John Paul II Kraków-Balice International Airport 53 min
Silesia Park (13 min) 620-acre nature park with forest trails, ponds & wildlife, plus a planetarium, zoo & funfair. Silesian Insurgents' Monument (10 min) Completed in 1957, this monument is dedicated to the participants of the Silesian Uprisings. Galeria Szyb Wilson (10 min) Art gallery, mining, art museum, and art Sztolnia Królowa Luiza (19 min) Mining and museum Valley of Three Ponds (9 min) Cathedral of Christ the King, Katowice (12 min) Built 1927–1955, the country's largest cathedral offers a coal altar honoring miners & guided tours. Silesian Museum (11 min) Former coal-mining site, now an art & industry museum with underground galleries & a restaurant. Katowice market square (5 min) Legendia (12 min) Family-friendly theme park with rides for younger children, on-site restaurants & a haunted house. Kosciuszko Park (13 min) Urban park since 1925 with a parachute tower, soldiers' monument & playground with a climbing wall. Silesian Zoological Garden (16 min) Zoo with over 2500 animals divided into wild & domesticated sections as well as replica dinosaurs. Guido Mine and Coal Mining Museum (20 min) Tours with ex-miners of 19th-century coal mine tunnels, plus museum & subterranean concert chambers. Królewski Zamek Będziński (16 min) Planetarium Śląskie (18 min) A planetarium within a 75-foot dome with astronomy exhibits & an observatory founded in 1955. Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park (14 min) Outdoor museum of historic agricultural buildings from the region, such as cottages & farmsteads. |