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Medieval tunnels, legendary underground of castles, abandoned mines and second-century bunkers - Lower Silesia has been hosting various secrets for centuries. Are you ready for the surprises, Dear Adventurer?
Lower Silesia is a region with an extremely rich history, dating from pre-medieval times. The influences of many cultures clashed here, they waged numerous wars, changed rulers. Mountainous terrain, swamps, and impassable forests hide more military and fortified buildings in than in any other parts of Poland. Castles, fortresses, shelters and mysterious, not fully discovered underground impress with architecture, but also an amazing history. Today, underground routes are one of the region’s landmarks, attracting crowds of tourists every year.
The Route of Mysterious Undergrounds is created by 11 unusual objects:
Uranium mine in Kletno
The Uranium Mine in Kletno is a magical place. The route is marked by colorful occurrences of local minerals such as fluorite, amethyst, malachite or barite. Visiting the labyrinth of colorful corridors, you will get acquainted with the 600-year history of mining in Kletno, and thanks to a special exhibition you will move in time and take a prehistoric journey depicting the last 500 million years of evolution against the geological history of the Śnieżnik Massif.
Kletno 40 57-550 Stronie Śląskie Tel.601-889-243 www.kletno.pl kontakt@kletno.pl,
Gold Mine in Złoty Stok
Underground Tourist Route The Gold Mine was founded in 1996. Few extremely interesting tunnels: Gertrude’s Drift, Sztolnia Czarna Górna with the only underground waterfall in Poland (8 m high), and Sztolnia Czarny Dolna from where the Orange Tram leaves, are finally available for sightseeing. A fairytale world (gnome, a crazy alchemist and the figure of a miner) created underground and an extraordinary way of guiding make you want to return to the Gold Mine. Every year new attractions await tourists.
Złota 7 57-250 Złoty Stok Booking: +48 74 817 55 08 Office: +48 74 817 55 74 e-mail: biuro@kopalniazlota.pl www.kopalniazlota.pl
Kłodzko Fortress
Kłodzko Fortress is one of the best preserved defense architecture objects of the 18th century. Powerful, towering over Kłodzko, the fortification visible from almost every part of the city attracts tourists from Poland and from abroad. From the bastions towering over Kłodzko, you can admire the panorama of the city and the mountains surrounding the Kłodzko region. In addition to the upper part of the fortress, you can visit the underground called mazes. The route covers over a kilometer of underground corridors extending under the Fortress’s battlefield.
Grodzisko 1, 57-300 Kłodzko +48 74 867 34 68 twierdza@twierdza.klodzko.pl www.twierdza.klodzko.pl www.facebook.com/TwierdzaKlodzko
Underground Tourist Route in Kłodzko
Underground corridors and tunnels under the city streets were hollowed out from the 13th to the 17th century for storage purposes. The chambers had a depth of up to 30 meters, and the low temperature allowed for long-term freshness of food products. Thanks to this, they gained fame not only in the nearest area but also along the Amber Route. In the Kłodzko cellar, the famous Kłodzko beer was also rested. During the wars, the underground chambers were used as defensive shelters. The route is about 600 meters long and is one of the most interesting in Poland.
The visit is accompanied by the sounds of the old town (the bustle of the fair, middle-class music, feasts in the former tavern), and the sounds of battle. You can meet animated rats that react dynamically to the movement of passing people. You can see mannequins of life size in epochal costumes, exhibits depicting the life of the former citizens of the city and the manner of managing the basements under their houses as well as stylized boards referring to the forms of penalties in the 16th and 18th centuries.
entrance pavilion – Zawiszy Czarnego, Kłodzko exit pavilion – Czeska, Kłodzko phone +48 74 873 64 77, mobile +48 519 409 181 biuro@podziemia.klodzko.pl https://www.podziemia.klodzko.pl/
Fortress Srebrna Góra
The Srebrna Góra fortress is one of the most important attractions in Lower Silesia. At the time of the uprising (1765 -1777) it belonged to the most modern fortifications of this type in Europe. The greatest admiration was aroused by the powerful Donjon, one of the most interesting fortifications of the modern era. You can visit the fortress with a guide in the historical Prussian uniform. The complex consists of six forts and several bastions. Its main core is a bastion complex with Donjon inside. This object had 151 fortress rooms (casemate), spread over three floors. Huge warehouses, wells, an armory, chapel, prison, hospital, bakery, brewery, craft workshops and a powder magazine made the fort completely independent and self-sufficient.
Fortress Srebrna Góra Sp. z o.o.
Kręta 4, 57-215 Srebrna Góra tel.74 818 00 99 e-mail:biuro@forty.pl www.forty.pl
Sztolnie Walimskie Complex Rzeczka “Riese”
From 1943, in the area of the Sowie Mountains, the Germans carried out extensive construction work under the code name Riese (Giant). The construction has not been completed, and its remnant is a series of objects shrouded in mystery. There are some hypotheses that it could have been the construction of underground reinforcement factories or quarters for the Supreme Command of the Third Reich. The 500-meter underground tourist route has been enriched with audiovisual effects referring to the times of the Second World War and the work carried out while drilling the corridors.
Sztolnie Walimskie Riese 3-go Maja 26, 58-320 Walim, Góry Sowie. GPS: 50°41’18.4″N , 16°26’42.2″E e-mail: biuro@sztolnie.pl www.sztolnie.pl facebook.com/SztolnieRiese tel.: 74 84 57 300
Underground City of Osówka
A war object, built under the code name Riese in the Sowie Mountains by the Third German Reich in 1943-45. For a really short time almost 2 km of underground corridors, halls and pavements were made. You can see guardhouse, technical corridor and a huge hall about 10 m high and many buildings on the surface of the earth. According to one of the hypotheses, the Germans planned to deploy scientists working on the wunderwafe and the prototype of the atomic bomb here. Another says that the area has a “golden train” and trucks with gold of Wroclaw.
