Discover Tarnowskie Góry

Tarnowskie Góry brings together mining history, city history and landscape from different perspectives. Topics include the underground visitor routes, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Historic Silver Mine, the town museum and the three-day Gwarki Festival; Miejski Park adds to the range of themes. If you are looking for a hotel in Tarnowskie Góry, these highlights can help you organise your interests for your stay.

Underground visitor routes

The Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On its underground route, visitors can travel by boat along an underground river. The difference is clear when choosing between underground attractions: at the silver mine, the boat trip is part of the visitor experience, while the visitor route at the Black Trout Adit includes more than 100 steps.

City history, museum and Gwarki

The Museum in Tarnowskie Góry focuses on the town’s history, as well as art and ethnography. The museum is housed in the Sedlaczek House, on the corner of the Market Square and Gliwicka Street. At the three-day town festival, Gwarki, the Gwarkowski Parade depicts, among other things, important episodes from the town’s history. In this way, you encounter city history both as a museum subject and through the episodes depicted in the parade. Editions and programmes vary; if you would like to include Gwarki, check the dates for your chosen edition in advance.

Parkland and mining history

Miejski Park preserves the topography of a former mining area and is characterised by varied terrain, architectural features and green spaces. Its preserved landforms thus complement the underground visitor routes with a landscape perspective on mining history.

In the wider Tarnowskie Góry destination

In the wider Tarnowskie Góry destination, the Black Trout Adit offers a 600-metre underground boat trip and is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a heritage site. Also in the wider Tarnowskie Góry destination, the Historic Silver Mine includes a 1,700-metre underground visitor route, 270 metres of which are covered by boat. When comparing routes, read the distances separately: 600 metres refers to the boat trip at the adit, while at the mine, 1,700 metres refers to the entire visitor route and 270 metres to the section by boat. This makes it easy to distinguish between the two routes. In the wider Tarnowskie Góry destination, Miejski Park is considered the best-preserved, most extensive and most diverse of the parks created on former mining land.

An official rail and cycling route runs through Tarnowskie Góry and Repecki Park by bike or on foot, then continues along the Drama towards Zbrosławice, all within the wider Tarnowskie Góry destination. For navigation, you can distinguish the section through the town and park from the continuation along the Drama. As route conditions can change, it is worth checking the current route before setting off.

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