My effort at inventing a meme

[fivemack]

[Poll #518148]

The counter-intuitive list above is the fifteen biggest cities (counting urban areas as cities, hence the top one ...) of the EU. All more than 2.6 million people. LJ won't let me list more than fifteen tickyboxes; the next few are Lisbon, Budapest, Munich, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Vienna, and that gets down to two million.

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[jvvw.livejournal.com]

Why haven't I heard of Katowice? It appears to be in Poland, but I feel moderately well travelled in Polan. I don't know how I can have missed it. Maybe because both times I went I had Polish speaking hosts to plan the travelling.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Katowice is down in Silesia, and I get the impression it's very much the heavy-industrial heartland of Poland. It's skipped over in a couple of pages by backpacking guides, and the online list of tourist attractions includes the railway station and the football stadium: I suspect brown-coal mines do not a tourist hotspot make.

[jvvw.livejournal.com]

That probably explains it. I have been to a few non-tourist hotspots in Poland for various reasons (such as a friend's wedding) but most of the places I have been were at least vaguely on the tourist agenda or at least surrounded by nice countryside.