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Wawel Castle   Krakow

Wawel Castle, Krakow

 362 Reviews  Most likely the best know feature of Wawel Castle is its fire breathing dragon which sits below the castle walls along the edge of the Visla River and in front of its dragon CAVE. If you want to know... 

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Old Town   Warsaw

Old Town, Warsaw

 164 Reviews  Now when I say get out on the streets of the town, I did not mean lay down in the street, but rather wander the streets with no set plan or according to a map, just let your feet take you where they... 

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Auschwitz   Krakow

Auschwitz, Krakow

 117 Reviews  If you are well aware of what happened under the Nazi regime in the countries invaded by Germany you might opt for an individual visit. Just buy a small booklet with the maps of the blocks-barracks... 

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Lazienki Park and Chopin's Monument   Warsaw

Lazienki Park and Chopin's Monument, Warsaw

 123 Reviews   This was such a wonderful place to talk a leisurely stroll through with lots of things to see along the way. Inside the park, which is free to enter and spend the day in, are several buildings of... 

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Wieliczka Salt Mine   Krakow

Wieliczka Salt Mine, Krakow

 78 Reviews  "The salt was worth more than silver" Legend says that when the Hungarian Princess Kinga (Kunegunda in Hungarian ) went to marry with the ruler of Krakow, she wanted to give the Poles something... 

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Monuments   Warsaw

Monuments, Warsaw

 101 Reviews   Another powerful memorial to the people of Warsaw! This memorial takes the shape of a train wagon and is placed on the former train tracks where the people boarded these wagons. The train car is full... 

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The Market Square (Rynek Glowny)   Krakow

The Market Square (Rynek Glowny), Krakow

 176 Reviews  Adam Mickiewicz is generally regarded as the greatest Polish Romantic poet. There are statues and monuments to honour him all over Poland as well as over the Slavic and Baltic states. Even streets are... 

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Churches   Warsaw

Churches, Warsaw

 127 Reviews  Yes, A church, forgot to find out the name of this small but quite nice church in Warsaw old town. Unusual double entrance doors under a multi arch with some very interesting glyphs on the doors such... 

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The Jewish Quarter (Kazimierz)   Krakow

The Jewish Quarter (Kazimierz), Krakow

 150 Reviews  The Jewish population of Krakow was once an important part of Polish society, that is until Hitler's Nazi got there. The entire Jewish population of this city was systematically destroyed. Today... 

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Warsaw Uprising   Warsaw

Warsaw Uprising, Warsaw

 106 Reviews   In 1944, the people of Warsaw rose up against their oppressors and fought for their city. They built barricades in the roads, traveled through the sewers, and basically doing anything to try to... 

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Churches in Krakow   Krakow

Churches in Krakow, Krakow

 205 Reviews   It was the first church built in the district of Kazimierz on the fourteenth century that later during the siege by the Swedes in Krakow it was used as the headquarters of King Gustav. The building... 

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Palace of Culture and Science   Warsaw

Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw

 74 Reviews   The Palace of Culture and Science is the highest building in Poland and has more than 3,000 rooms. When I arrived in Warsaw, I saw it immediately upon leaving the train station. It was a beautiful... 

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St. Mary's Church   Krakow

St. Mary's Church, Krakow

 129 Reviews  If you want to know everything about the Hejnal read "Krakow in your pocket" under history "the Hejnal". You will learn that: The 7 firemen chosen to play are on call for a 24 hour rotation and stay... 

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Museums   Warsaw

Museums, Warsaw

 74 Reviews   Two time Nobel Prize winner Marie Skłodowska-Curie, famous for her work in radioactivity, was born in the New Town but very near the Old Town of Warsaw in 1867. Marie Curie left Warsaw in 1924... 

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St. Florian's Gate and the Barbican   Krakow

St. Florian's Gate and the Barbican, Krakow

 124 Reviews  Krakow, like any sizeable and respectable old city, has its city walls and gates. The Florianska Gate, near the Barbican, and the streets approaching it are the best preserved in Krakow. We always... 

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Ghetto and Jewish Life   Warsaw

Ghetto and Jewish Life, Warsaw

 83 Reviews   The Umschlagplatz marks the spot where more than 300,000 Jewish people from the Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere were put onto cattle cars and sent to extermination camps. It is a moving memorial,... 

