Warsaw places the Old Town — painstakingly rebuilt after the war and inscribed on the UNESCO list — alongside the Royal Łazienki, Wilanów, museums and the Vistula boulevards. It is a city of contrasts, where historic districts meet modern architecture and a lively café scene.
Gardens
Warszawa
Skaryszewski Park (Park Skaryszewski im. Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego) is Warsaw's largest and one of its most beautiful city parks, laid out in the English landscape style in the Praga-Południe district. It covers 58 ha, with ponds and cha…
Historic sites
Warszawa
The Sejm and Senate building complex at 4/6/8 Wiejska Street is the seat of the Polish parliament and also one of the most interesting lessons in 20th-century architecture in Warsaw. For more than four centuries the Polish Sejm had no perm…
Monuments & mounds
Warszawa
The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw (Pomnik Bohaterów Getta) is one of Europe's most important Holocaust memorials: a massive stone block more than 10 meters tall, with reliefs by sculptor Nathan Rapoport, honoring the Warsaw Ghett…
Old towns & squares
Warszawa
Praga-Północ (roughly "PRAH-gah POO-wnots", meaning "Praga North") is the Warsaw district on the east bank of the Vistula where the prewar city still stands. Unlike the rebuilt center, much of Praga survived World War II, so you'll find re…
Other
Warszawa
The National Stadium in Warsaw (Stadion Narodowy, known by its sponsor name PGE Narodowy) is Poland's largest stadium and one of the capital's most recognizable modern landmarks. Its red-and-silver "basket" rises from the Vistula's east ba…
Old towns & squares
Warszawa
Warsaw Old Town (Stare Miasto) is the historic heart of Poland's capital: a pastel-colored Market Square with the Mermaid statue, Castle Square with Sigismund's Column, the Royal Castle, a Gothic cathedral and red-brick city walls with the…
Monuments & mounds
Warszawa
The Warsaw Mermaid (Syrenka, pronounced "sih-REN-kah") on the Old Town Market Square is the city's best-known monument to its own coat of arms: a sword-wielding mermaid with a round shield, standing in the middle of a square of pastel town…
Museums
Warszawa
Zachęta National Gallery of Art (pronounced "zah-HEN-tah") is Poland's leading contemporary art gallery, housed in an elegant 1900 building on Małachowski Square in central Warsaw. There is no permanent display: exhibitions by Polish and i…