Few cities in Europe can boast such a pace of development. Usually cities develop slowly, from small settlements, through organized villages and a city created in the Middle Ages with a market square, defensive walls, sometimes a castle next to it. You won't find anything like that in Katowice. This city transformed from a village into a metropolis in the blink of an eye.

Intensive development of industry in this area, which required a rapid inflow of investments and many employees, but also a peculiar case transformed the village of Katowice into a city. This happened relatively recently, only in 1865. Then Katowice developed at a pace similar to today's Dubai - the last village cottages were next to metropolitan tenement houses, just like concrete office buildings with glass skyscrapers today!

For the English and other English-speaking people, Katowice is most often a little-known city. When they think of tourist trips in Europe, there are many much more obvious destinations for them, such as Paris, Rome, Madrid, Berlin, and even Prague, Vienna or Krakow, which are closer to Katowice. Katowice is only just building its brand on the tourist map of Europe, although Silesia, as a whole, is incredibly interesting and worth visiting - you can find numerous castles, palaces, health resorts, mountains and beautiful cities with full infrastructure here. Katowice, as the heart of a 2.4 million metropolis, has much more to offer than you would expect from this post-industrial city.

More and more residents of the United States, as well as England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, have family ties or friendships with Silesians, thanks to which they know Katowice or have already visited it. This is due, among other things, to from the large emigration from Poland to English-speaking countries, which took place at the beginning of the 21st century, the consequence of which is visiting relatives or friends in Silesia. During such trips, Katowice, thanks to the international airport Katowice Airport, becomes a natural tourist base. It is also worth mentioning the very large Upper Silesian emigration in the 19th century, which established strong communities in the USA with their own towns and villages, preserving the Silesian language and customs overseas.

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