Poland's Little Vienna is ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING 🇵🇱 Bielsko-Biala is a MUST VISIT!

I have heard about this unique Polish city on the White river for sometime - a beautiful city nestled near the Czechia and Slovakian borders where the famous Vienna-Lvov road one traveled. Once this was an area of two separate cities Bielsko and Biala. In the 1950s, they became one.

Join me on this walking tour and travel vlog as we get thrown into city streets and homes that are right out of Vienna, Prague, and Budapest. With amazing Art Nouveau designs on what feels like every street corner, this area is a wonderful place to explore even when the temperatures are approaching forty.

Let me know what you think in the comments. Have you planned to visit this city? If so, did I give you some ideas on places to see and things to do?

Part 1 of 2.

00:00 Train Station
00:40 Maja - Buildings and wedding dresses
02:09 Cechowa
04:50 Listopada
05:45 Pomnik Reksia
08:10 Plac Wojska Polskiego and Frog House
10:44 walk to Roman Catholic Church of Divine Providence
12:15 Church of Divine Providence
14:12 Księdza Stanisława Stojałowskiego, Town Hall
15:50 Pomnik Baltazara Gąbki
17:01 Zapiekanka
18:50 Plac Bolesława Chrobrego
21:02 Rynek
22:35 Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Bielsko-Biała
24:06 Walk back to Teatr Polski

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[Magss]

LOVE IT! I WAS BORN IN BIELSKO BIALA, lived there for 14 years, now i live in ireland. BB will always be my home, love going back whenever i can!The building you showed at 11:47 - is my home where i grew up, my nanny lives there now

[stevecarey]

I lived in BB from 2014 to 2019. Beautiful city with so many attractions. I still have a house there which we visit every summer for a month. Really nice video and also great to see another foreigner enjoy BB.

[MarkS-jv]

Hey Jonathan, wow this place is a gem! Thanks for taking us on this beautiful virtual tour of Bielsko-Biala. Need to add this to my list of places to visit in Poland.
When will you be back in Poland? I'm sure you're already missing it! Take care and looking forwarding to your next vlogs.
-Mark from FLA USA

[Helvett]

Great city, a combination of old and new plus lots of recreational areas. The city also has a modern municipal stadium

[mrybinski]

Visit Pszczyna. It's only 20 minutes by train. Beautiful town

[martinjohnson]

Wow, I'm polish, I'm an architecture fanatic and didn't know there are so many streets with art nuveau buildings there.

[jakubosiejewski]

Bielsko-Biała is Poland's capital of cartoons, a lot of PRL movies and shows were there, I'm surprised you haven't heard of the animation museum in the city

[shaftr]

@6:00 All these characters were created by the Bielsko Cartoon Studio and are very famous among many generations of Poles.

[andyceeb]

Thank you for visiting my lovely city.

[centralna.poczta]

Miło było zobaczyć moje miasto Bielsko-Biała..
Bielsko - Biała pierwotnie składało się z dwóch niezależnych miast które zostały połączone
Dlatego jest tam kilka rynków głównych, ( dolny i górny) oraz architektura na którą zwróciłeś uwagę..
pozdrawiam

[nonperson]

1. These wedding dresses that you see are a sign - the stars say that you will soon meet the chosen one of your heart 😉
2. You didn't say hello to the frogs, you didn't hand wave, you didn't talk 😔
3. 15:49 This white bear came to Bielsko-Biała from Białystok, you may have met him before 🤔
4. 16:07 It's Baltazar Gąbka (Baltazar Sponge) and Smok Wawelski (Wawel Dragon from Krakow), characters from a famous Polish cartoon. The Dragon is a somewhat wise detective and the guy standing farther away is the Spy who follows them and constantly interferes 😅
5. What, was it your first time eating a zapiekanka ?!!! You lived in Krakow and apparently Krakow has the best zapiekanka 🤔
6. One of the most beautiful spots in Bielsko-Biała - the theatre, the post office building and the castle, all next to each other 🥰😍🥰

[aleksanderkorecki]

My grandmother was born in Bielsko, while it was still Bielsko and Biała and her brother was born a few years later in Bielsko-Biała.

[barbac]

Jonathan, I wonder why you are surprised that Polish cities are beautiful and look like the ones in Austria or Chechia? Poland is Central Europe for ages so why our cities are to look differently? Maybe you had in mind the past days where there were only photos of grey buidfings in Warsaw built in commumist times? I think you know that Warsaw was ruined to the grounds during WW2 and the Old Town had to be rebuit with great effort of the whole nation. Presently Warsaw is also beautiful, green thanks to its parks and a very modern dinamically developing city. I'm glad you liked B-B, I saw you also visited Wrocław
I hope you enjoyed your trip to Poland. Greetings from Krakow

[Kretek]

Hi mate. Are you planning to visit city of Zamosc maybe? Its not a big city, but old town and its surrondings are really beautiful. Especially after restoration of old fortifications. Check it out, I think you could like it.

[T_Witek_T]

These characters are not from the same show, but from the same studio (studio filmów rysunkowych). There are few more statues from another shows in the city.

[dakra]

If you are still in Bielsko-Biała, I recommend visiting Cieszyn, a city divided by the Polish-Czech border.

[vichael]

I thought this city was really ugly when I went there honestly, but i only saw parts of it

[diesel]

O ironio dzięki Amerykaniowi poznam nieznany mi Sląsk i południe Polski😮

[utahdan]

From 13 century to 1918 Bielsko /not Biała / was under Czech Kingdom and later Austrian Hapsburg Monarchy. That’s why it reminds Vienna. All architecture is from that period. Biała was in Poland, included to Austria after a first partition of Poland. There’s a significant difference between two towns in architecture. They were connected in one city around 1952, 3 or so.

[perkunlitewski]

36 degrees is a punishment for cutting off grass!
😂