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Type
  
Status
  
Open all year

Created
  
1950s/1960s

Phone
  
+48 32 793 70 08

Silesian Park

Location
  
Katowice and Chorzów, Silesia, Poland

Area
  
620 hectares (1,532.1 acres)6.2 square kilometres (2.4 sq mi)

Address
  
aleja Różana 2, 41-501 Chorzów, Poland

Hours
  
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Similar
  
Silesian Amusement Park, Silesian Stadium, Silesian Zoological Garden, Upper Silesian Ethnogra, Silesian Planetarium

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Silesian Park managed by WPKiW S.A. (Polish: Park Śląski and Wojewódzki Park Kultury i Wypoczynku S.A., abbreviated as WPKiW and translatable as Voivodeship Park of Culture and Recreation S.A.) is a recreation complex in the center of the Upper-Silesian Metropolis at a border of Chorzów and Katowice in Silesia, Poland.

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The area of the park is 620 hectares. By comparison, it's almost twice as big as Central Park in New York.

It was created in the 1950s from an initiative of local politician Jerzy Ziętek to restore an industrially-devastated piece of land in the middle of a highly urbanized area.

In addition to the extensive green area, the following are located in the park:

  • Silesian Stadium
  • Silesian Zoological Garden
  • Silesian Planetarium
  • Silesian Amusement Park
  • Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park
  • Katowice International Fair Grounds
  • Stadium of GKS Katowice
  • Shooting range
  • a swimming-pool complex
  • a water sports center
  • tennis courts
  • the rose-garden
  • The Technical Progress Centre
  • a hotel complex, the Polish Tourist' Society and the Polish Scouts' Association district centers, restaurants, cafés and show pavilions where flower shows and other exhibits are held.
  • Silesian park narrow gauge railway


    References

    Silesian Park Wikipedia