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{{short description|Overview of tourist attractions in Warsaw, Poland}}
[[File:Warsaw08170x.jpg|right|thumb|The 1624 [[Ujazdów Castle]] houses the Center for Contemporary Art.]]
The city of [[Warsaw]], the capital of [[Poland]], offers a variety of tourist attractions, including historical sights, monuments, museums, theatres, and places connected with [[Marie Curie]], and with [[Frédéric Chopin]] and his music.<ref name=easyreally>{{cite web|url =http://www.poland.travel/en-gb/cities/warsaw-the-vibrant-capital-city/|title =Warsaw - the vibrant Capital City|work =www.poland.travel|access-date =2009-04-14|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110726054236/http://www.poland.travel/en-gb/cities/warsaw-the-vibrant-capital-city/|archive-date =2011-07-26|url-status =dead}} ''Due to the amazing reconstruction that followed the destruction of World War II, the Old Town was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1980. (...) ... which was once the Museum of Industry and Trade, where Maria Skłodowska-Curie worked before she left for France. (...) In the summer, Chopin’s music can be heard every Sunday at the Chopin monument in Royal Łazienki Park.''</ref><ref name="warsawtour">{{cite web |url = http://www.warsawtour.pl/index.php?id=2&olang=5 |title = Information about Warsaw |work = www.warsawtour.pl |access-date = 2009-04-14}}</ref> Since 1980, the [[Warsaw Old Town|old town]], one of the main attractions, has been a [[List of World Heritage Sites in Poland|UNESCO World heritage]] site.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/30 |title = Historic Centre of Warsaw |work = whc.unesco.org |access-date = 2008-08-18}}</ref>

==Major sights==
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[[Warsaw Old Town]] (''Starówka'')
* [[Castle Square, Warsaw|Castle Square]]
* [[Zygmunt's Column]]
* [[Royal Castle, Warsaw|Royal Castle]]
* [[Copper-Roof Palace]]
* [[St. John's Cathedral, Warsaw|St. John's Cathedral]]
* [[Jesuit Church, Warsaw|Jesuits Church]]
* [[Old Town Market Place, Warsaw|Old Town Market]]
* [[Museum of Warsaw]]
* [[St Martin's Church, Warsaw|St. Marcin's Church]]
* [[Warsaw Barbican|Barbican]]

[[Warsaw New Town]] (''Nowe Miasto'')
* [[New Town Market in Warsaw|New Town Market]]
* [[St. Kazimierz Church|St. Casimir's Church]]
* [[St. Hyacinth's Church, Warsaw|St. Hyacinth's Church]]
* [[St. Mary's Church, Warsaw|St. Mary's Church]]
* [[Kościół św. Ducha|Holy Spirit Church]]
* [[Kościół Franciszkanów|Franciscan Church]]
* [[Sapieha Palace, Warsaw|Sapieha Palace]]
* [[Warsaw Arsenal]]
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[[File:Castle Square Warsaw.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Castle Square, Warsaw|Castle Square]]]]
The oldest part of Warsaw, founded at the turn of the 13th century, is the Old Town. Its streets form a ''regular chessboard'' pattern typical for medieval towns. Among the most notable landmarks of the Old Town are the [[Royal Castle, Warsaw|Royal Castle]], [[Zygmunt's Column|King Sigismund's Column]], [[Old Town Market Place, Warsaw|Market Square]], and the [[Warsaw Barbican|Barbican]]. Another important [[historic district]] is the [[Warsaw New Town|New Town]]. It was formed at the turn of the 14th century as an independent city and after 1791, due to the tenets of the [[Constitution of May 3, 1791]], was incorporated into [[Warsaw]].

