Warsaw – the capital city of Poland

Katowice – our city and the capital city of our region - Silesia

The Baltic Sea

The emblem of Poland

The flag of Poland

Silesia

This is the coat of arms of Silesia This is the flag of Silesia

CHORZÓW PARKChorzów is the neighbouring city. Its park is a great place to rest.

There are lots of attractions, for example:1.The Amusement Park 2.The Silesian ZOO 3. The Rosarium

4.The swimming pool 5.The Planetarium 6.The Exhibition Hall ‘Fala’ ( ‘The Wave’) ‘Kapelusz’ (‘The Hat’)

Katowice

Katowice Today

• Katowice is the capital of Silesia. • It is a quickly developing city, open

for changes and attractive for young people.

• Our school is situated in one of the districts of this town – Piotrowice.

Piotrowice

• It is a quiet and nice part of Katowice, placed quite near the forest.

• In Piotrowice we have many shops, a few petrol stations, banks and a hospital, so there is everything we need, but there are no factories.

Spodek in Katowice In Spodek we can watch many concerts, sports competitions and fashion shows.Everyone knows that Spodek is a place where we can skate all year long.Spodek means ‘saucer’ in English, but it is just a sports and concerts hall which can hold 11,500 people.

In the pictures we can see Spodek at night and at day time.It’s the most popular attraction in our city.The building is beautifully illuminated at night, so that symbol of Katowice looks like a spaceship or a UFO.

This is a multipurpose arena

complex in Katowice. In Spodek you can go on an ice-rink, watch a match of basketball, volleyball or ice-hockey. There are music concerts, many parties and circus performances, too.

A lot of famous people performed in ‘Spodek’. For example on the 1st of March 2010 we had a concert of a famous composer of electronical music Jean-Michel Jarre.

WORTH SEEINGParachute Tower Katowice is a 50 meter tall lattice parachute tower built in 1937 for training parachute jumps, located in Kościuszko Park. It was used in the first days of World War II by 73rd regiment of infantry as an observation tower. This is the only one tower located in Poland. If you already in Kościuszko Park, you can visit Church of St. Michael Archangel, which is a little church made of wood. It was built in 1510 in Syrynia, but in 1938 it was moved to Katowice.