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Where to Stay in Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship
The Gliwice Radio Tower stands over Gliwice in southern Poland, an Upper Silesian city on the Kłodnica with a restored old town and a market square.
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Gliwice keeps most of its beds around the market square in the restored old town, on the Kłodnica in southern Poland. The square holds the rooms. Near the Gliwice Town Hall and Gliwice Cathedral, the streets of the old town gather hotels within reach of Gliwice Castle and the market, and travellers who want the heart of the city at hand tend to settle here.
The old town comes first. Out toward the western edge, the quarter below the Gliwice Radio Tower offers a quieter base. The tower marks the outskirts.
Around Villa Caro and the older residential streets, rooms sit away from the market square, often at a lower cost than those in the centre. The further from the square, the cheaper the rooms in Gliwice. Beyond the core, the wider districts of Gliwice spread cheaper rooms across Silesian Voivodeship, linked by tram and rail into the metropolis around Katowice.
About Gliwice
What is Gliwice known for?
Gliwice is known as an industrial city of Upper Silesia on the Kłodnica in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. A wooden tower marks it out. The Gliwice Radio Tower rises on the western edge, the Gliwice Town Hall and the market square hold the restored old town, and Gliwice Castle keeps the medieval core, while the casting works of the Museum in Gliwice recall the ironmaking that built the city.
Gliwice sits within the metropolis around Katowice.
What are the main landmarks in Gliwice?
Gliwice gathers its landmarks around the market square and out toward the western edge. The old town holds the core. Gliwice Castle and the Gliwice Town Hall stand by the market square, Gliwice Cathedral rises over the centre, the Gliwice Radio Tower marks the western outskirts, and Villa Caro and the casting works of the Museum in Gliwice hold the story of the industrial city.
What is the history of Gliwice?
Gliwice grew on the Kłodnica in Upper Silesia, in southern Poland, a medieval town that gathered around its castle and market square. Trade came first. Standing on the routes that crossed the Silesian Highlands, the town raised its walls and its churches, and Gliwice Castle marked the old seat of power above the river.
Merchants filled the market square and built the houses of the growing town. Later came coal and iron. The mines and foundries of Upper Silesia drew works to the Kłodnica, and Gliwice turned to ironmaking, its casting sheds sending goods far beyond the region.
Held in turn by the powers that ruled a shifting Central Europe, the town kept its old core through each change, its market square and its churches standing among the growing works. The tall Gliwice Radio Tower rose on the western edge. Rebuilt after war, Gliwice spread across the Kłodnica valley as a city of the metropolis around Katowice, its old town restored around the Gliwice Town Hall and the market square.
Where is Gliwice?
Gliwice lies on the Kłodnica in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland, in the Silesian Highlands. The river threads the city. Spread across the low ground of the highlands, Gliwice runs from the old market square out to the western edge below the Gliwice Radio Tower, its streets set on the coalfield plateau of Upper Silesia at the western reach of the metropolis around Katowice.
What is the climate of Gliwice?
Gliwice has a temperate climate on the Kłodnica in southern Poland. The seasons turn plainly. Cold grey winters settle over the market square and the Silesian Highlands, and warm summers follow across the Kłodnica valley, the low inland ground of Upper Silesia keeping the weather steady and moderate over the city through much of the year.
How do you get to Gliwice?
Gliwice is reached by rail and by road from across southern Poland. The lines feed the metropolis. Trains run into the city near the old town, and motorways cross at the western edge of Silesian Voivodeship, carrying traffic through the Kłodnica valley and into Gliwice from Katowice and the wider metropolis around it.
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Updated July 2026