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The Cloth Hall (Sukiennice)   Krakow

The Cloth Hall (Sukiennice), Krakow

 89 Reviews  Here we are at the center of Market Square where it may be one of the oldest malls in the world. Krakow was a strategic location for trade between the East and the rest of Europe, here came exotic... 

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Royal Castle   Warsaw

Royal Castle, Warsaw

 69 Reviews   The Royal Castle in Warsaw is a castle residency and was the official residence of the Polish monarchs. It is located in the Castle Square, at the entrance to the Warsaw Old Town. In its long... 

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Old Town Streets   Krakow

Old Town Streets, Krakow

 91 Reviews  The old town is extensive and wonderful to walk around. Its focal point is the wide open Rynek Glowny (Market Place) in the center. On the outskirts you can find the remains of the old city wall,... 

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Wilanow   Warsaw

Wilanow, Warsaw

 44 Reviews  The palace at Wilanow is often referred to as the 'Polish Versailles'. If you go first thing in the morning why join the queue of students & visitors only to follow them around the palace. Instead go... 

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Museums   Krakow

Museums, Krakow

 59 Reviews  Special Exhibition (Sept 2011)- on loan from the Spanish Royal Family. There was an excellent exhibition of various treasures from the Spanish royal family including furniture, paintings, personal... 

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Sightseeing - All tips in one   Warsaw

Sightseeing - All tips in one, Warsaw

 22 Reviews  I read many informations about Warsaw, but finally found a flyer in our hostel about www.warsaw4u.com and i decided to contact them. And I was satisfied. They're cool cause each day they go two... 

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Jagiellonian University   Krakow

Jagiellonian University, Krakow

 37 Reviews   The Residence Hall is the oldest building and the most famous of Jagiellonian University , that is one of the oldest in Europe In the courtyard you can see at 11 and at 13 h the figures of the clock... 

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Syrenka - Mermaid   Warsaw

Syrenka - Mermaid, Warsaw

 24 Reviews  According to a legend, the mermaid Szawa (or Sava) from the Wisla river was in love with a prince called War or (Varu). This legend explains the founding and the naming of the city of Warsaw... 

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The Town Hall (Ratusz)   Krakow

The Town Hall (Ratusz), Krakow

 42 Reviews  While we did not visit the tower itself, we did use it as a point of reference and rallying point during our VT meet there. Don't look for the Town Hall that the Tower should be near because the Town... 

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The Old Town (Starówka)

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Even if 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. This is also a quite popular dating spot, and a place that families choose for a Sunday walk. The variety of unique restaurants and coffee shops, craftwork shops, the art galleries and of course street artists - all that will certainly make a stroll among the old buildings there one of the most enjoyable parts of the visit.

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Warsaw Ghetto monument

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It depicts a line of Jews marching to their death in a concentration camp. In the courtyard where this monument is located, and at many other places along the route of Memory Lane, are black marble stones like gravestones in a symbolic cemetery, honoring those who died in the ghetto and in the extermination camps.

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Lazienki Park and Chopin's Monument: Chopin Monume

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The Chopin Statue is a large bronze statue of Frédéric Chopin that now stands in the upper part of Warsaw's Royal Baths Park aka £azienki Park, adjacent to Aleje Ujazdowskie (Ujazdów Avenue).It was designed in 1907 by Wac³aw Szymanowski for its planned erection on the centenary of Chopin's birth in 1910, but its execution was delayed by controversy about the design, then by the outbreak of World War I. The statue was finally cast and erected in 1926.[1]

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Auschwitz II Birkenau

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Having spent the morning in Auchwitz I we took the free bus to Auschwitz II Birkenau. We had heard from people that they had decided not to do that because of the horrors they had seen in Auschwitz I. I think though it is a mistake to miss this second camp. Okay there is less to see as many of the barracks are only foundations but it is the size and the loneliness of the camp that makes the impact. Birkenau was added to Aushcwitz in 1942 and it contained 300 barracks on an area covering 175 hectares. After the Wahnsee conference in 1942, when Hitler and his followers decided on the complete extermination of the european Jews this camp became the biggest and most awful of the death camps. In 1944 there were 100,000 prisoners held there.The original train tracks leading to the camp are still there. It was there as they got off the train that about 70% of the deported were sent directly to...

