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New music event
OFF Festival is an alternative music festival series held annually since 2006. Until 2009 it was held at Słupna Park in Mysłowice, Poland in August and lasts four days. OFF Festival from 2010 takes place in Katowice in Dolina Trzech Stawow.
The market place, pedestrianised but criss-crossed by trams. It's frankly drab, though the communist buildings are being replaced by modern structures. They've taken up the Kraków tradition of sounding the Hejnał at noon, a five-note bugle call, which in medieval times was the signal to open the city gates at dawn.
Small permanent display of local history plus exhibitions.
Muzeum Organów Śląskich
Part of the University Dept of Music, these pipe organs have been collected or cannibalised from around the region. Hours erratic, and you need to be here when an organist plays them.
Archikatedra Chrystusa Króla
Built from 1927, but the war intervened and it was only finished in 1955. It's in brick, but faced with sandstone. The interior is fairly plain.
Small church museum with religious artwork.
Kościół pw Niepokalanego Poczęcia NMP
Sturdy neogothic church, framed by the view down Mariacka. Mass in English is 14:30 Sunday.