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Buildings, streets... Warsaw
32 Reviews This kiosk with newspapers adjacent to Church of the Holy Spirit (Paulite Church) in the New City is the smallest house in Warsaw. Local law says that only seperate houses have own numbers and this...
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Jewish Life Warsaw
15 Reviews As Jewish people and culture strongly influenced the life of pre-WWII Warsaw it is important to mourn the victims and attrocities they faced from German nazis together with the rest of Warsaw and its...
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Monuments Warsaw
22 Reviews Walking around the Three Crosses Square (Plac Trzech Krzyzy) I found in its eastern part the bust signed: "For Rev. Jakub Falkowski (1t75 - 1845), a founder of the Institiute for the Deaf, grateful...
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Gardens Warsaw
14 Reviews In nothern side of the viewpoint terrace in the Rydz-Smigly Park there is the gate in my picture with inscription "Ogrodki Teatralne" which means the courtyard theatres. There is a pub/restaurant with...
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Kabaty Forest Warsaw
7 Reviews Just get to the metro train and go all the way to the very last station Kabaty. Getting out, pass Tesco mall and go straight. You'll easily get to the Kabaty Forest. Great place for walking, biking or...
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Warsaw's Districts Warsaw
4 Reviews In and around the old Stadium Dziesieciolecia (Tenth-Anniversary Stadium) one of the largest outdoor markets in Europe can be found. It is also often referred to as "Russian Market". The market...
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Churches Warsaw
12 Reviews It's not easy to introduce our church, because our church is not fundamentally a building or a set of programs. Our church is people — a community with a shared vision and a shared faith in Jesus...
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Old Town Warsaw
10 Reviews If you like old small and medium-size clocks, other precise devices and jewelry it's place for you. There are masterpieces of old masters and those who wanted to achieve a title of master in engraving...
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Zoological Garden Warsaw
5 Reviews The Warsaw Zoo (in Praga district , just opposite the Old Town) is certainly a great place to spend a warm summer afternoon! The point is not only to see the animals, but also the beautiful park with...
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Memories from 1974 Warsaw
3 Reviews Lala is my beautiful doll from Warsaw, which I actually bought for my daughter on our first trip to Poland. Years later after Susan was out of college, I realized the dolls were still packed in the...
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Pawiak Warsaw
3 Reviews On the city of Warsaw you will also find Pawiak. Before the WW II it was a prison but when the WW II started Nazis made Pawiak as their head sqaud. When war ended it was destroyed but now days there...
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Maria Sklodowska-Curie Warsaw
2 Reviews Maria Sklodowska-Curie during 1927 Conference in Brussel. The Society in Tribute to Maria Sklodowska-Curie occupies a building on ul. Wawelska 15. The society's main goal is to preserve her memory and...
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Wilanow Warsaw
7 Reviews The Wilanow Park forms an integral part of the Wilanow Palace and Gardens. Perfect for a pleasant walk, it is a destination of choice for Varsovians seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the...
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Zelazowa Wola Warsaw
2 Reviews Zelazowa Wola is situated on the edge of Poland's Kampinos National Park and is the birthplace of Cjopin. Explore Zelazowa Wola's enchanting woods or take a visit to Kampinos National Park. Nearest...
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Zegrzynski Reservoir Warsaw
1 Review Zalew Zegrzynski - Zegrzynski Reservoir - a great place for watersports, walking, fishing and sunbathing - just 20 kilometers north of the city. Two huge rivers - Narew and Bug - bring their waters...
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We spent one day in Swinousje. I cannot be recommended. The place is extremely close to the German border and misterously only full of vacating Poles. The place is a dump, and should only be visited if the weather is good enough to go to the beach.
Kaszuby: A lake district in north-central Poland. A great place if you like to walk around meadows, fields and orchards, swiming or sailing. Some Kashubians speak both Polish and a dialect incomprehensible even to the Poles or a mix of both.
Kazimierz Dolny: A very romantic town located near Lublin on the bank of Vistula River. It's very popular among Polish artists. In the summer a film festival is held in Kazimierz. It's a very peacefull, beautifull and romantic place...