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Auschwitz I

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What can you say about Auschwitz that people do not know? Auschwitz Birkneau is the most well known of the Nazi death camps and the place where about 1,5 million people were murdered by the Nazi's. These people were mostly Jews but also Polish, Gypsies, Russian P.O.W. and members of other nationalities.In 1979 UNESCO inscribed Oswiecim- Brzezinka on the World Heritage List, although it had been established as a museum since 1947. It is a memorial and a warning against racism and xenophobia.Remember if you are travelling alone you can only enter the camp between 8-10 after that it is groups only, althoug individual tourists can join a group. Admission is of course free. The camp is in 2 parts - Auschwitz I the concentration camp and Auschwitz II - Birkneau. there is secure parking at Auschwitz I and a free bus takes you to Birkenau.There was no way we were going to Poland and not going to...

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The Old Town

by margaretvn

We spent a wonderful morning wandering through the Stare Miastro - the Old Town. The city of Warsaw was so badly damaged by the Nazis - 85 % of the city was completely destroyed. This as part of Hitler's plan to get rid of the Polish people and Poland all together. Instead of building a new town the Capital Reconstruction Bureau decided to painstakeingly rebuild the historic centre. This was done using pre-war sketches, paintings and photographes and was not completed until 1962. This process though went at the cost of other cities when they wereforced into donating about 28 million bricks to the building process. The result though is wonderful - as you walk through the little streets and look at the "old" buildings you forget that in fact they are only 50 years old. We had a lovely cup of tea in a delightful teahouse before we set off towards Plac Zamkowy for the start of our morning...

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Lazienski Park

by margaretvn

In this lovely park, next to the Botanical gardens there is a beautiful Art Nouveau monument to the composer Chopin. The monument is set in the middle of the rose garden and it was erected in 1926. It is the work of Waclaw Szymankowski. As part of the terrible and brutal Nazi regime in Warsaw the monument was dynamited on the 31st of May 1940. The next day a a placard had been placed on the ruin by an unknown patriot with the words "I don't know who destroyed me,but I know why: so I don't play the funeral march for your leader"A plaster cast allowed a faithful reconstruction monument to be built and this was unveiled in 1958.Concerts are given around the statue every sunday during May-September

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Holy Cross Church

by margaretvn

Of course being music lovers we could not miss visiting this church where Chopin's heart has its final resting place. Chopin died in his appartment Paris aged just 39. He is buried in the Pere- Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Chopin was terrified of being buried alive (a thought I hate as well!) so he insisted that his body was cut open and his heart removed - he had alwasy said his heart belonged to Poland. In 1882 his heart was sealed in an urn and then placed behind a tablet bearing his likeness which was carved by Leonardo Marconi.The Baroque church is lovely, although restoration work while we were visiting meant a lot of noise. The church was destroyed during the warsaw uprising of 1944 but was painstakingly rebuilt after the war. The organ was built in Salzburg and is the largest in Warsaw

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Gestapo HQ

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Al Szucha 25 was a place that struck fear in the hearts of the Polish people during the German invasion of their country. It was here in 1939, in the former centre of religious beliefs, that the Gestapo made their HQs and for the next five years it was one of the most feared addresses in Poland. Today the building is the Ministry of Education but there is a little but horrifying museum in the cellar as testamony to the horror that occurred there. Entrance is free and as you walk in a little old lady comes out of here "office" and without saying a word turns on the film. No seats so i sat on the steps down to the museum to watch this vivid and repulsive picture of life there. Then we walked along the cells where the prosoners were kept - these had wooden benches in them (known as trams) were the prisoners sat still for hours in the dark. They knew that failure to do so would mean...

The Warsaw Uprising museum

by margaretvn

In Polish - the Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego - was opened in 2004 and marked the 60 th anniversary fo the uprising.Although when we went to visit this museum it was very busy it was so worth visiting. Everyone knows about the horror of the mass murder of nearly 6 million Jews in the war. What is perhaps less well known is the Polish history and how they suffered. The museum takes you through life in Poland under Nazi ruleand takes you through a chronological history of the uprising. Mind you it is not always easy to take the correct route so I got a bit lost on the way. The ten minute film showing the first month of battle is not to be missed. There is the chance to walk (bent double) through a mock sewer system. There were about 25 kilometres of sewers used but I was glad to get out after a few metres! I area dealing with the mass graves is horrible with the stories of families who...

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