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Katowice District in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Janów-Nikiszowiec

Janów-Nikiszowiec is a district of Katowice, located in the eastern part of the city, within the group of eastern districts, along the Bolina river.

Janów-Nikiszowiec
Janów-Nikiszowiec · Frank Schulenburg
The place

Janów-Nikiszowiec is a district of Katowice, located in the eastern part of the city, within the group of eastern districts, along the Bolina river. It encompasses a significant portion of the former Gmina Janów, comprising: Janów, Kolonia Wysockiego, Nikiszowiec, Stawiska, and the Nowy Nikiszowiec housing estate, and in the past also the Amanda Colony and Huta Arnold.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Janów-Nikiszowiec

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Silesian Interurbans

    Silesian Trams is one of the largest tram systems in the world and the largest and longest tram system in Poland, located entirely within the Silesian Voivodeship. Started as a part of the German Empire in 1894, the system currently has 677 stops across 29 lines and serves the region’s population inhabited by more than two million people.

    2.5 km · tram system in the Upper Silesian Conurbation in Poland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stadion Ludowy

    The Sosnowiec People's Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Sosnowiec, Poland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the training ground of Zagłębie Sosnowiec.

    3.9 km · football stadium in Sosnowiec, south Poland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Valley of Three Ponds

    The Valley of Three Ponds is a large park and wooded area in the southern part of the city of Katowice, Poland. The name comes from the existence of three large ponds in the park area.

    2.9 km · reservoir · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Galeria Szyb Wilson

    Szyb Wilson Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Katowice, Poland, located at 1 Oswobodzenia Street in the Janów-Nikiszowiec district. It was opened in 2001 in the revitalized building of the pithead and bathhouse of the Wilson shafts of the Wieczorek Coal Mine, whose history dates back to 1826.

    900 m · contemporary art gallery in Katowice, Poland · Wikipedia

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Getting to Janów-Nikiszowiec

Airports
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 26 km · Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 53 km · Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 93 km
Stations
Katowice-Muchowiec Airport, 3.8 km
  • Balice → Janów-Nikiszowiec
    53 km · quickest by road, 50 min · zł14–19
  • Łódź → Janów-Nikiszowiec
    172 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · zł48–65
  • Wrocław → Janów-Nikiszowiec
    174 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · zł43–60
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No local-transport research exists yet for Janów-Nikiszowiec

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Janów-Nikiszowiec. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

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    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

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    KorčulaHR

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    MljetHR

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    ZermattCH

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