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Katowice Sightseeing
The fact that Katowice hasn't grown into a popular tourist destination can probably be explained by the brevity and slightly dubious nature of our Katowice sightseeing section - an earnest attempt to cover Katowice's main (ahem) attractions. Nope, no castle, no palace, no hip bohemian district. No pedestrian shopping avenues, bridges or scenic riverside. Uh, no, no ancient ruins. No Old Town per say. Alas, a trip around Katowice may call to mind the old adage 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' (with the coal dirt and other particulates, in this case).
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Spodek
In 1958 the Association of Polish Architects ran a competition to design a new stadium in Katowice. Won by a Warsaw company and designed by Maciej Gintowt and
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Tyskie Brewery
Located only 10km south of Katowice in the small town of Tychy, this originally German-owned brewery, now known as ‘Tyskie Browary
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Latest Comments
Sounds great!! We are planning a trip in May to Krakow. So we might go to the brewery. Thanks for a great suggestion!!![...]
I loved it!!I went with my girlfriend and it was amazing.I highly recommend it.The beer at the end of the tour is great![...]
Buy a history book, Marco. And learn to punctuate.[...]
I just dont see how a nation at war, with desperate need of man power in the factories, would waste the time, resources and money on killing people. And why tatoo them if your just gonna kill them. Not to mention modern forensic science has disprove[...]
"...the memory of the Poles of this thing is not very clean either..." meaning what, froggie? Were we lazy enough not to pull a couple of tanks out of our cupboards to wipe out the camp?! Go see your shrinkhead![...]
Who to trust, eh? Reading you guys makes Auschwitz look like a vacation camp. Well 2,000,000+ people died there just because they were mainly all jewish, but also black, gypsies, gay, etc. I'm afraid the memory of the Poles of this thing is not very[...]
The swimming pool was used by inmates, as was the soccer field and the concert hall.Rudolph Hoss was tortured and signed a "confession" in a language he did not understand. Most (if not all) information promulgated about Auschwitz was put out by th[...]
I just have to comment that facilities like "coffee house, swimming pool, kindergarten and a profusion of cultural events" were available to prisoners in Auschwitz (and Birkenau) as well.[...]