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The Building of the Silesian Library in Katowice
Katowice (1.46 km)
The distinctive, modern building of the Silesian Library in Katowice is located on the Rada Europy Square (The Council of Europe Square). It was built in the late twentieth century. The building was designed by Marek Gierlotki, Stanislaw Jarecki and Jurand Kwaśniewicz. The library dates back to the early 20s of the twentieth century, when the institution named the Silesian Library was created. Currently, the Silesian Library has of more than 2 million volumes in its collection.
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Fabryka Porcelany
Katowice (1.56 km)
Fabryka Porcelany
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The District Court Building located at Francuska St in Katowice
Katowice (1.57 km)
The District Court Building located at Francuska Street in Katowice is a laureate of the competition of the Best Public Space of the Silesian Voivodeship for the year 2010.The building is modern and functional at the same time. The serious and monumental aesthetic corresponds to its purposes. This compact building has the shape of a shape of an elongated cuboid, but inside there are courtyards with greenery. The building was built between 2005 and 2009.
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The Historic Cemetery at Francuska St in Katowice
Katowice (1.66 km)
There are 23 cemeteries in Katowice. In many of them well known people are buried, and we can admire beautiful tombstones. But the most important necropolis of Katowice, the counterpart of Warsaw’s Powązki and Cracow’s Rakowice, is the cemetery of the parish of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary located at Francuska Street. The Avenue of Honor can be found here, including the graves of Wojciech Korfanty, Józef Rymer and General Józef Ziętek.
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The Academy of Music in Katowice
Katowice (1.75 km)
The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice is the oldest Polish institution of higher education in Silesia. It is housed in several buildings in the city center, of which the neo-Gothic main building (the former building school) and the Centre for Contemporary Arts and Music Education "Symphony" distinguish themselves. Since 2002, the Museum of Silesian Organs has been operating in the Academy, featuring antique musical instruments, as well as archival documents related to them.
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The Museum of the History of Katowice
Katowice (1.83 km)
The Museum of the History of Katowice was founded in 1983 as a continuation of the Social Museum of the History of Katowice and a branch of the Upper Silesian Museum. Currently, the museum is housed in an Art Nouveau building located in the city center street, at the Księdza Szafranka Street. The museum invites you to see two permanent exhibitions: one is devoted to the history of Katowice; the other presents recreated house interiors of the middle and upper classes. The Museum holds a collection of pastels by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz - Witkacy.
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The Edifice of the Silesian Parliament in Katowice
Katowice (1.91 km)
In the interwar period, the Silesian Parliament (Sejm) was in the legislative authority of the autonomous Silesian voivodeship. In the years 1925-1929, a magnificent edifice was built in Katowice, which became the seat of both the Silesian Parliament and the Voivodeship Office. The building was the largest in Poland at that time. It- was built in the neo- Classicist style. The Parliament Hall became a model for the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, which was being constructed at the same time.
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The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Katowice
Katowice (1.91 km)
The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is currently the oldest surviving Catholic church in the center of Katowice.The parish church of Saint Mary’s, was built in the years 1862-1870. This beautiful neo-Gothic church stands at the eastern end of Mariacka Street (originally Richard Holze Street) Inside, there are, among others, beautiful stained glass windows, designed by Adam Bunsch.
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The Educational House in Katowice
Katowice (1.91 km)
The Educational House of the People's Libraries Society at Francuska Street in Katowice is one of the most spectacular examples of modernist architecture created in interwar Poland. The building was erected in the years 1929-1934, and the designers were Stanislaw Tabeński and Józef Rybicki. The edifice presents all the features of a modern building, recommended by the master modernists - French architect, Le Corbusier.
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The Cemetery at Sienkiewicza St in Katowice
Katowice (1.98 km)
The cemetery located at present Sienkiewicza Street in Katowice was set up for the newly established Roman Catholic parish of Saints Peter and Paul at the beginning of the last century. Over time, the cemetery has become one of the main graveyards of the city, where people especially meritorious for Silesia and Polish have been buried, among them, Stanisław Ligoń, Zbigniew Cybulski, Alfred Szklarski and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. There are a lot of interesting gravestones and a Modernist cemetery chapel in the graveyard.
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The Krystyna Bochenek Cultural Center of Katowice
Katowice (1.98 km)
The Krystyna Bochenek Cultural Center of Katowice is one of the most important cultural institutions on the map of Upper Silesia. The center arranges exhibitions and conducts educational activities, organizing festivals and concerts. The Korez Theater, the Centre of Polish Stage Art and music clubs operate in the building. It was built in the 1970s as the Educational and Ideological Center for Workers’ Cadre.
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The Edifice of the Central Administration Offices in Katowice
Katowice (2.03 km)
The Edifice of the Central Administration Offices forms a western frontage of the Silesian Parliament Square in Katowice. It was built in the late 30s of the last century to accommodate the government offices, which were not housed in the Silesian Parliament. The office building was designed by modernist Witold Kłębkowski, who gave it the shape of a lying cuboid. Before the Second World War, there was a stone relief of a crowned eagle on the eastern facade of the southern projection. The work of Stanisław Szukalski was removed by the Nazis.
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