The best road cycling routes around Bestwina

Next to the stairs leading to the dam, there is a small path that you can ride up. Watch out for the curb at the beginning of the stairs :)

The Volunteer Fire Department in Zasole (Brzeszcze municipality) was founded in 1954. In 2024, the unit solemnly celebrated its 70th anniversary.

beautifully located wooden church from the 16th century.

From a tourist point of view, the dam is three kilometers of a straight as an arrow, smooth, asphalt path running along the crown of the entire structure. It is precisely thanks to this smooth asphalt and the nice views that it has become a place of recreation for many residents of Zabrze, Goczałkowice, Pszczyna, and even more distant towns in the Pszczyna and Bielsko districts. Runners and inline skaters dominate here, there are many walkers, but there is no shortage of cyclists either. The lake itself, although artificially created in the 1950s, resembles a natural lake, so the views from the dam are nice.

"The most beautiful railway station in Poland" may be an exaggeration, but the station building is worth noting, as it's an example of skillfully adapted to modern needs and an exception to the fairly common trend until recently of such buildings first falling into disrepair because no one cares about them, and then being demolished. The Goczałkowice Zdrój stop itself is a convenient starting or ending point for a trip to Lake Goczałkowickie or the Vistula Cycle Route. Especially since there's a restaurant by the nearby pond and two or three others in the nearby spa park – though admittedly, these aren't exactly high-class establishments (with the possible exception of "Kogut i Kurki," where both the interior and the menu are decent). And while waiting for your train, weather permitting, you can admire the sunset colors of the sky and their reflection in the pond.

There are usually a lot of people walking and running on the dam.

The interior is dominated by a flat ceiling with traces of Renaissance coffers, below which there is also a Renaissance frieze. Read more here: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82_%C5%9Bw._Andrzeja_w_Osieku_%28nieu%C5%BCytkowany%29

The church is oriented, built of log construction, except for the tower, which has a post-and-beam structure. The polygonal chancel is located in the eastern part of the church, and the sacristy adjoins it to the north. The nave, wider and higher than the chancel, is built on a roughly square plan. The entire structure is covered by a shingled, double-ridged roof, which is more characteristic of wooden churches of the Silesian type than those of Lesser Poland. At the eastern edge of the roof above the nave is an onion-shaped bell tower. Located in the western part of the church, the tower has sloping walls, a saddle-shaped roof protrudes from its central section, a porch at the top, and a pyramidal dome, formerly spire-shaped, with four accompanying corner turrets, above it.