Katowice

Another is already on the drawing boards. A new terminal at Katowice-Pyrzowice Airport has been open only six weeks, but airport officials are already taking about adding another one.

Deck chair, sand between toes, cool drink in hand ? plus the rumble of streetcars and the roar of car engines.

Zabrze officials are trying to get two Silesian coal mines on UNESCO's World Heritage List. It's not as preposterous as it seems.

This year's Katowice Metal Hammer Festival in Spodek Hall promises a feast for heavy metal fans, bringing together artists from all around the world and a range of genres.

A chute, wooden ladders, swings and a sand box ? a whole new modern playground was built in Ruda Slaska thanks to the efforts of Americans from Alabama.

State-owned Polish State Railways, or PKP, wants to renovate the central station in Katowice, the Silesian capital 80 kilometers from Krakow, with the help of outside investors. It will choose the prime contractor for the 300-mln-euro project in January of 2008, according to the Katowice edition of the daily Gazeta Wyborcza.

Klepok, a wooden bird on two wheels, is one of the most recognizable traditional toys in Beskidy. It represents the Beskidy Highlander Week of Culture (TKB), said to be one of the oldest and biggest folk festivals in Poland, possibly even Europe.

Homes built for miners and industrial workers in the 19th and 20th centuries are a distinctive feature of cities in Upper Silesia.

Last week, the first roller coaster in Poland opened at the Chorzow Amusement Park, in Chorzow, a city situated 80 kilometers from Krakow, in southern Poland, reported Dziennik Zachodni.