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[[Royal Route, Warsaw|Royal Route]] (''Trakt Królewski'')
* [[Krakowskie Przedmieście|Krakowskie Przedmieście Street]]
* [[St. Anne's Church, Warsaw|St. Anne's Church]]
* [[Tyszkiewicz Palace, Warsaw|Tyszkiewicz Palace]]
* [[Carmelite Church, Warsaw|Carmelite Church]]
* [[Presidential Palace, Warsaw|Presidential Palace]]
* [[Potocki Palace, Warsaw|Potocki Palace]]
* [[Holy Cross Church, Warsaw|Holy Cross Church]]
* [[Kazimierzowski Palace]]
* [[Czapski Palace]]
* [[Visitationist Church]]
* [[Nowy Świat Street]]
* [[Staszic Palace]]
* [[Triple Cross Square]]
* [[St. Alexander's Church, Warsaw|St. Alexander's Church]]
* [[Aleje Jerozolimskie|Aleje Ujazdowskie Street]]
* [[Ujazdów Park]]
* [[Ujazdów Castle]]
* [[Royal Baths Park]]
* [[Palace on the Water]]
* [[Belweder|Belweder Palace]]
* [[Szucha Street]]
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[[File:Ministry of Agriculture Warsaw.jpg|thumb|upright|Example of monumental soc-realist architecture - Ministry of Agriculture at Wspólna Street, built 1953-1956]]

Although today's Warsaw is a fairly young city, it has many [[tourist attraction]]s. Apart from the [[Warsaw Old Town]] quarter, carefully reconstructed after World War II, each borough has something to offer. Among the most notable landmarks of the Old Town are the [[Royal Castle, Warsaw|Royal Castle]], [[Zygmunt's Column|King Zygmunt's Column]], [[Old Town Market Place, Warsaw|Market Square]], and the [[Warsaw Barbican|Barbican]].

Further south is the so-called [[Royal Route, Warsaw|Royal Route]], with many [[classicism|classicist]] palaces, the [[Presidential Palace, Warsaw|Presidential Palace]] and the [[University of Warsaw|Warsaw University]] campus. Also the popular [[Nowy Świat Street]], one of the principal business streets, is worth mentioning. [[Wilanów Palace]], the former royal residence of King [[John III Sobieski]], is notable for its [[baroque]] architecture and beautiful parks.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.wilanow-palac.art.pl/index.php?id=343&menuid=136 |title = Palace |work = wilanow-palac.art.pl |access-date = 2008-02-21}}</ref>

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Other areas
* [[Field Cathedral of the Polish Army]]
* [[Palace of the Four Winds]]
* [[Krasiński Palace]]
* [[Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw|Palace of Culture and Science]]
* [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw|Tomb of the Unknown Soldier]]
* [[Saxon Garden]]
* [[Ostrogski Palace|Ostrogski Castle]]
* [[MDM, Warsaw|MDM]]
* [[Great Theater, Warsaw|National Theater]]
* [[Bank Square, Warsaw|Bank Square]]
* [[Mostowski Palace]]
* former [[Warsaw Ghetto]]
* [[Nożyk Synagogue]]
* [[Pawiak]]
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Warsaw's oldest public park, the [[Saxon Garden]], is located within 10 minutes' walk from the old town.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/zielona/?mi_id=43&dz_id=1 |title = Ogród Saski |work = ePrzewodnik |access-date = 2008-02-10|language=pl}}</ref> Warsaw's biggest public park and said to be the most beautiful is the [[Royal Baths Park]]. It is also very old{{spaced ndash}}established in the 17th century and given its current classical shape in late 18th century<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lazienki-krolewskie.pl/ |title=Historia |work=www.lazienki-krolewskie.pl |access-date=2009-01-31|language=pl}}</ref>{{spaced ndash}}is located further south, on the [[Royal Route, Warsaw|Royal Route]], about {{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the [[Warsaw Old Town]].

