Piekary Śląskie is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. One of the core cities of the Metropolis GZM – metropolis with the population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river.
Image: Piekary Śląskie Basilica of St Mary and St Bartholome 01
Image: Piekary Śląskie Kościół Zmartwychwstania Pańskiego 01
Image: 010 Centrum, Piekary Slaskie, Poland
Bytomska Street, the main street of the city
The Metropolis GZM is a metropolitan unit composed of 41 contiguous municipalities in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland. The seat of the metropolitan council is Katowice, the largest city of the region and the voivodeship capital. With a population of over 2 million, the core of the Metropolis GZM is one of the largest urban areas in the European Union. The area of the metropolis largely coincides with the metropolitan area of the Katowice urban area, which is a part of the wider polycentric transnational Upper Silesian-Moravian metropolitan area, the latter with a population of 5–5.3 million people.
Pesa Elf of Koleje Śląskie in Katowice