Chelmno: My place of birth. It is a very old and beautiful town in the Pomerania district. You can feel the great atmosphere of this place while walkin around the lovely narrow streets of the oldest part of Chelmno. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the area!
Wabrzezno: A town in the Pomerania district with forteen thousand residents. I've spent seven years in Wabrzezno. My dad and grandad still live there, they both have houses by two different lakes. What's interesting about this town is that it's sorrounded by three lakes and there are virtually no tourists there. The picture you can see on the left has been painted by my great grandfather, Bronislaw Stanczewski (I am sorry for the poor quality- will try to improve it in the nearest future)
Chelmno (photo at top of this page, and to the left) is one of the great undiscovered towns of Poland. It's hard to imagine so much history being packed into such a small place. Hundreds of years ago this was one of the most important towns of Poland, as evidenced by the several huge churches (15th-18th centuries) here that are now closed for lack of attendance. The original medieval walls and gates are almost entirely intact, and there are lots of quaint shops and restaurants here as well. Look through the crowded old cemetary just outside the walls for some interesting Germanic leftovers. Best of all, tourists haven't discovered Chelmno yet, and even in the height of the high season (I was there in July) one could walk the streets and tour the buildings in relative peace. The only bad thing about Chelmno is lack of access - trains don't stop here and you will have to take a bus from...
This is not really off the beaten track, but in the bustling centre of Warsaw, though - if you want to catch a glimpse of the climate of change after the downfall of communism, go see the Stadion X-lecia bazar on the eastern side of the vistula river. It´s the place where Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and nationals of different ex-Soviet-states deal everything from kitchen articles to clothes (some of the stolen, some forged labels...) and all kond of bootlegged CDs, video and computer programs. There is quite a strong presence of mafia-guys as well and you have to be aware of pickpockets. however, bargain-shopping is guaranteed, if you are not too law-abiding ;)...You´ll find more about this bazar on my Warsaw page in the travelogue
If you like canoeing, one of the most beautiful routes is along the Krutynia, a small river in Masuria, Northeastern Poland. It usually takes about ten days and includes some of the most beautiful lakes of the region. Since the Krutynia is neither very deep nor wild, even beginners can try the route without problems
The Bieszczady mountains in southeastern Poland - they belong to the Carpathian mountains and while they offer no rocks or Alpine character, they are one of the most remote and untouched regions of Poland. In the 1940s the region became almost extinct due to fightings between Polish and Ukrainian forces. Many villages were left forever. If you travel there nowadays, you can rediscover wooden churches, hike across dense woods and get a feeling of the 'wild East' of Poland
Kozlowka Museum of Socialist Realism - whether you still remember the grey old days or are too young to know the sounds of the 'Internationale' and the sight of red banners along some Lenin Alley, this is the last reservate in Poland for the out of use Bieruts, Lenins or Stalins. Kozlowka is in Eastern Poland, in the region of Lublin and the main attraction is the castles of the Czartoryski family, one of the richest and most influential aristocrats, well unce upon a time. Even though it may not look very appropriate for proletarian icons, the statues of Communist (or rather Stalinist) adoration are nowadays placed in a side wing of the palace. After the political change nobody seemed to know what to do with all these suddenly surplus Lenins, but just to give a hint of the conception of arts and politics in the ´50s, this museum was opened some years ago. It really has some bizarre...
Sheraton Krakow Hotel Krakow
7 Reviews and 517 Opinions I had a very pleasant stay at this hotel. I was part of a tour group, but would recommend it to the...
Intercontinental Warszawa Warsaw
4 Reviews and 653 Opinions Intercontinental Warswawa is one of the 5***** hotel in warsaw but it is different from the others...
Mercure Hevelius Gdansk
7 Reviews and 221 Opinions Great view from my 9th floor room. [ half way up ]. The room is just what you expect for 450 zloty...
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Q: Hello everyone, My name is Gloria from Rome and I'm coming to Poland soon for a pilgrimage following the history of your...
A: Hi Gloria! From Krakow, I'd recommend that you pay a visit to Wadowice, the home town of Pope John Paul 11 - visit the cathedral where he served - then the house where he...
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