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This prettily landscaped park includes a good children's playground; Sokolnicki FORT Arts Center (https://fortevent.com), an events space based in a 19th…
Must-see attractions in Warsaw
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Founded in 1818, the Botanic Gardens covers 22.5 hectares in the northwest corner of Łazienki Park and contain a diverse collection of species ranging…
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Also known as Miła 18, the memorial mound and obelisk mark what was once a hidden shelter during the time of the Warsaw Ghetto, used by ŻOB, a Jewish…
St Michael & St Florian Cathedral
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Completed in 1904 to the design of Józef Dziekoński, this neo-Gothic-style cathedral has twin 75m spires that were deliberately built taller than the…
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There's a great view of the Old Town skyline from this popular beach on the east bank of the Vistula, close by the zoo. Several cafe-bars set up on the…
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Running for around 5km along the west bank of the Vistula between the Poniatowski and Gdańsk bridges, these boulevards have been brilliantly landscaped…
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Attached to a monastery of Benedictine nuns, this interesting 17th-century church is the work of prominent architect Tylman van Gameren. It has a fine…
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Although it's a little complicated to navigate and could do with a bit more in the way of English signage, this museum has a fine assembly of Polish folk…
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A refreshing break from history museums and churches, this quirky museum holds 25,000 original works by Polish and foreign caricaturists dating from the…
Archeology of Photography Foundation
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Since 2008 this foundation has sought to promote Polish photography by hosting exhibitions at its gallery, publishing books and holding workshops and…
Heritage Interpretation Centre
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At the end of WWII the Old Town was mostly piles of rubble. To gain a full appreciation of the mammoth and heroic effort needed to reconstruct the…
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Since 2001 Wojciech Fibak has been sharing his private collection of Polish modern and contemporary art at this small but packed gallery space. Among the…
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Created in the late 19th century, this attractively laid-out park includes quirky contemporary sculptures such as the giant metal Giraffe by Władysław…
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One of the most pleasant of Warsaw's natural urban beaches along the east bank of the Vistula. From the jetty here you can catch the seaonal, free ferry…
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Łazienki Park's mock-ruined amphitheatre was built in 1790 and is modelled on the Roman open-air theatre at Herculaneum, Italy. The stage, set on an islet…
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Central Warsaw's largest church, All Saints was dedicated in 1883. It was one of three churches captured within the ghetto. A monument of John Paul II…
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There's usually a new exhibition here every month, organised by the National Center for Culture to promote local artists. Some shows can be fairly out…
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Spanish artist Sebas Velasco's contribution to the street art of Praga is this giant nightscape of a youth in a hoodie. It was created in 2016 as part of…
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Climb the 148 steps of the bell tower of St Anne's Church to reach this viewing terrace providing superb panoramas over the Old Town and all around.
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Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic created this mural of a group of children playing around a globe-shaped climbing frame in 2015 as part of the Street…
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Irish artist Conor Harrington designed this giant mural of a couple of brawling gents in 18th-century frock coats and breeches.
Smoleńsk Air Disaster Monument
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Dubbed 'the stairway to heaven', this black granite monument commemorates the 2010 plane crash in Smolensk, in which 96 people died, including the then…
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Following the November Uprising of 1830, imperial Russia built this pentagonal brick fortress to enforce its power over Warsaw. It covers 36 hectares and,…
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Warsaw-born Agnieszka Osiecka (1936–97) is famous for her poetry, journalism and song writing (she penned over 2000 songs). She lived in Saska Kępa most…
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The official English name of this pretty and compact palace isn't entirely correct as it's roofed with copper and was one of the first such 17th-century…
Monument to Nicolaus Copernicus
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Standing in front of the Staszic Palace, which houses the Polish Academy of Sciences, is this 1830 bronze statue of the great astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik …
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Opened in 2016, this monumental building, with a dome reminiscent of an enormous lemon squeezer, makes a bold contemporary statement. Its brutalist…
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Named after the architect Jakub Kubicki, these vaulted arcades were constructed between 1819 and 1821 on the Vistula embankment beneath the castle. As…
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Keep your eyes peeled for new openings, including a boutique hotel, bars, cafes, restaurants and shops in the early-20th-century power plant that has been…
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Finished in 1911, this elegant church borrows from both the Renaissance and baroque periods. Demolished by the German occupiers during WWII, it was…
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This 2012 mural by Anna Koźbiel and Adam Walas commemorates the modernist architect Bohdan Lachert (1900–87), who designed part of Muranów in the 1950s…
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Ecclesiastical art, including paintings by Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) and Wlastimil Hofman (1881–1970), as well as drawings, sculptures and metallic…
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On 7 December 1970 German chancellor Willy Brandt famously fell to his knees in front of the Ghetto Heroes Monument in a gesture of contrition for Germany…
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A mikveh is a bath used by religious Jewish women for monthly ritual cleansing – this red-brick building completed in 1913 used to contain one and stood…
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Perhaps Warsaw's most iconic neon is this animation of a girl throwing a volleyball, designed by Jan Mucharski in 1960 and hanging off the corner of a…
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Bohdan Lachert and Józef Szanajca designed this 1928 modernist villa to incorporate Le Corbusier’s five points of modern architecture: the free design of…
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Covering much of the end of the tenement building, this striking ceramic-tile mosaic, designed in 1956 by Zofia Czarnocka-Kowalska, combines classical…
Former International Press & Book Club Mosaic
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One of Warsaw's best communist-era mosaic decorations, this piece was designed by Władysław Zych, but his wife Wanda had to supervise its installation…
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This huge gate was used by the Russians as the public execution spot for political prisoners in the late 19th century. In 1933, over a 100 stone crosses…
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Housing the headquarters of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, this space has a variety of events scheduled including exhibitions, talks and film…
