Bytom

Bytom is an industrial city in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is a part of the Silesian Metropolis of which the capital is nearby Katowice.

Understand

Get in

By plane

At a distance of about 23 km north of Bytom is located international airport "Katowice" in Pyrzowice.

In addition, at a distance of about 80 km there is the International Airport Krakow-Balice. It is the largest regional airport in the country and the second after Warsaw airport by number of passengers. It supports persistent connections cruise with more than twenty airlines: Air France, Eurolot, LOT, Lufthansa.

In the near distance (approx. 70-90 km) from Bytom is also an international airport Ostrava-Mošnov in the Czech Republic. With its services are used by almost fifteen airlines: Austrian Airlines, Air Europa and Fischer Air.

By train

The 🌍 Bytom railway station is located on the southern edge of the historical centre.

By car

Bytom is an important road junction. It lies on the crossroads of major routes of regional, national and international levels. Thus provides good connections to the cities of the Upper Silesian agglomeration and the major urban centers in the country, but also from countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany and Ukraine. Additional road connections with the city on the north-south A1 highway provides.

By bus

The main public transport company in Bytom is KZK GOP, which supports the tram and bus stops. On his instructions, all tram lines are operated by the company Silesian Trams and bus services include, among others the PKM Katowice, PKM Świerklaniec and Nowak Transport.

The 🌍 Bytom bus station can be reached by the following bus lines (KZK GOP and MZKP): 14, 17, 19, 20, 24, 39, 42, 52, 53, 85, 91, 92, 94, 99, 104, 114, 127, 132 , 135, 146, 148 (167), 169, 173, 176, 183, 184, 185, 192, 201, 227, 280, 608, 623, 700, 708, 734, 735, 750, 820, 830, 850 and bus stations.

Get around

See
  • 🌍 Upper Silesia Museum (Muzeum Górnośląskie), plac Sobieskiego 2, ☎ +48 32 281 34 01. Tu and F: 9:00—15:00, W-Th: 10:00—18:00, Sa-Su: 12:00—18:00, M closed. 10 zł regular, 5 zł reduced. On Su free access to permanent exhibitions. (updated Mar 2018)
  • 🌍 Żabie Doły.  
  • Raid shelter in Miechowice, Kasztanowa. Built during the Second World War, the shelter had a capacity of 250 people in a room of 2 meters high in case of an attack. 
  • Family crypt Tiele von Winckler in holy cross church
  • Szombierki Heat Power Station
  • Cemetery Mater Dolosa and Jewish.
  • 🌍 Shaft "Krystyna" in Szombierki (Szyb "Krystyna"). 
  • 🌍 Kolonia Zgorzelec (Skorzeletz), ul. Kolonia Zgorzelec. Some typical working class houses built for people working in the steel mill Huta Zygmunt and their families. These houses got built between 1897 and 1901. The neighborhood consists of 34 buildings for either two or four families. Currently parts of the buildings are uninhabited. (updated Feb 2018)
  • 🌍 Statue of the Sleeping Lion (Lew śpiący / Schlafender Löwe), Rynek. The statue is situated on the main Rynek square in Bytom. (updated Feb 2018)

Do

Events
  • Saint John's Eve
  • Half marathon
  • Bytom Day
  • Festival strange cool
  • Bytom antiques fair in Szombierki

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Connect

In street Dworcowa and Plac Sikorskiego you can find some free hotspots.

Go next

Upper Silesia Narrow Gauge Railway, which have 21 kilometers, drive with Bytom to Miasteczko śląskie (silesia country town). Along the way you can get off to get to the reservoir in Chechło.

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