south of Poland in upper course of the Vistula River, the Odra River and the Warta River and it boarders with Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The tourist virtues of the Silesian Province are first of all easy forested hills of the Silesian Beskid, the Żywiecki Beskid and Small Beskid and picturesque landscapes of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland.
They were counterbalance to very much urbanised Silesia since a long time. Very good conditions for accommodation and infrastructure in the Beskids cause that the area is attractive through all the seasons and it attracts numerous crowds of tourists and holiday makers from entire Poland and more and more often also from abroad.
Hiking is very popular here during summer and skiing dominates in winter. More and more popular also become : water sports, horse-riding, angling, hunting and air sports like gliding, paragliding and hang gliding.
Tourism and active resting is able owing to almost 1,5 thousands kilometres of marked tourist routes, dozen mountain hostels, three aerial ropeways (Szczyrk-Skrzyczne, Ustroń-Czantoria and Szyndzielnia), 150 chairlifts and 200 kilometres of ski runs where most of them are illuminated and covered with snow artificially ), many agriculture tourist farms and developed leisure centres in Wisła, Ustronie and Szczyrk.
Szczyrk is the locality considered as winter capital of the Beskids where exceptional attraction is the FIS ski downhill course.
Among cultural attractions of the Silesian Province the first place without doubts takes the Cloister of Pauline Fathers on Jasna Góra in Częstochowa.
It is the only monument of “O” class rank in the region.
The Province Culture and Leisure Park in Chorzów is one of attractions in Silesia.
Over 4 thousands buildings in the Silesian Province are registered as the monuments but there are many more to be registered.
In majority the monuments are architecture buildings: castles, palaces, mansion houses, churches and chapels, urban systems of particular towns, cemeteries and historical parks.
You are invited to visit the silesian province! |
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