A sneaky glimpse under the cultural carpet reveals, among other delightful surprises, Poland's largest cathedral, one of the best museums in southern PL, a vast park filled with truly magnificent things to see and do, a bar scene to shame many of the country's so-called cutting-edge cities, and a concrete building that looks like a spaceship and plays music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Marvellous.
But hold on a second, what about this whole Silesian Metropolis thing? Good question. Silesia (or Śląsk in Polish) is generally considered to be the region surrounding Katowice which has certain definite geographic boundaries (sorry Sosnowiec) in some parts, while seeming endlessly expansive in other parts. The somewhat nebulous 'Silesia' is not to be confused with the very concrete municipal province of Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk) of which Katowice is the regional capital.
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