About this route
Route overview
A day of Polish UNESCO underground heritage with a private chauffeur — Tarnowskie Gory, a UNESCO World Heritage town since 2017 (the only mining site from Poland on the list), with two underground complexes woven into one comfortable six-hour plan. Standard plan: 10:00 hotel pickup in Katowice, 10:45 Tarnowskie Gory (35 km via A1 motorway and DK11, 45 min). The UNESCO Historic Silver Mine — a 19th-century complex of silver, lead and zinc ore worked from 1530 to 1922, the visit takes 2.5 h with a licensed guide: descent 40 m by lift to the underground, the main adit with transport tunnels, 19th-century lead and silver exhibits, original miner tools, an exhibition on the history of mining, a boat trip underground across still mine water (a 1.2 km boat route with lanterns in semi-darkness — the most spectacular part of the visit, a medieval atmosphere), lift back to the surface. 13:30 lunch at Karczma Tarnogorska (Silesian cuisine, Silesian sour rye soup, red cabbage, Silesian dumplings). 14:30 transfer to the Black Trout Adit (3 km, 7 min) — the second UNESCO complex in Tarnowskie Gory, an 18th-19th-century drainage adit (length 600 m), the visit takes 1.5 h: descent by stairs into the adit, boat trip on the underground river through 600 m of corridors (the longest underground tourist boat route in Poland). 16:30 return to Katowice (35 km via A1, 35 min). EUR 450 Mercedes E-Class. The service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if pickup is at KTW.