Gorlice is a nearly 26,000-strong town in Malopolska province located on the northern border of the Beskid Niski in the valley of the Ropa and Sekowka rivers. It is a beautifully located town with an unusually rich history. Due to the pharmacist and entrepreneur associated with the city and the inventor of the kerosene lamp, Ignacy Lukasiewicz, it is called the city of light.
There are many interesting attractions and tourist trails in Gorlice. Particularly noteworthy are Gorlice's market square, town hall and the Ignacy Lukasiewicz PTTK Regional Museum with collections related to the history of the city. There you can also see a chapel with a statue of Sorrowful Jesus indicating the exact place where the first street kerosene lamp was lit for the first time in the world, in 1854. Also worth a visit is the Open Air Museum of Oil Industry "Magdalena" located on the site of a former oil mine. Gorlice is also home to numerous cemeteries, especially from World War I, as it was in this area that intense fighting took place in 1915, which on May 2 allowed the Russian front to break through and significantly changed the course of the war.
Gorlice can be reached by both train and bus from the largest cities of Malopolska and Podkarpacie, but also from nearby smaller towns. International bus services to many European cities, including Germany, France and Italy, also stop at the PKS station. On the other hand, a train between Kraków and Zagórz passes through the Gorlice Zagórzany station.
.Bielefeld is a city of more than 300,000 people located in the northeastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is an important center of science, culture and industry.
The center of the city is the market square, surrounded by beautiful townhouses, and the biggest attraction is Sparrenburg Castle, located on the slopes of the Teutoburg Forest, which dates back to the Middle Ages and features a distinctive high tower. Visitors have access to underground passageways with a total length of 285 meters. Bielefeld has a botanical garden famous for its azaleas and rhododendrons and Westphalia's oldest open-air museum. The city's contemporary art gallery, housed in a modernist building from the 1960s, is worth a visit. While in Bielefeld, you can also go to the Dr. Oetker museum telling the story of this well-known brand - one of Germany's most popular food companies, still headquartered in Bielefeld today.
.There is an expressway running through Bielefeld that lies on the B61 national road, and the A2 highway connecting the Ruhr area and Berlin passes by. The city is an important railroad junction on the Hanover-Dortmund line. Our buses stop near the Brackwede train station located in the southwestern part of Bielefeld. The city center is about 15 minutes away by public transportation.
In Bielefeld, you can get around by light rail, or underground streetcars, which travel to the surface in the districts farther from the center. This transportation is supplemented by buses and city bicycles.
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