Gliwice

Gliwice occupies a lowland position on the Kłodnica River in western Upper Silesia, within Poland’s Silesian Voivodeship. Long shaped by coal, steel and engineering, it remains part of the dense urban belt around Katowice while retaining a compact historic centre around the Market Square and Town Hall. The 111-metre wooden Gliwice Radio Tower, built in 1935, is the city’s most distinctive landmark; the site became internationally known through the staged Gleiwitz incident on 31 August 1939, used by Nazi Germany as a pretext for invading Poland. The Palm House in Chopin Park adds a very different green stop near the centre. Move on to other webcams in the region to compare landscapes and settings around the Silesian Voivodeship.

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