John Paul II Kraków-Balice International Airport 51 min
Silesia Park (5 min)
620-acre nature park with forest trails, ponds & wildlife, plus a planetarium, zoo & funfair. Silesian Insurgents' Monument (8 min)
Completed in 1957, this monument is dedicated to the participants of the Silesian Uprisings. Silesian Museum (5 min)
Former coal-mining site, now an art & industry museum with underground galleries & a restaurant. Valley of Three Ponds (9 min) Katowice market square (11 min) Królewski Zamek Będziński (14 min) Planetarium Śląskie (10 min)
A planetarium within a 75-foot dome with astronomy exhibits & an observatory founded in 1955. Guido Mine and Coal Mining Museum (14 min)
Tours with ex-miners of 19th-century coal mine tunnels, plus museum & subterranean concert chambers. Sztolnia Królowa Luiza (14 min)
Mining and museum Cathedral of Christ the King, Katowice (10 min)
Built 1927–1955, the country's largest cathedral offers a coal altar honoring miners & guided tours. Legendia (4 min)
Family-friendly theme park with rides for younger children, on-site restaurants & a haunted house. Kosciuszko Park (7 min)
Urban park since 1925 with a parachute tower, soldiers' monument & playground with a climbing wall. Silesian Zoological Garden (15 min)
Zoo with over 2500 animals divided into wild & domesticated sections as well as replica dinosaurs. Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park (6 min)
Outdoor museum of historic agricultural buildings from the region, such as cottages & farmsteads. | 