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Wola
* [[Powazki Cemetery|Powązki Cemetery]]
* [[Military description of the Warsaw Uprising#Wola Massacre|Wola Massacre Cemetery]]
Wilanów
* [[Wilanów Palace]]
* [[National Temple of Divine Providence|Temple of Divine Providence]]
Żoliborz
* [[Warsaw Citadel]]
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The [[Powązki Cemetery]] is one of the oldest cemeteries in Europe,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ceo.rsi.pl/dokument.php?dzial=2143&id=48006&PHPSESSID=f6c400ad7970068b81fd2708234f8f93 |title=Short and long history of the Powiązki Cemetery |access-date=February 11, 2008 |language=pl }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> full of sculptures, some of them by the most renowned Polish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since it serves the [[religion|religious communities]] of Warsaw, be it Catholics, Jews, Muslims or Protestants, it is often called a [[List of necropoleis|necropolis]]. Nearby is the [[Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery]], one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe.

In many parts of the city, the [[Secular Jewish culture|Jewish culture]] and [[History of the Jews in Poland|history]] are evident.<ref name="judaica">{{cite web|url=http://www.um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=270&dz_id=18|title=Warsaw Judaica|work=www.um.warszawa.pl|access-date=2010-01-26|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070805045632/http://www.um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=270&dz_id=18|archive-date=2007-08-05}}</ref> Among them the most notable are the Jewish theater, the [[Nożyk Synagogue]], [[Janusz Korczak]]'s Orphanage and the picturesque Próżna Street.<ref name="judaica" /> Tragic events from Warsaw’s past are commemorated in places such as the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, the [[Umschlagplatz (Warsaw Ghetto)|Umschlagplatz]], fragments of the Ghetto wall on Sienna Street and a mound in memory of the [[Jewish Combat Organization]].<ref name="judaica" />

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Bielany
* Italian military cemetery
Praga
* [[Church of Our Lady of Loreto]]
* [[St. Florian's Cathedral]]
* [[National Stadium (Warsaw)|Stadion Narodowy (National Stadium)]]
* Central Praga
** [[Brzeska Street]]
** [[Stalowa Street]]
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There are also many places commemorating the heroic history of Warsaw.<ref name="heroic">{{cite web|url=http://www.um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=174&dz_id=17 |title=Heroic City |work=www.um.warszawa.pl |access-date=2010-01-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130704051628/http://www.um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=174&dz_id=17 |archive-date=2013-07-04 }}</ref> [[Pawiak]], an infamous [[Germany|German]] [[Gestapo]] prison now occupied by a [[Mausoleum]] of Memory of [[Martyr]]dom and the [[museum]], is only the beginning of a walk in the traces of Heroic City.<ref name="heroic" /> The [[Warsaw Citadel]], an impressive 19th-century fortification built after the defeat of the [[November Uprising]], was a place of martyr for the Poles.<ref name="heroic" /> Another important monument, the statue of [[Mały Powstaniec|Little Insurgent]] located at the ramparts of the Old Town, commemorates the children who served as messengers and frontline troops in the Warsaw Uprising, while the impressive Warsaw Uprising Monument by Wincenty Kućma was erected in memory of the largest insurrection of World War II.<ref name="heroic" /><ref>{{cite book |author1=James Ramsay Montagu Butler |author2=Norman Henry Gibbs |author3=J. M. A. Gwyer |author4=John Patrick William Ehrman |author5=Michael Eliot Howard |title=Grand strategy|year=1976 |editor=James Ramsay Montagu Butler |page=[https://archive.org/details/grandstrategy02butl/page/369 369]|chapter=History of the Second World War; United Kingdom military series 5 |publisher=H. M. Stationery Off |url=https://archive.org/details/grandstrategy02butl|url-access=registration }}</ref>

[[File:Warszawa Francuska 2 Willa Łepkowskich 04.jpg|thumb|upright|House of Łepkowski, an example of pre-war house designed by Lucjan Korngold]]

