Visit Warsaw Warszawa
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Visit Warsaw Warszawa - Walking through the Old Town in Warsaw with a guide.
We are presenting the exemplary tour in Warsaw which is possible to do in the 4 hours. The meeting point will be Zlota street [Gold street - 'Zlote Tarasy' Shopping Gallery - Golden Terraces] next to the Main Station in Warsaw. So, We may pick you up from the train directly, when you come from Krakow. The journey from Krakow to Warsaw takes max 2,30 min. To by tickets http://www.intercity.pl/en/
Walking tour 2,5h
•Castle square (plac zamkowy)
•st. John Cathedral
•Presidential Palace
•Warsaw Uprising monument
•Tomb of unknown Soldier
•Old Town Market
•New Town market
•Academic church of st. Anna
•Krakow's suburb (Krakowskie przedmieście)
•Nowowiejska street
•Palace of Culture & Science
•Chopin's museum
Landmark Tour 1,5h
•Warsaw citadel
•Fort of Legions (Fort legionów)
•Sapieha Palace (palac Sapiechow)
•Barbican (Barbakan Warszawski)
•City Walls (miejskie mury obronne)
•Old Town Market Place (Rynek Sterego Miasta)
•Royal Castle
•King Sigismund's Column
Jewish Tour 2h
•Umschlagplatz
•Memorial of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto
•The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute
•Nozyk Synagogue
•Janusz Korczak Monument
•Warsaw Ghetto Walls
Warsaw tour - other trips proposition
•The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw
•Passing through the former Jewish Quarter
•The Saski garden, The Pilsudski Square and The Unknown Soldier Monument
•The Old Town - The Krakow's Suburb and The Presidential Palace
•The Royal Castle [visiting inside with licensed guide]
•The Old Town Square, The Mermaid statue
•The Barbican and the City Walls
•The Freta street and The museum of Marie Sklodowskiej - Curie
•The New Town and The New Town Square.
•The Vistula river bank walk [The playing fountains in the evenings.]
•Back to the city walls in Warsaw
Museums in Warsaw
•The Historical Museum of Warsaw
•The Warsaw Uprising Museum
•The Museum of Polish Jews Polin
•The National gallery Museum in Warsaw
•The Chopin Museum
•The Royal Castle in Warsaw
•The Wilanow Palace
•The Lazienki Palace
•The Kopernik Science Center
•The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum
Warsaw in 1 Day:
Warsaw morning tour (2-3h)
Old Town, Barbakan, Warsaw Hist.Museum, Old Royal Palace,Fountain Park, President Residence, Marie-Curie Museum.
lunch break
Warsaw afternoon tour (2-3h)
Palace of Culture and Science, Jewish Quarter.
or 2nd day (3-4h)
Lazienki Park, Church of Holy Cross (Chopin's Heart), Chopin Museum.
Dumplings [PIEROGI] workshops in Warsaw [English and French]
depending on group size and type of filling
Warszawa is a modern, sparkling and cultural city. Because of its long, rich and sometimes tragic history there are many historical and interesting places to see. Despite the fact that almost 85 percent of the city was destroyed during World War II, there are still many elderly buildings and palaces left. Several of those destroyed are reverentially rebuilt or restored i.e. the Royal Castle and the Old Town.
Warsaw's Old Town Market Square and its surroundings, the Old Town (Stare Miasto, also called Starowka), is a reconstruction, it deserves to be often called for the best tourist attraction of Warsaw, for its charming beauty and its unforgettable atmosphere.
The Old Town was established in the 13th century and soon surrounded by city walls of brick. The nearby New Town was outlined not so much later, and got its own town status.
In the beginning of the 18th century Tylman van Gameren, a Dutch architect that worked for the royal court, redesigned the Old Town Square and had The Town Hall, that dominated the surroundings, demolished.
The whole area has been completely destroyed during the World War II, but all those narrow gothic streets, monasteries, renaissance churches and merchants' houses had been carefully reconstructed, and now the whole area is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Jewish District in Warsaw - Before the World War II, approx. 30 % of the Warsaw population – over 350 000 people - was Jewish. There were about 400 synagogues and prayer houses in the city; destroyed by the Nazis to celebrate defeating of the Ghetto Uprising. Today, there is only one synagogue left in Warszawa.
Lot of Jews used to live on the right side of the river – Praga, and still today, walking certain streets there, you can sense the atmosphere of the Jewish Warsaw before the war.
On the left side of the river, where the Ghetto used to be, there are now several monuments commemorating the Jews of Warsaw – between them The Monument over the Ghetto Heroes and Umschlagplatz - a memorial raised at the very spot where Warsaw Jews were gathered in 1943, loaded on cattle wagons and transported to the death camp at Treblinka.
How to get from Cracow to Warsaw:
You may take a train which is every hour www.pkp.pl
or take a private car.
Warsaw
Warsaw - Old Town
Symbol of Warsaw
