NOWY ŚWIAT STREET Nearby: – military objects. There is an interesting outdoor able cafes and restaurants, as well as elegant UJAZDOWSKIE AVENUE Contemporary Art – a cultural institution and THE WILANÓW PARK exhibition making it possible to admire military boutiques and shops selling products of the an excellent gallery. Below the escarpment, AND PALACE COMPLEX The Mikołaj Kopernik Monument The Warsaw University Library tanks and helicopters. world’s luxury brands. The Ujazdowski Park east of the Castle, there is the Agricola Park (Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika) (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie) (Park Ujazdowski) and the street of the same name, where street ul. St. Kostki Potockiego 10/16 ul. Dobra 56/66, www.buw.uw.edu.pl The National Museum The St. Alexander’s Church gas lamps are hand lit by lighthouse keepers tel. +48 22 544 27 00 One of the best examples of modern architecture (Muzeum Narodowe) (Kościół św. Aleksandra) just before the dusk and put down at dawn. www.wilanow-palac.art.pl in the Polish capital. In the underground of this Al. Jerozolimskie 3 ul. Książęca 21, www.swaleksander.pl It used to be the summer residence of Jan interesting building there is an entertainment tel. +48 22 621 10 31 A classicist church modelled on the Roman The Botanical Garden III Sobieski, and then August II as well as centre (with bowling, billiards, climbing wall) www.mnw.art.pl Pantheon. It was built at the beginning of the of the Warsaw University the most distinguished aristocratic families. and on the roof there is one of the prettiest One of the most important cultural institutions 19th c. to commemorate the visit of Alexander (Ogród Botaniczny Uniwersytetu Between the palace and the Lake Wilanów and largest roof gardens in Europe from in the country and the largest museum in the I – the tsar of Russia and, at that time, also Warszawskiego) there is two-level baroque Italian garden, and which you can admire the view of the Vistula capital of Poland. It has a rich collection of the king of Poland. The church was destroyed Al. Ujazdowskie 4 in the southern part – an English-style garden. River and the National Stadium, and through exhibits, from paintings to handicraft and stamps during the war. It was rebuilt afterwards but in www.ogrod.uw.edu.pl special windows you can take a look into the coming from all the eras – from the Antiquity to a simplified form. Set up in 1818, the garden offers interesting Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów library from above. specimens and nature trails and greenhouses. (Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie) The Fryderyk Chopin Museum Poland regained its independence, served for In the garden there are collections of plants the Old Orangery and in the Stanisławowski the world. It has been many times reproduced, Built in the 17th c. for king Jan III Sobieski, (Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina) a while in the Polish army and in 1920 took that consist of over 10 thousand species. The Theatre (in the eastern wing of the building), one famous reproduction – in 1:1 scale – being it is one of the most beautiful monuments The monument of this great Polish astrono- ul. Okólnik 1 (ul. Tamka 41) part in the Polish-Soviet War and was even A city park founded in the 19th c. at a place garden may be visited from spring to autumn. where – additionally – prestigious awards are the one in Hamamatsu (Japan). of the European Baroque and a testament mer living at the turn of the 15th and 16th tel. +48 22 441 62 51, chopin.museum/en awarded a War Order of Virtuti Militari. When where folk entertainment events were often granted to great Poles. In the summer (on every Sunday from May to to the greatness of the then Republic of century was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen. One of the most modern and multimedia the general visited Warsaw in 1967 he lived held. What is especially attractive for walkers THE ŁAZIENKI KRÓLEWSKIE The Łazienki Królewskie is the venue for September) at noon and at 4 pm, free outdoor Poland (‘Rzeczpospolita’). In 1805 Stanisław Nearby: The astronomer’s theory concerning the biographical museums in Europe, located in in Nowy Świat Street. is the park personal scale that has been sitting PARK AND PALACE COMPLEX numerous cultural, scientific and entertain- concerts are held by the monument that always Potocki, the then owner of Wilanów made circulation of the celestial bodies is one of the historic Ostrogski Palace. The Museum (and working) there since 1912. You should ing events, as well as a favourite place for attract a large audience. his collection of art in the palace available to The National Temple the most important scientific revolutions in presents the largest collection of the objects The Banking and Financing Centre