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Katowice District in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Szopienice-Burowiec

Szopienice-Burowiec is a district of Katowice, Poland, located in the north-eastern part of the city.

Szopienice-Burowiec
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The place

Szopienice-Burowiec is a district of Katowice, Poland, located in the north-eastern part of the city. It has an area of 8.47 km2 and in 2007 had 17,139 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Szopienice-Burowiec

10 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.

    1.5 km · tram system in the Upper Silesian Conurbation in Poland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Sosnowiec

    The Diocese of Sosnowiec is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Sosnowiec in the ecclesiastical province of Częstochowa in Poland. As of 2013 weekly Sunday mass attendance was 27.5%, up from 27.4% in the previous year.

    3.5 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Silesian Museum in Katowice

    Silesian Museum in Katowice is a museum in the city of Katowice, Poland.

    3.6 km · museum in Katowice, Poland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sosnowiec

    The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary also called Sosnowiec Cathedral is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the city of Sosnowiec in the European country of Poland. It is eclectic church built in 1899, on the plan of a Latin cross basilica type.

    3.4 km · church building in Sosnowiec, Poland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1.7 km · football stadium in Sosnowiec, south Poland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Franz Schöen's Palace

    Franz Schön's Palace called also New Schön's Palace or Oskar Schön's Palace – one of the two residences of the Schöen family, located on the merger of the districts and, at the time of its creation, the settlement: Ostra-Gorka and Sielec, on the left bank of the Black Przemsza River. The palace is located in the center of Sosnowiec.

    3.9 km · Palace in Sosnowiec city in Poland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Stephen's Church

    The Kościół św. Szczepana or Saint Stephen's Church is a church in Katowice, Silesian Voivodship, Poland.

    3.2 km · church building in Katowice, Poland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Orthodox Church of the Holy Virgin, Hope, Luby and their mother Zofia (Sosnowiec)

    The Orthodox Church of Sts. Vera, Hope, Loy and the mother of their Zofia in Sosnowiec – the only one existing of the three Orthodox Orthodox churches in Sosnowiec.

    3.4 km · Orthodox church in Poland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    3.8 km · reservoir · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    The Scientific Information Center and Academic Library

    The Scientific Information Center and Academic Library is a joint scientific library of two universities in Katowice - the University of Silesia in Katowice and the University of Economics in Katowice. It is located in the heart of the university campus, in the center of the Silesian agglomeration.

    3.9 km · academic library in Silesia (Katowice, Poland) · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Szopienice-Burowiec

Airports
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 23 km · Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 54 km · Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 94 km
Stations
Sosnowiec Główny, 3.2 km
  • Balice → Szopienice-Burowiec
    54 km · quickest by road, 55 min · zł16–21
  • Łódź → Szopienice-Burowiec
    169 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · zł46–60
  • Wrocław → Szopienice-Burowiec
    172 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · zł43–60
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Szopienice-Burowiec

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 Szopienice-Burowiec. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    770 km
  2. 02
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    813 km
  3. 03
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    826 km
  4. 04
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    846 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    963 km

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Around it

Next door to Szopienice-Burowiec

  • Bogucicedistrict of the city of Katowice in southern Poland3.2 km
  • Dąbrówka Maładistrict of the city of Katowice in southern Poland900 m
  • Janów-Nikiszowiecdistrict of the city of Katowice in southern Poland2.8 km
  • Zawodziedistrict of the city of Katowice in southern Poland3 km