Upper Silesia, a region in southern Poland with long historic ties to the coal industry, is marked by the blood, sweat, and tears of miners. Now, designers are taking this “black gold” and ...

A relatively modern city by Polish standards, Katowice was just a village less than 200 years ago. It grew into the beating heart of Polish heavy industry until the end of the 20th century. Less than ...

The actuality was that since the Middle Ages many inhabitants of Silesia did not regard themselves to be either German or Polish and did not consider German or Polish their mother tongue. The ...

Poland's Culture and National Heritage Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gliński (centre) unveils the Upper Silesian Pantheon, a gallery of prominent Polish figures in the history of the region ...

Situated in Southern Poland, Upper Silesia is soaked in hundreds of years of mining tradition. Old workers’ neighbourhoods, through their architecture and use of local motifs, remind locals and ...