Saturday, 31 October 2015
I love big cities - so Katowice, too.
31st October 2015
The most common bank in Europe - ING Bank
A sneaky gliTmpse 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 reinforced concrete building that looks like a spaceship and plays music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Marvellous.
The Silesian University
The Qubus Hotel
The trees are bare because lately the weather was windy but sunny.
I prefer big cities to small one. I love walking and doing shopping there. I know thee atre crowded and busy but it doesn't mind for me... Katowice is one of my favourite city in Poland. I love Tricity, too but it is about 700 km from my place. Katowice is a young city but there are a lot of interesting landmarks, here. It worth visiting.
Foreign travellers putting together their Polish tourist itineraries have a tendency to overlook Katowice and the greater Silesian Metropolis altogether. The same goes for most Poles who long ago wrote Katowice off as nothing more than a coal dust covered backwater. Oh how wrong they are. The last few years have seen this historically working class city emerge from a decades-long post-industrial funk and is now rapidly becoming one of the most innovative, culturally dynamic and economically vibrant regions in all of Poland. With vast infrastructure and renovations projects underway across the region, Katowice’s future looks even brighter.
Beginning life as a small, German-speaking town called Kattowitz in the early part of the 19th century, Katowice was incorporated within the borders of a new post-WWI Polish state, and thanks to its disparate racial and cultural heritage offers visitors a fascinating jumble of German Gothic, inter-war Art Nouveau and some shockingly different socialist architecture, all intermingled with a growing number of glistening capitalist palaces.
The most common bank in Europe - ING Bank
A sneaky gliTmpse 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 reinforced 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 Śląskin Polish) is generally considered to be the region surrounding Katowice which has certain definite geographic boundaries in some parts, while seemingly 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. Silesia then, in some ways, is an abstract concept and a geographical anomaly. The region spreads out from Katowice’s suburbs and sprawls into a matrix of towns and cities that were once historically connected through heavy industry and political autonomy. This shared history helped forge a strong regional identity and indeed Silesia has its own dialect (Silesian) which is a mix of Polish, German and Czech.
The situated near city centre..
The Silesian University
The Qubus Hotel
The trees are bare because lately the weather was windy but sunny.
Have a sunny Sunday and Halloween!!!!
Thursday, 29 October 2015
Katowice- my province capital city
30th October 2015
Photos were taken last Thursday.
Photos were taken last Thursday.
The Silesian Metropolis (Polish: Metropolia Silesia),] formally Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia (Polish: Górnośląski Związek Metropolitalny) is an association of municipalities composed of 14 adjacent cities in the Polish Province of Silesia. The seat of the city council is Katowice, the largest district of the Silesian Metropolis. It is often confused as a term referring the local conurbation in a geographical context, the Katowice Urban Area and Upper Silesian metropolitan area.
The Silesian Metropolis as a Katowice area lies within one of the largest urban areas in European Union. Its population is 2,039,454 (2008), within an urban zone, with a population of 2,746,460 according to Eurostat] and also part of the widerSilesian metropolitan area, with a population of 5,294,000 according to the European Spatial Planning Observation Network.
It was created by a local initiative, and participation was voluntary. The intent to form the union was formally stated by the mayors of the participating cities, who signed a declaration to this effect on 9 January 2006 in Świętochłowice
In 2006 and 2007, the union planned to unite these cities into one entity, "Silesia". from wikipedia
Countryside in the south - east of Poland
29th October 2015
Today I would like to show you some photos which I took while I was coming back to my permanent residence in Upper Silesia. Last Sunday the weather was perfect.Our summer house is located 256 km from my flat so it took us 3 hours to reach home. We mostly use motorway but about 60 km we must drive on the road which leads between interesting, charming villages.
Today I would like to show you some photos which I took while I was coming back to my permanent residence in Upper Silesia. Last Sunday the weather was perfect.Our summer house is located 256 km from my flat so it took us 3 hours to reach home. We mostly use motorway but about 60 km we must drive on the road which leads between interesting, charming villages.
Have a nice Friday!!
Thanks for visiting!!!
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