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Bytom
City in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Bytom

Bytom is a city in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland.

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Located in the Silesian Voivodeship, the city is 7 km (4 mi) northwest of Katowice, the regional capital.

Get in

Getting to Bytom

Katowice-Pyrzowice airport (KTW IATA) is 24 km north of Bytom. It has domestic and European flights plus holiday destinations around the Med & Red, plus the Gulf States. Take the local bus into Katowice and change, there's no direct transport to Bytom. Kraków John-Paul II Airport (KRK IATA) 80 km east has a far greater range of flights. Take the train or Bus 300 into Kraków and change for Katowice.

See

Worth seeing

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    Upper Silesian Museum
  2. 02
    Rynek is

    It's traffic free and pleasant enough, but with slabby buildings and you won't mistake it for Kraków.

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    Church of the Holy Ghost
Do

Things to do

Cinema City is within Agora shopping centre, a block west of Market Square.

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    Silesian Opera
Eat

Where to eat

Around Market Square are Wagon Pizza, Włoska Robota Ristorante, Pizzeria Sycylia and W Lufcie. Agora shopping centre and Dworcowa south to the station have Li Long, Sapori Divini, Ważne Miejsce and Pod Czaplą.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.