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Plac Bohaterów Getta
The centre of the Jewish ghetto was Plac Zgody, now named after the heroes of the ghetto. This was the point of departure for thousands of Jews who boarded the waiting trains to the various camps. Today it is marked with a memorial by Kraków architects Piotr Lewicki and Kazimierz L
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Historical Museum
Housed in the Renaissance-style castle , the museum is best known for its 700-piece collection of Ruthenian icons. The selection consists of about 260 large pieces dating from the 15th to the 18th centuries, most acquired after WWII from abandoned Uniat churches. The museum’s other
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Upland Gate
The traditional entry point for kings was Upland Gate, at the western end of the Royal Way. It was built in 1574 as part of the new fortifications, which were constructed outside the citys medieval walls to strengthen the system. Authorities werent happy with the original structure
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Borderland Centre
The Borderland Centre occupies Sejnys large synagogue, originally built by the sizable local Jewish community in the 1880s. During the German occupation the synagogue served as a fire station, and after the war as a storage room. Today its an art gallery featuring the arts and cult
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Old Town Hall
The Old Town Hall dates from the 14th century and hasn’t changed much since, though some Renaissance additions lent an ornamental touch to the sober Gothic structure. Today, it houses the main branch of the Toruń Regional Museum boasting displays of Gothic art (painting and stained
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Old Church & Cemetery
This small wooden church and adjoining atmospheric cemetery date from the mid-19th century. The Old Church has charming carved wooden decorations and pews, and the Stations of the Cross painted on glass on the windows. Just behind, the old cemetery is certainly one of the countrys
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Wilanów Park
This splendid 45-hectare park adjoins Wilanów Palace and contains a variety of landscaping. The central part comprises a manicured, two-level Baroque Italian garden, which extends from the palace down to the lake; the south is Anglo-Chinese in design; the northern section is an Eng
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Block 10 Museum
Within Warsaws Citadel , this museum preserves a wing of a former political prison. Cells are labelled with names of the more famous prisoners incarcerated here, including Józef Piłsudski, who did time in cell 25. Inside are paintings by Alexander Sochaczewski (1843–1923), a former
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Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit
Its worth making a detour 3km northwest of the centre to this modern church. Begun in the early 1980s, this monumental building is Polands largest Orthodox church. The huge central onion-shaped dome is topped with a large cross (weighing 1500kg) symbolising Christ, while 12 smaller
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Rainbow
Created by artist Julita Wójcik, this impressive rainbow arch covered with multicoloured artificial flowers originally stood in Brussels to mark Polands 2011 presidency of the EU. Reinstalled on Plac Zbawiciela, it became a controversial symbol of equality and diversity. The struct
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Umschlagplatz
A moving monument marks the site of the umschlagplatz, the railway terminus from which Warsaw’s Jews were transported by the German military to Treblinka. The rectangular monument’s marble walls are carved with more than 3000 Jewish forenames, from Aba to Zygmunt, and the stark mes
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Remuh Cemetery
Just behind the Remuh Synagogue and founded in the mid-16th century, this cemetery was closed for burials in the late 18th century, when a new and larger graveyard was established. During WWII the German occupiers vandalised and razed the tombstones, but during postwar conservation
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Great Mill
Standing conspicuously opposite St Catherine’s Church, the Great Mill certainly lives up to its name. Created by the Teutonic Knights in northern Poland’s typical red brick around 1350, it was medieval Europe’s largest mill at over 40m long and 26m high. With a set of 18 monster mi
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Centennial Hall
The Centennial Hall , also called the People’s Hall (Hala Ludowa), is a huge, round, 6000-seat auditorium, built in 1913 and added to Unesco’s World Heritage List in 2007. Designed by German architect Max Berg and opened to mark the centenary of Napoleon’s defeat by allied European
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Cathedral of St John the Baptist
The centrepiece of Cathedral Island, this three-aisled Gothic basilica was built between 1244 and 1590. Seriously damaged during WWII, it was reconstructed in its previous Gothic form, complete with dragon guttering. The high altar boasts a gold and silver triptych from 1522 attrib
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Skwer Esperanto
If you’ve seen the castle and have more time to kill, walk south along the line of the river, past impressive remnants of the old city walls, to this square behind Hotel Stary Malbork. This scrappy park isn’t much to look at, but around its edge are commemorative stones placed by k
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Narew National Park
Protects an unusual stretch of the Narew River thats nicknamed the Polish Amazon, where the river splits into dozens of channels that spread out across a 2km-wide valley, forming a constellation of swampy islets in between. Most of the parks 73 sq km is comprised of rivers, feeder
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Guardhouse No 1
The Westerplatte area is famous for one thing: it was here, at 4.45am on 1 September 1939, that the first shots of WWII were fired during the German invasion of Poland. The German battleship Schleswig-Holstein began shelling the Polish guard post. The garrison of just 182 men held
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Museum of Ethnography & Archaeology
Forever with its eye on the former market place of Plac Wolności (Liberty Sq) is the Museum of Ethnography & Archaeology . Most displays are fairly standard, featuring archaeological finds from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, but the money collection on the 1st floor is worth
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Białowieźa National Park
Once a centre for hunting and timber-felling, Białowieża (Byah-wo-vyeh-zhah) is now Polands oldest national park. Its significance is underlined by Unescos unusual recognition of the reserve as both a Biosphere Reserve and a World Heritage Site. The forest contains 120 species of b
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