Katowice City Break - City Centre Trail

In the interwar period Katowice was known as the Polish Chicago. Dozens of modern buildings sprang up there at that time, among them skyscrapers – some of the first in Poland and in Europe. This legacy is still visible today in the Silesian Parliament building, Karol Schayer's modernist apartment houses, the 62-metre Skyscraper and the Garrison Church of St Casimir.

We prepared an audio tour that leads from the Market Square past the Rialto cinema, across the square with the monument to Józef Piłsudski and past the monument to Wojciech Korfanty, to the Cathedral of Christ the King and a quarter of modernist apartment houses. The story of the architecture is interwoven with the history of the plebiscite and the Silesian Uprisings.

The tour is available in Polish.