Upper Silesia – or Górny Śląsk, the southeastern part of the historical region of Silesia – is one of Poland’s most distinct areas, with its own customs, language, identity and – obviously – its own ...

Powerful empires crumbled and many borders were redrawn. One of the most difficult conundrums addressed in Versailles was the matter of Upper Silesia, a mineral-rich region fought over by Poland and ...

Situated in Southern Poland, Upper Silesia is soaked in hundreds of years of mining tradition. Old workers’ neighbourhoods, through their architecture and use of local motifs, remind locals and ...