Tripto Guide
9 places. The best places, landmarks and ideas for exploring the region. Open a place to see all details.

Zabrze
**Guido Coal Mine in Zabrze** takes visitors 320 metres underground to authentic workings, mining machinery and spaces connected with the history of coal extraction. This is not a museum with one hall: visits follow selected routes, always…

Zabrze
The Jewish cemetery at 15 Cmentarna Street in Zabrze is a protected historic site and an important trace of Upper Silesia’s multicultural past. It was established in 1871; the oldest surviving gravestone dates from 18 September that year.…

Zabrze
## Key information St. Hedwig’s Church in Zabrze’s Poremba district is an unusual wooden church from the interwar period. It stands at 504 Wolności Street and remains an active parish church. Its oval, twelve-sided body with four towers co…

Zabrze
**St Joseph’s Church and Sanctuary in Ruda Śląska** is one of the most distinctive churches of industrial Upper Silesia. The Neo-Romanesque brick basilica was founded by the Ballestrem family and stands out through its Italian architectura…

Zabrze
On Jan Paweł II Square in Nowy Bytom, regarded as the main market square of Ruda Śląska, stands the mighty basilica of St. Paul the Apostle — one of the finest examples of Romanesque Revival in Upper Silesia. Construction began in 1911, an…

Zabrze
On Kościelne Hill in Zabrze-Mikulczyce stands the neo-Gothic church of St Lawrence — a church with an exceptionally well documented Upper Silesian history. The parish paid Peter's pence as early as **1326**, and according to the parish pri…

Zabrze
On Krakusa and Stalmacha streets, in the Małe Zabrze part of the city, one of the more interesting workers' colonies of Upper Silesia has survived. Zandka — the colloquial name of the complex, also called the Sand Colony (German: Sandkolon…
Zabrze
Several cat figures have taken up residence in the public spaces of Ruda Śląska. The first one arrived in September **2014** on Jan Paweł II square in Nowy Bytom, right by the city hall. Later ones went to Wirek, next to the library, and t…

Zabrze
A car-based thematic route past **forty sites** of industrial heritage in the Silesian voivodeship: mines, breweries, energy, railway, communications and food industry landmarks. It is run by the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze. The most valu…