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St. Nicholas Cathedral

is the main Roman Catholic Church of the city of Bielsko-Biala, in the Silesian Voivodship, Poland.It overlooks the market square (Rynek).Originally founded between 1443 and 1447, it was almost completely rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century according to a design by Viennese architect Leopold Bauer.Another artist from Vienna, Rudolf Harflinger, designed the stained-glass windows.The city was in that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the crownland Silesia.In 1992, the church became the cathedral of the newly created dioceses of Bielsko and Zywiec.The tower rises 61 meters above the city and is a landmark for the surrounding area.

The Bielsko-Biala Museum

is a museum for the city of Bielsko-Biala, Poland located in the historical Bielsko Castle.Three local branches of the museum have been established since the 1970s: the Julian Falat Museum, the Museum of Technology and Textile Industry and the Weaver's House Museum.The Bielsko-Biala Museum, with its main location in the historical Bielsko Castle has maintained museum traditions conceived at the beginning of the 20th century, when the local government of Silesian Bielsko and Galician Biala founded two separate museums.The older Biala Municipal Museum was set up upon the initiative of Bielsko Gymnasium (lower secondary school) teacher Erwin Hanslik by virtue of the City Council Resolution of 19 December 1902.At the same time, in a forum of the City Council of neighbouring Bielsko, similar initiative was taken by Arthur Schmidt, a protestant vicar of that town.In the months that followed by his application in 1903 there was undertaken in Bielsko and its surroundings a splendid action of collecting artefacts of museum-value.Its outcome was shown in June 1903 at Bielsko Shooting Gallery at a display of local antiquities.A few months later Bielsko City Council called into being Municipal Museum in Bielsko.Some time passed however before both museum opened to the public.

Frog House

is an example of art nouveau architecture in the city of Bielsko-Biala, in southern Poland's Silesia Province.It features two frogs seated over the entrance, one smoking a pipe and the other playing a mandolin, while beetles roam freely over the walls.The Frog House stands on Bielsko-Biala's Polish Army Square (plac Wojska Polskiego).

Automobile Museum in Bielsko-Biala

is a Automobile museum run by the Automobile Club of Beskidzki, collecting antique cars and motorcycles.It is located in Bielsko-Biala, ul. Casimir the Great, the first.The museum was founded 11 November 2006, the the initiative of Jack Balicki, vice president for Automobile Beskidzki oldtimers, who became its director.Exhibits were placed in a converted former factory halls fruit.The museum is open every Saturday between 11.00 and 16.00. The tour is free donations collected spent on its maintenance.

International Festival of Puppetry Arts

is a theater festival held since 1966, the every two years in May in Bielsko-Biala.It organizes them Garbage Puppet Theatre. J. Zitzmana.In the 60s, 70s and 80 International Festival of Puppet Art in Europe was the only meeting place for theaters from East and West and the confrontation of European puppet theater with the theater world.Over the years, in Bielsko-Biala hosted artists, now forming a global history of puppet theater, including: Albrecht Roser, Eric Bass, Joan Baixas, Roman Paska, Richard Bradshaw, Josef Krofta with the famous theater Drak and Peter Schumann of The Bread and Puppet Theatre and many other authors.Widely presented and was promoted Polish puppetry.Since 1998, the bielski festival takes place in a contest.The festival is accompanied by an exhibition in BWA Gallery, Bielsko, presentations, outdoor, concerts, international teams the discussions in an open discussion panel Lalkarskiego POLUNIMA Polish Center and the whole procession begins colorful streets.

Beskid Culture Week

a festival of folklore takes place since 1964, the Every year in August, the Vistula, Zywiec, Szczyrk, Auschwitz and Makow Podhalanskie.It is organized by the Regional Cultural Centre in Bielsko-Biala.During the Beskid Culture Week in the six cities held concerts of Polish and foreign teams that present a wealth of original folk music, dance, singing, rituals and customs people and artists present their works and cultural organizations and institutions to achieve the conservation, documentation and popularization achievements of folk culture.The first edition of the Beskid Culture Week was held in 1964 the in the Vistula River but the festival dates back to pre-war traditions "Holy Mountains".In 2009, the at the festival there were 83 teams of Polish and 23 foreign (including from Brazil, Turkey, Ecuador, Croatia, India, Slovakia and Greece).

Nationwide Painting Competition "Bielsko Autumn"

organized since 1962, the by Bielska BWA Gallery of contemporary painting competition.Initially the competition was held annually in 1995, the changed its formula for the biennale.Has an open formula - does not impose a theme, problem, techniques or age of the participants.Artists participating in the contest send in the work of painting of the last two years of its creation.

September - February
April - June

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