Katowice is a Silesian city located in the southern parts of Poland, overlooking Rivers Rawa and Klodnica. Ever since 1999, the city had played a vital role in local administration, as the capital of Katowice Voivodeship.
Silesian people originally inhabited Katowice mainland as the native tribal groups. Here, the first imperial rule started with the dynasty of Polish Silesian Piasts. Presently, the city is resided by people of all nationalities like Polish, Jews, and Germans. Together with extensive foreign invasions and political upheavals and unrest, Katowice ultimately declared a Republic with autonomous powers, at a much later stage.
Katowice is located at a considerable elevation in Katowice Mountains, with a number of rivers draining the mainland areas with numerous tributaries and distributaries. The soil is thus made rich and ideal for agricultural activities, through extensive deposition of fertile alluvial soils.
Katowice in Poland experiences continental humid climatic conditions with an average temperature of 17 degrees Celsius. The annual average rainfall is 750 mm approximately, occurring mostly in the month of July. In fact, rainfall is uniformly distributed in all the districts of Katowice.
The diverse and enriched cultural background of Katowice on the Polish Mainland is vividly reflected not only through the presence of art museums, music centers, cinema halls, and other forms of architecture, but is also evident from activities like film shows, painting exhibitions, theaters, and musical performances. All these contribute adequately to attracting numerous foreign visitors to Katowice, to support the development of travel and tourism activities in the nation. In fact, the promotion of extensive tourist activities on the land offers support to the national economy to a considerable extent.