After the expansion of the city area in 1916, the opportunity came up to build new estates. Later in 20's and 30's, new workers' and villas' estates were constructed. As a result, the villas' estate was built in [[Saska Kępa]]. Most prewar buildings at this district were not destroyed during [[World War II]]. Nowadays many examples of houses from the interwar period still exist, designed by notable architects such as [[Bohdan Pniewski]], [[Bohdan Lachert]], [[Józef Szanajca]], [[Lucjan Korngold]] or [[Szymon Syrkus|Szymon]] and [[Helena Syrkusowa|Helena Syrkus]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Piwowar|first=Magdalena|last2=Piątek|first2=Grzegorz|last3=Trybuś|first3=Jarosław|title=SAS. An illustrated Atlas of Saska Kępa ARchitecture|year=2012|publisher=Centrum Architektury|location=Warsaw|isbn=978-83-934574-0-3}}</ref>

In Warsaw, there are many places connected with the life and work of [[Frédéric Chopin|Fryderyk Chopin]]. The heart of the Polish-born composer is sealed inside Warsaw's [[Holy Cross Church, Warsaw|Holy Cross Church]].<ref>{{cite web|url =http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=112&dz_id=16|title =Church of the Holy Cross|work =eGuide / Treasures of Warsaw on-line|access-date =2009-02-23|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060218162926/http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=112&dz_id=16|archive-date =2006-02-18}}</ref> During summer, pianists give concerts at the [[Chopin Statue, Warsaw|Chopin Monument]] in the [[Royal Baths Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url =http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=165&dz_id=16|title =Frédéric Chopin Monument|work =eGuide / Treasures of Warsaw on-line|access-date =2009-02-23|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://archive.today/20070528001130/http://um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=165&dz_id=16|archive-date =2007-05-28}}</ref>

Also many references to [[Marie Curie]], her work and her family can be found in Warsaw: Marie's birthplace at the [[Warsaw New Town]], the working places where she did her first scientific works<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.aip.org/history/curie/polgirl2.htm |title = Polish Girlhood (1867-1891) |work = www.aip.org |publisher = American Institute of Physics |access-date = 2009-02-25}}</ref> and the [[Curie Institute (Warsaw)|Radium Institute]] at Wawelska Street for the research and the treatment of cancer which she founded in 1925.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.aip.org/history/curie/radinst1.htm |title = The Radium Institute (1919-1934) |work = www.aip.org |publisher = American Institute of Physics |access-date = 2009-02-25}}</ref>

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Mokotów
* [[Pole Mokotowskie]]
* [[Morskie Oko Park]]
* [[Bernardyńska Street]]
** [[Bernardine Church, Warsaw|Bernardine Church]]
* [[Królikarnia]]
Ursynów
* [[Natolin]]
* [[Kabaty Park]]
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[[File:Czerwinsk3.jpg|thumb|upright|Romanesque monastery in Czerwińsk]]

