Silesian Park
| Silesian Culture and Recreation Park | |
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 Japanese Garden within Silesian Central Park | |
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| Type | Urban park |
| Location | Katowice and Chorzów, Silesia, Poland[1] |
| Area | 620 hectares (1,532.1 acres) 6.2 square kilometres (2.4 sq mi)[2] |
| Created | 1950s/1960s |
| Status | Open all year |
| Website | www |
Silesian Park (Polish: Park Śląski) is a recreation complex in the center of the Upper-Silesian Metropolis at a border of Chorzów and Katowice in Silesia, Poland.[3]
Its formal name is "General Jerzy Ziętek Voivodeship Park of Culture and Recreation" (Wojewódzki Park Kultury i Wypoczynku im. gen. Jerzego Ziętka, abbreviated WPKiW), named after Jerzy Ziętek, a Silesian politician who headed the 1950s initiative to create this park. It restored an industrially devastated piece of land in the middle of a highly urbanized area. It is managed by WPKiW S.A..
The area of the park is 620 hectares. By comparison, it's almost twice as big as Central Park in New York.
In addition to the extensive green area, the following are located in the park:
- Silesian Stadium
- Silesian Zoological Garden
- Silesian Planetarium
- Silesian Amusement Park
- Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park
- Katowice International Fair Grounds
- Stadium of GKS Katowice
- Shooting range
- a swimming-pool complex
- a water sports center
- tennis courts
- the rose garden
- The Technical Progress Centre
- a hotel complex, the Polish Tourist' Society and the Polish Scouts' Association district centers, restaurants, cafés and show pavilions where flower shows and other exhibits are held.
Gallery
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The Dinosaurs Valley in Silesian Zoological Garden (reconstructions of prehistoric reptiles) -
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One of the many sculptures within Silesian Central Park -
External links
- (in Polish) Website Park
- (in Polish) Website Silesian Planetarium
- (in Polish) Gallery (photo)
Annotations
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2010-06-03.
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