town struggled for years to find a buyer. In 2000 it was bought by Krysty…
Museums
Culture Station and Model Railway in Tarnowskie Góry
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…
Free entry
Other
Gwarki in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
Gwarki (pronounced "GVAR-kee") is the annual town festival of Tarnowskie Góry ("tar-NOF-skyeh GOO-rih"), a former silver- and lead-mining town in Upper Silesia, southern Poland. Held every September since 1957, it celebrates the town's min…
Nature
Tailings Heap in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
The Friedrich Mine washing tip in Tarnowskie Góry (Hałda popłuczkowa, pronounced roughly "TAR-nov-skyeh GOO-ri") is a flat-topped, orange mound of mining waste that has been part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017. It is the leftov…
Free entry
Technical monuments
Industriada
Tarnowskie Góry
Industriada (pronounced "in-doos-tree-AH-dah") is an annual industrial heritage festival in Poland's Silesian Voivodeship, the region around Katowice. Each June, dozens of historic coal and silver mines, ironworks, breweries, railway sites…
Churches & monasteries
Church of the Saviour in Tarnowskie Góry
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
Old Church of St Martin in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
In Stare Tarnowice, in a churchyard enclosed by a limestone wall, stands the oldest church in Tarnowskie Góry – a relic of the days before the town existed, when Tarnowice was a knightly village. The old Church of St Martin was built from…
Other
Jubilee Mural in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
Step off the train in Tarnowskie Góry and you walk straight into five hundred years of the town's history, painted on a single wall. The Jubilee Mural at the transport interchange next to the station is around 120 metres long and, accordin…
Free entry
Museums
Tarnowskie Góry Museum
Tarnowskie Góry
In August 1683, on his way to relieve Vienna, King Jan III Sobieski stopped in Tarnowskie Góry and said goodbye to Queen Marie Casimire here. Memorabilia of that episode, a painted 17th-century ceiling and a collection of old European pain…
Palaces
Brynek Palace
Tarnowskie Góry
Two towers with onion domes, a mansard roof and an attic crowned by figures of a hunter, a worker, a farmer and a fisherman – Brynek Palace is one of the grandest magnate residences in Upper Silesia. It owes its present eclectic form to Co…
Gardens
Repecki Park in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
Repty Park (Park w Reptach, roughly "REP-tih") in Tarnowskie Góry is a 19th-century landscape park of about 200 hectares (500 acres), laid out by the aristocratic Henckel von Donnersmarck family on the site of a former deer park. Old beech…
Free entry
Nature
Segiet Nature Reserve
Tarnowskie Góry
Segiet Nature Reserve (say "SEH-gyet") is a beech-forest reserve on the border of Bytom and Tarnowskie Góry in Upper Silesia, about 20 km north of Katowice. It covers the top of Srebrna Góra, literally "Silver Hill" (347 m), where centurie…
Free entry
Old towns & squares
Market Square in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
The Market Square in Tarnowskie Góry is considered one of the finest town squares in Upper Silesia. It is an irregular trapezium 108 m long – the gwarkowie, the town's ore miners, built their houses next to mine shafts rather than along a…
Free entry
Monuments & mounds
Miner Sculptures in Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry
Miners holding lamps are Tarnowskie Góry's answer to the dwarfs of Wrocław. Since 2013 the town has unveiled a new outdoor sculpture of a 'gwarek' every year, and by December 2024 there were twelve of them – from the Market Square to outly…
Free entry