The area around Warsaw also offers many tourist attractions - medieval [[castle]]s, mansions of the Polish nobles and historic places. Around the city county many medieval monuments can be found including [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] church and monastery in [[Czerwińsk nad Wisłą|Czerwińsk]] (1129–1156)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.czerwinsk.salezjanie.pl/historia.htm |title=Rys historyczny Czerwińska n.Wisłą i Sanktuarium |work=www.czerwinsk.salezjanie.pl |access-date=2009-02-24 |language=pl |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707033730/http://www.czerwinsk.salezjanie.pl/historia.htm |archive-date=2009-07-07 }}</ref> {{convert|52|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Warsaw, and [[Czersk, Masovian Voivodeship|Czersk]] castle (1388–1410)<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.zamkipolskie.com/czersk/czersk.html |title = Czersk - ruiny zamku książąt mazowieckich |work = www.zamkipolskie.com |access-date = 2009-02-24|language=pl}}</ref> a legendary ruined castle sitting atop an escarpment about {{convert|33|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Warsaw. 16th-century parish church in [[Brochów]] at the [[Bzura River]], {{convert|52|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Warsaw, where Chopin's parents were married (1806) and Fryderyk was baptised is another interesting monument. The church was constructed as a fortified Gothic shrine. Bieliński Palace in [[Otwock Wielki]] (1682–1689), {{convert|25|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Warsaw city center, houses the Museum of Interiors while palace in [[Jabłonna, Legionowo County|Jabłonna]], {{convert|18|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of Warsaw, is a part of an 18th-century elegant palace-and-park complex.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palacjablonna.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=107 |title=Jabłonna Palace |work=www.palacjablonna.pl |access-date=2009-04-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217134633/http://www.palacjablonna.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=107 |archive-date=February 17, 2009 }}</ref> [[Żelazowa Wola]] about {{convert|60|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of Warsaw is the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin. The annex of the former 19th-century mansion of the Chopin family was turned into a [[Birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin|museum devoted to the composer]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://en.chopin.nifc.pl/chopin/institutions/detail/id/49 |title = Żelazowa Wola - Fryderyk Chopin's Birthplace |work = en.chopin.nifc.pl |access-date = 2009-02-23}}</ref> A 19th-century health [[spa]] in [[Konstancin-Jeziorna]] is located about {{convert|20|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of Warsaw.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.staypoland.com/about_konstancin.htm |title = Konstancin-Jeziorna |work = www.staypoland.com |access-date = 2009-02-24}}</ref> A narrow-gauge train museum in [[Sochaczew]], about {{convert|50|km|mi|abbr=on}} from Warsaw, has the largest collection of [[Narrow gauge railway|narrow-gauge trains]] in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|author=Przemysław Molik |url=http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/5606/ |title=All Aboard! |work=www.warsawvoice.pl |date=12 May 2004 |access-date=2009-04-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041118091320/http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/5606/ |archive-date=November 18, 2004 }}</ref>

==References==
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==Gallery==

===City centre===
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File:Warszawa Pałac Kultury i Nauki 2009.jpg|''[[Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw|Palace of Culture and Science]]
File:Ulica Kanonia w Warszawie 2020.jpg|''Houses on the Kanonia Square''
File:4 Warszawa 44.jpg|''The [[Adam Mickiewicz]] Statue and the [[Kościół Karmelitów|Carmelite Church]]''
File:4 Warszawa-Lazienki Krolewskie 062.jpg|''[[Royal Baths Park#Roman theater|Roman theater on the Isle]], a companion to the [[Palace on the Water]]''
File:JCWW tomb (2).jpg|''Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery''
File:Filtry Warszawskie przy ul. Koszykowej 81 w Warszawie, Hala Filtrów Powolnych.jpg|''[[Warsaw Water Filters|Lindley Water Filters]]''
File:4 Warszawa-Lazienki Krolewskie 107.jpg|''[[Frédéric Chopin|Fryderyk Chopin]] monument''
File:Warszawawr9.jpg|''[[Saxon Garden]]''
File:Kościół św. Kazimierza na Rynku Nowego Miasta w Warszawie.jpg|''[[St. Kazimierz Church]]''
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===Warsaw surroundings===
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File:Czersk 25.jpg|''[[Duke of Masovia|Masovian Dukes]] Castle in [[Czersk, Masovian Voivodeship|Czersk]]''
File:PL Brochów.jpg|''Fortified Gothic church in [[Brochów]]''
File:Pałac w Otwocku Wielkim.PNG|''Bieliński Palace in [[Otwock Wielki]]''
File:Rezerwat Lasek Bielański 14.jpg|''Lasek Bielański - [[nature reserve]]''
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==See also==
{{wikivoyage|Warsaw}}
* [[Places of worship in Warsaw]]
* [[Architecture of Warsaw]]

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[[Category:Tourism in Warsaw|Attractions]]
[[Category:Lists of tourist attractions by city|Warsaw]]

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