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Ujazdów Castle
Erected in the 1620s for King Zygmunt III Waza as his summer residence, the castle was burned down by the Germans in 1944, blown up by the communists in 1954 and eventually rebuilt in the 1970s. Now it houses changing exhibitions of modern art from the Centre for Contemporary Art .
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Poster Museum
Standing near Wilanów Palace, this museum houses some tens of thousands of Polish posters – one of the largest poster collections in the world – but only a fraction of these are shown at any one time. Exhibitions change regularly, making it a museum to visit time and time again.
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Stary Rynek
Lined with brightly painted houses, the renovated old market square is a pleasant and harmonious rectangular space at the end of the long pedestrian stretch along al Niepodległości and ul Żeromskiego. The 18th-century town hall, complete with a slim 54m tower, is a stately landmark
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Orthodox Church
Close by Warsaws zoo, rising from behind a clump of trees just off Praga’s main thoroughfare, al Solidarności, are the five onion-shaped domes of this church. Built in the 1860s in Russo-Byzantine style, its small nave still retains original Byzantine portraits and gold upon gold.
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National Museum’s Department of Art
The National Museum’s Art Gallery resides in an 18th-century palace that formerly served as the Pomeranian parliament. It displays a collection of religious art, particularly woodcarving from the 14th to 16th centuries, and you can also take a peek at the Pomeranian crown jewels.
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Bernardine Monastery
The immense Bernardine Monastery, which contains impressive 16th- and 17th-century paintings in its cloister, serves as the spiritual centre of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska and flanks the areas most impressive church, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels (Bazylika Matki Bożej Anielskiej
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Inside the Saxon Gardens is this military memorial. The guard is changed every hour, and groups of soldiers marching back and forth between the tomb and the Radziwiłł Palace are a regular sight, though the big event is the ceremonial changing of the guard that takes place every Sun
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MS1 Museum of Art
Original branch of the Art Museum, a few blocks walk west of ul Piotrkowska. On hand is an extensive collection of 20th-century paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography from Poland and abroad. There are also works by Picasso, Chagall and Ernst (though these are not always on
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Mazovian Museum
Holds a highly worthy collection of Art Nouveau furniture, decorative items, paintings and glassware. Exhibits show the influence here of both the florid Parisian style of Art Nouveau as well as its sterner, more geometric Viennese cousin, Secession. Newer holdings have added an Ar
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Arka Pana
The retro-modern Arka Pana was the first church in Nowa Huta, built in 1977 after much controversy. Authorities had intended the suburb to be a church-free zone, and it required protests and politicking by the local bishop (one Karol Wojtyła, who would later become pope) to get the
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Amber Museum
This museum is dedicated to all things amber and the craft of designing and creating amber jewellery. The musuem is located in the Foregate, a former prison and torture chamber, so in addition to amber displays, theres also some startlingly realistic displays of torture chambers. T
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Copernicus Tower
At the northwestern corner of the complex is this 14th-century tower (Wieża Kopernika) , believed to be the place from which the astronomer took some of his observations. The top floor is set up to recreate his study but at the time of research the tower was indefinitely closed to
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Opera Leśna
In a wooded hilly area of the town stands the Opera Leśna, an amphitheatre that seats 5000 people and is host to the prestigious August International Sopot Festival, a Eurovision-style song contest and festival famous across Central and Eastern Europe. Check the website for the sum
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Ulica Bohaterów Monte Cassino
Sopot’s unavoidable spine is Heroes of Monte Cassino Street, an attractive and invariably crowded mall stretching from the railway line to the pier. Many of Sopot’s eateries and places of entertainment line its pedestrianised length, some of which can be found in the unmissable Cro
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Miniature Castles of the Teutonic Knights
Head south from the Grudziądz Gate through the park to find this open-air exhibition of nearby Teutonic knights castles. All nine are depicted in their full glory (not the ruins they are today) with Toruń, Grudziądz and Malbork as well as six minor piles all recreated in medieval m
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Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park
This sprawling open-air museum contains scores of traditional wooden buildings spread over 20 hectares. It’s situated within the even bigger Provincial Park of Culture and Recreation, which also houses a stadium, a zoo, amusement grounds and a planetarium. The park is about 3km nor
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Gallery of 19th
This important gallery is separated into four separate rooms, each focusing on an important element of Polish art from the end of the 18th century up to WWI. The Chełmoński room, on the first floor, is considered the strongest, focusing on Polish trends like Realism, Impressionism
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Education and Museum Centre
Located near the entrance to Roztocze National Park, this centre has interesting displays of local flora and fauna, but the primary interest is the small bookshop, where you can pick up maps and other hiking info. There’s a small car park on-site, and many of the best hikes set out
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Bronze Donkey statue
The bronze donkey in the southeast corner (dubbed the ‘brass ass’ by some Americans) has a much more sinister story attached. Few tourists straddling its back are aware that this is actually a copy of a wooden donkey that stood here in medieval times, to which criminals were strapp
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Wawel Cathedral Museum
Diagonally opposite the cathedral is this treasury of historical and religious objects from the cathedral. There are plenty of exhibits, including church plate and royal funerary regalia, but not a single crown. They were all stolen from the treasury by the Prussians in 1795 and re
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