Visual present in the capital of the coal

A miror of the past, the remins of the iron era.

Here some pictures of Katowice, the capital of the Polish region of Silesia. This region was not always Poland, it has been Poland less than a hundred years. People from Silesia are also said to be very proud of their region. And it's not about a critic, it's about a landscape with without doubt is often astonishing for the eyes of a foreigner. In this visual chapter about images of the not best known Katowice the few (but big and centric) modern buildings and the larger mothern infrastructures don't appear. This chapter is reserved to the elements of the past which remain in the new EU-Poland, the best example of it are the railway lines, the trains, the iron transportation, which was and is still basic to one of the main reasons of the existance of this big industrial urban metropolis: the coal. Katowice and Silesia have also the atmosphere of the working-class area, which reminds of the unexistance of middle class for decades in that area of the world.

Barriers

Private road

Colour between grey

Big boys conversation

Dirty play