also see the 19th century bronze sculpture of ul. Agrykola 1, tel. +48 504 243 783 walks. In the park you cannot ride a bicycle, In Warsaw there are many places related to the public, creating at the same time one of of Divine Providence the history of mankind. In Poland it is said related to the life and work of Chopin (the ‘Nowy Świat’ Gladiator. An unquestionable attraction for www.lazienki-krolewskie.pl rollerblades and a skateboard not to frighten Fryderyk Chopin. The most important of them the first museums in Poland. The interiors of (Świątynia Opatrzności Bożej) that the astronomer ‘moved the earth and so-called chopiniana) in the world. Apart (Centrum Bankowo–Finansowe „Nowy Świat’) children is a large playing ground. the squirrels and peacocks living here, but you are indicated by multimedia playing benches the palace, with its original decorations and Pola Wilanowskie, tel. +48 22 201 97 12 stopped the sun’. There are two more identical from the priceless memorabilia relating to the ul. Nowy Świat 6/12, www.cbf.com.pl can feed the animals. located in several places in the city. furnishing, represent three styles. The oldest, ul. Ks. Prymasa Augusta Hlonda 1 monuments in the world – cast according to composer you can hear there the singing of The building used to be the headquarters The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Monument baroque royal apartments are located in the www.centrumopatrznosci.pl the same model – in Montreal and in Chicago. Nohant birds and smell violas – the favourite of the authorities of the People’s Republic (Pomnik Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego) Palace on the Isle The Belweder Palace main body of the building. The style of the www.muzeumjp2.pl The Copernicus Science Centre scent of Fryderyk Chopin. of Poland PRL. In the times of the People’s Located in the Ujazdów Park, it is a monument (Pałac Na Wyspie) (Belweder) 18th c. is visible in the interiors of the southern The church is part of the Divine Providence Centre The Staszic Palace (Centrum Nauki Kopernik) Republic of Poland the building was the of a great Polish pianist, composer, politician A pearl of Polish architecture and one of the ul. Belwederska 56 wing and the rooms decorated by the Potocki where museum of John Paul II and Cardinal (Pałac Staszica) ul. Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 20 The National Stadium seat of the state authorities and so it was and social activist. symbols of Warsaw. King Stanislaw August www.prezydent.pl family in the 19th c. are in the northern wing. Stefan Wyszyński are to be opened (in 2015) ul. Nowy Świat 72 tel. +48 22 596 41 00 (Stadion Narodowy) commonly dubbed the Party’s House. At the contemporary times. What deserves special The Statue of John of Nepomuk Poniatowski organised parties here and invited as well as the Pantheon of the Great Poles Built at the beginning of the 20th c. thanks to www.kopernik.org.pl Al. Księcia J. Poniatowskiego 1 that time, it was the most heavily guarded attention is Picasso’s ceramics and the Faras (Figura św. Jana Nepomucena) The Ujazdów Castle guests for famous Thursday Dinners. Special The Mausoleum of Stanisław in the lower part of the temple, where there the efforts of priest and prominent activist of One of Warsaw’s special places and the most tel. +48 22 295 95 95 building in Poland. From 1991 the building Gallery (Europe’s largest exhibition of the art The statue depicts the guardian of roads and – Centre for Contemporary Art attraction are rides on gondolas that moor close and Aleksandra Potocki are already graves of Father Jan Twardowski the Enlightenment Period Stanisław Staszic. It modern scientific and cultural institutions in www.stadionnarodowy.org.pl housed the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WGPW). and culture of the Nubian Christian period) and bridges. It was placed at its current place in (Zamek Ujazdowski to the palace. Nearby there is the Theatre on (Mauzoleum Stanisława i Aleksandry Potockich) – a poet, Father Zdzisław Peszkowski – the was built on the site where there used to be Europe – a place where you can experience At present, the owner of the edifice is the joint the painting by Jan Matejko (19th c.) called 1752 to commemorate the finishing of the – Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej) the Isle where in the summer you can listen A neo-Gothic chapel built in the 19th c. in Chaplain for the Katyń Families Association a destroyed Dominican monastery and before things rather than just see them. You can feel stock company Centrum Bankowo-Finansowe ‘the Battle of Grunwald’ of the impressive size works of paving the streets of Warsaw and ul. Jazdów 2, www.csw.art.pl to concerts and watch plays. honour of the former owners of Wilanów. and Families of Victims Murdered in the East, that – an Orthodox chapel.