CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Katowice it runs 200 km to Katowice; allow about 3 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and, Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, Birkenau and back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
Katowice is the capital of Upper Silesia, and for a century it was a place of coal and steel. The region's mines and furnaces made Poland industrial, and the city grew quickly in the nineteenth century from a village into a city of brick, smoke and railway lines. In recent decades much has changed. The mines have closed and a new city has grown from the old industrial land. The Silesian Museum is built into the shafts and buildings of a former colliery, and the concert hall of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra stands beside it, a bold block of red brick and glass. Nearby, the flying-saucer shape of the Spodek arena has been a landmark since the 1970s.
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Katowice is where the day begins. Next is Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
Upper Silesia is Poland's industrial heart, a densely built region of coal mines, steelworks, spoil heaps and tidy brick housing, and at its northern edge lies Tarnowskie Gory, a town of about sixty thousand people that grew up around silver, lead and zinc. The mine and its underground water system were inscribed by UNESCO in 2017, and the town's historic centre is about a kilometre from the entrance. Katowice, the regional capital, is some thirty kilometres to the south-east.
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Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and comes up 25 km in.
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50 km in you reach Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and. Next is Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
There is no right way to arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and no ride passes through it casually. This was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, built during the occupation of Poland near the town of Oświęcim, which the Germans called Auschwitz. Between 1940 and January 1945, at least 1.1 million people were murdered here, the vast majority of them Jews deported from across Europe, along with Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and many others. On 27 January 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated the camp, and that date is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day. UNESCO listed the site in 1979 as a memorial to the victims and a warning to humanity.
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Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati, about halfway. Next is Birkenau.
Birkenau is the second and largest part of the Auschwitz camp complex, built by the Nazi regime from 1941 on the flat land near Brzezinka, just outside Oświęcim in southern Poland. It is where most of the million or so people murdered at Auschwitz were killed, the great majority of them Jews. The camp was meant to be seen from the entrance, with the brick gatehouse and the railway line running straight through it, and that scale is the first thing that silences visitors. There is no softening it, and nobody who goes should expect to.
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Birkenau sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati.
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back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati comes up 125 km in. Next is back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
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150 km in you reach back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and.
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back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and, late in the day. Next is Katowice.
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The route ends here after 200 km.
Katowice → Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentrati → back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and is 68 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and → Katowice is 32 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.