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Katowice

Introduction

OFF: from the hotel window

Katowice is a city in the southern Polish region of Silesia. Although the city itself has just over 300,000 inhabitants, the total urban area has around 2.8 million inhabitants and the metropolitan area 5.3 million!

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Neighbourhoods

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Sights and Activities

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Events and Festivals

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Weather

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Getting There

By Plane

Katowice International Airport (KTW) is about 30 kilometres north of the city centre. Ryanair flies to Birmingham, Bologna, Dublin and London. Wizzair flies to Barcelona, Bergen, Burgas, Brussels, Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Forli, Frankfurt, Liverpool, London, Madrid, Malmö, Milan, Oslo, Paris, Pisa, Rome, Stockholm and Venice. A few other airlines serve destinations like Kiev, Düsseldorf, Warsaw, Turin, Munich and Tel Aviv.

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Getting Around

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By Public Transport

By Foot

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Eat

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Drink

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Sleep

Property	Address	Type	Popularity
Best Western Premier Hotel	Bytkowska 1a	Hotel	73

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Work

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Learn

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Keep Connected

Internet

Phone

Post

Poczta Polska is the Polish public post service. Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 6:00pm Monday to Friday. Some offices are open on Saturday until 2:00pm and the main post offices in major cities are open daily, 24 hours.
Services are generally ok, but don't expact it to be fast and it is not always reliable, though most letters, postcards and parcels will arrive at its destinations after a week or two. You can find the red post boxes dotted throughout the country. You can check this postal website to see how much sending a letter, postcard or parcels costs, both domestically as well as internationally.

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