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Thousands of students walk through the neo-Baroque gate on Krakowskie Przedmieście every day, but few stop at the bronze plaque on its pillar: Fryderyk Chopin lived and studied within these walls from 1817 to 1827. The Main Campus of the U…
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When a statue of a king on a tall column went up in 1644 on the square outside the Kraków Gate, the papal nuncio protested: until then, only saints, Christ and the Virgin Mary had been raised so high. Sigismund's Column (Kolumna Zygmunta I…
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Every year on 1 and 2 November, actors, journalists and musicians stand at the gates of Old Powązki with collection tins. The fundraiser started by Jerzy Waldorff in 1975 pays for the repair of chapels, tombstones and sculptures, and in 20…
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From the terrace of the Palace of Culture, Złote Tarasy looks like a glass wave spilling between Warsaw Central Station and Złota Street. Beneath its undulating steel-and-glass roof is one of Warsaw's best-known shopping centres, opened on…
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The University of Warsaw Library (BUW, pronounced "boov") in the riverside Powiśle district is one of the city's most striking modern buildings, and its rooftop garden is free, open to everyone and one of the largest roof gardens in Europe…
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The Marszałkowska Residential District, known as MDM, is the grandest display of Socialist Realism in central Warsaw: monumental apartment blocks with arcades, attics and sculptures of workers lining Marszałkowska Street from Wilcza Street…
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The Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki, often shortened to PKiN, "peh-keen") is Warsaw's most famous landmark: a 237-meter Stalinist skyscraper that towers over the city center. Built in the 1950s as a "gift" from the Sov…