Warsaw Castle
by Pablos_new
The most part of the downdown was ruined during WWII. So, all that you can see on a photo is a reconstruction.
From gale.blog.pl 's VT page I've just learned that number of old churches in Selesia were demolished just to take an original old bricks for reconstruction (!!!) Thia sounds very sad and stupid. ;-(
The Palace of Science &...
by Ben-UK
The Palace of Science & Culture.
This 42 story building is the tallest in Poland. Built by and originally named after Josef Stalin in 1955 as a gift to the city and used as Communist Party headquarters. Stalin wanted spires on all of his Russian skyscrapers to distinguish them from American ones, the spire here reaching 758 feet. Today it contains the country's stock market and many science and cultural institutions as the name implies. There is a visitors terrace on the 30th floor.
There is an old joke about it: 'Where is the best view in Warsaw? From the top of the Palace of Culture, the only place where you can't see it.'
Statues in Lazienki Park
by evaanna
The Lazienki Park abounds in statues. They can be found everywhere: on the terrace of the Palace on the Water, in the Theatre on the Island, and in many other parts of the park too.
They are often representations of antique gods, like the satyrs holding lanterns, or Zephyr and Flora in front of the Myslewicki Palace. The auditorium of the Theatre on the Island is topped with 16 statues of famous playwrights, both ancient and modern.
In front of the Palace on the Water there are allegories of two major Polish rivers - the Vistula and the Bug. And of course there are the monuments - to king Jan III Sobieski, to Chopin dating back to 1926, to the great Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz from 1999, and the bust of Piotr Wysocki, a Polish lieutenant, leader of the November Uprising against Russia in 1830, after its fall deported to Siberia for 20 years.
Claus
by matcrazy1
I remembered Claus (cachaseiro) from the meeting in Italy in May, 2005 as a very amusing guy always ready to party till the end. Well, I remember his bicycle trips partly described in his VT-ages and the article on him on the front page of Albanian daily newspaper he brought to the Italian meeting. But being the two among almost 80 VT-animals we didn't have enough time to talk more in Italy. Well, he had to remember me as a crazy photographer of everything around... right?
So, I was very lucky to meet you, Claus again. Thanks a lot for your amusing company, interesting talks and giving us all, I am sure, a lot of good laugh and fan. Claus, what does "cachaseiro" mean? Is it in Danish?
Meeting Points in Warsaw - the top list!
by gzal
If you are meeting up in Warsaw either with a local or other people it is very likely that they will ask you to meet at any of the points listed below (in approximate degree of popularity order):
1) at King Sigmuntus' Column (Kolumna Krola Zygmunta) at the Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy) by the Old Town
2) by the Rotunda (the round building made of glass - location of PKO BP Bank outlet) at the junction of Jerozolimskie Ave. and Marszalkowska Str. (just on the other side of Marszalkowska from the Palace of Culture and Science)
3) by the EMPiK store at Nowy Swiat Str. (usually at the entrance from Nowy Swiat Str.)
4) by the entrance to the Srodmiescie (center of the downtown) subway station - just on the other side of the Marszalkowska Str. than the Rotunda, just off the underground passway
5) by the Copernicus monument at Krakowskie Przedmiescie (on the Royal Trail just off the Warsaw University location, by the end of Nowy Swiat Street)