Attractions

The BWA Bielsko Gallery is a municipal gallery promoting the most interesting phenomena of modern art – from painting through photography, performance, installation to new media art.

It organises exhibitions, festivals and public space events, runs publishing, educational and documentary activities, collects works of art. According to its programme, the Gallery promotes painting as the field of art of everlasting and universal value, which has lately been forced on the defensive by the new media.

The Museum of Bielsko-Biała has its seat at the Sułkowskis’ Castle. The first museum was opened on 19th December 1902 on the initiative of the self-government authorities of Bielsko and the Galician Biała. The founder of the Town’s Museum was the teacher of one of the middle schools in Bielsko, Erwin Hanslik.

Dębowiec is a summit in the Beskid Śląski mountains of the height of 686 m above sea level. The clearing under the summit offers a panoramic view of Bielsko-Biała and Magurka Wilkowicka mountain. The upper part of the clearing houses a mountain shelter. At the slopes of Dębowiec there is a ski lift and in 2001 the ‘Sunny Clearing’ recreational alpine slide was provided. The slide is 410 m long and the lift 115 m long, both fully illuminated. In winter the chute is heated.

The Szyndzielnia Cableway was put into operation in December 1953. The length of the route is 1,810 m, height difference – 450 m and run time – 6 minutes. Szyndzielnia (1,028 m above sea level) is a summit in the Beskid Śląski mountains north to Klimczok, located between the valleys of Olszówka, Wapienica and Białka. Just before the summit, at the height of 1,001 m above sea level a mountain tourist shelter built in 1897 is located.

The centre is located in an attractive part of Bielsko-Biała, namely in the Bielsko Commons.
The structure of the line park provides fun for people ranging from 5 to 90 years of age, regardless of their physical fitness.

Teatr Polski (the Polish Theatre) was established in 1890. It is housed in a historic building in the centre of the town in the historic Lower Suburbs District, at 1 Maja Street.

The Banialuka Puppet Theatre is one of the oldest puppet theatres in Poland and one of the best known in Poland and abroad. It was established in 1947 by visual artists Jerzy Zitzman and Zenobiusz Zwolski.

The Town Hall was built in the years 1895–1897 in neo-Renaissance style. Earlier in that place farm animal markets used to be organised, thus, the old name of the Town Hall Square was Swine Square. The building consists of three storeys and the characteristic tower – a symbol of independent authorities. This is an over 50 m high clock tower with a viewing gallery. Today, the Town Hall building is a seat of the President of the Town, the Town Office and the Town Council.

The Art Nouveau house is located at Targowa Street. It was built around 1905 and provided with a beautiful facade imitating a post-and-beam house, bay windows over the entrances, a large tower and characteristic sculptures of two frogs over the portal.

The church was built in classical style according to the design of Breuning in the years 1782–1788. It was placed on site of a former Lutheran cemetery.
It was the first protestant church in Galicja. The furnishing of the church has been very well preserved. A real pride is the pipe organ dating back to 1848, made in the workshop of Karol Kuttler in Opava. The organ consists of 1,550 pipes and moving figures and has been deemed to be a monument of the European class.

The St. Stanislaus Church in the Old Bielsko belongs to the oldest sacred monuments in Bielsko-Biała.
It was built and furnished to Gothic style in the years 1380–1390. An extremely valuable is the main altar in the chancel, in the form of a triptych, devoted to the patron saint of the church – St. Stanislaus. The wings of the altar are movable. The middle scene features Our Lady with the Child on her arm surrounded by saint bishops Nicholas and Stanislaus.