Underground City of Osówka (Podziemne Miasto Osówka)
Świerkowa, Sierpnica, 58-340 Głuszyca tel. +48 74 845 62 20 biuro@osowka.pl www.osowka.pl
The Old Mine Science and Art Center in Wałbrzych
The Old Mine in Wałbrzych is a former hard coal mine with an underground tourist route, which consists of a network of adits and underground walkways. On the site of a former mining plant, visitors will learn about the entire process and history of coal mining in this area. During the tour of the underground, tourists are guided by former miners – nowadays guides who talk about customs, anecdotes and working conditions. The tour includes an approach to the coal face, passage through adits and walkways presenting individual work stations and mining techniques. The industrial monument that is today the Old Mine, together with the above-ground part, is a popular tourist attraction of the region, attracting visitors from Poland and around the world. Those interested in mining, industrial and cultural heritage will find a place for themselves here. In 2022, Stara Kopalnia (Old Mine) was awarded the certificate of the Best Tourist Product of Poland.
Stara Kopalnia w Wałbrzychu (The Old Mine in Wałbrzych)
Wysockiego 29, 58-304 Wałbrzych phone +48 74 667 09 00 marketing@starakopalnia.pl www.starakopalnia.pl
Geopark in Krobica – In the footsteps of the former ore mining
Geopark – a tourist and educational trail In the footsteps of the former ore mining is an underground, 350-meter walk through two tunnels and 13 stations along an 8-kilometer ground route. You start the visit in the exhibition vestibule, from where you go to the excavation of the 18th-century adit of Saint. Leopold, with which the inter-level shaft reaches the 10-meter-high adit of the Saint. Jan, where you can see the preserved remains of mining tin ore excavations. This is the only object of this type and preserved in its original shape in Poland and Europe.
Currently there are works undertaken to enlarge the educational trail for further mining sites, through the areas of Świeradów-Zdrój to Nový Mest in the Czech Republic. In the following years, it is planned to launch an open-air ethnographic museum with operating former mining equipment such as: watermaking, crusher, blast furnace.
Underground Tourist Route St. Jan Mine in Krobica Krobica 90, 59-630 Mirsk Tel. 451 523 200
biuro@kopalniakrobica.pl www.kopalniakrobica.pl
The place is open daily from 10.00 to 18.00 from May up to October, during winter season route is open from 10:00 to 17:00
Undergrounds of Książ Castle
Adits near Książ built as part of the Riese Project in 1944-1945. To this day we do not know what their purpose was. Built by prisoners of the nearby German concentration camp Gross Rosen. The underground tourist route is a half-kilometer long section that intrigues with its diverse structure, both in terms of geology and history. During the tour, tourists will learn about, among others: the secrets of the Książ undergrounds, theories about the purpose of their creation and the tragic story of the prisoners whose hands these tunnels were drilled. The route is enriched with a special multimedia track with audiovisual effects.
Underground of Książ Castle street Piastów Śląskich 1, Wałbrzych tel. 74 66 43 872, 74 66 43 834
www.ksiaz.walbrzych.pl
Open daily:
High season (April-October) Mon. – Fri. 9.00 – 17.00 Sat. – Sun. 9.00 – 18.00
Low season (November-March) Mon. – Fri. 10.00 – 15.00 Sat. – Sun. 10.00 – 16.00
Time Gates – Gates of Time in Jelenia Góra
The Time Gates underground is the only place where you will be able to travel in time and space, because for us time is a relative concept!
Come with us on a 900-year journey into the past and future of LOWER SILESIA and the Karkonosze Mountains. Find out what Polish professors Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski hid in Dewar vessels in 1883. Do lightning bolts create infinity sounds?
The largest Tesla coil in Poland will answer this question, and MILLION VOLT will transport you in time and space. Meet the Wanderers and, together with them, take a fascinating journey through the underground kingdom of the Liczyrzepa Mountain Spirit, the guardian of the legends of the Karkonosze Mountains.
Time Gates – Time Gates street Chełmońskiego 3, Jelenia Góra tel. 602 171 469 timegates.pl
Open daily 10:00 – 17:00
Underground Tourist Route “Arado Project”
This is the only underground tourist attraction in Poland, where tourists play the role of Polish intelligence agents. This is not an ordinary trip. The guide is a trained “Cichociemny”! The tourists’ task is to photograph the object and steal the last secret of the Third Reich! Innovative light illumination, German guards on the route and the largest collection of military items from World War II in the region. Unique exhibits in Europe – parts of the V1 flying bomb, V2 rocket, remains of the ENIGMA encryption machine and… Military Secret!
Project Arado – Hitler’s lost laboratory street Lubawska 1a, 58-400 Kamienna Góra
projektarado.pl
Opening hours: During the winter season from November 15 to April 15: Monday to Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00, last entry 16:20 During the summer season from April 16 to November 14: Monday to Sunday: 10:00 – 18:00, last entry 17:20
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Explore a place associated with mining for 600 years
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Ślęża is for many tourists a cult mountain for Sunday and weekend excursions. This place has intrigued man for at least six and a half thousand years. It is from this period that the oldest artifacts of human presence in this area come from, incl. sculptures and stone buildings. What secrets does this ancient mountain hide?
Kłodzko is one of the oldest towns of Lower Silesia, located in a picturesque Kłodzko Valley on the Nysa Kłodzka River and its tributaries. Beautiful landscapes, rocky mountain slopes, woods, rapid streams and in the middle of it all, a small charming town, the only place of its kind for the people who cherish silence, peace and want to escape the hustle and bustle of large cities.
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