Metro train arriving in Warsaws Metro Marymont station.

Entrances to underground stations are marked with a pictogram and the name of the station. There are entrance gates installed before the very entrances to the underground platforms.

September 9, 2011 Public transport, Uncategorized

chopins statue in the baths park

The Baths Park, or Royal Baths (Polish: Park Łazienkowski, or Łazienki Królewskie) is the largest park in Warsaw, Poland, occupying 76 hectares of the city center. The park-and-palace complex lies in Warsaw’s Downtown (Śródmieście), on Ujazdów Avenue (Aleje Ujazdowskie) on the “Royal Route” linking the Royal Castle with Wilanów palace to the south. North of the Baths Park (Park Łazienkowski), on the other side of Agrykola Street, stands Ujazdów Castle.
History Łazienki Park was designed in the 17th century by Tylman van Gameren, in the baroque style, for Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. It took the name Łazienki (“Baths”) from a bathing pavilion that was located there.

September 1, 2011 Parks

tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw

The Saxon Garden (Polish: Ogród Saski) is a 15.5–hectare public garden in Warsaw’s Downtown (Śródmieście), facing Piłsudski Square, and is the oldest public park in Warsaw. Founded in the late 17th century, it was opened to the public in 1727 as one of the first publicly accessible parks in the world.

August 11, 2011 Parks

List of Warsaw Dentist Clinic and Warsaw dentists:

July 11, 2011 Helpful info

List of private hospitals and clinics in Warsaw

July 11, 2011 Helpful info

List of 24 hour pharmacies in the city of Warsaw. The list includes addresses and phone numbers, so if it’s middle of the night and you are far from the nearest drugstore- be sure to check if it’s still open.

July 11, 2011 Helpful info

List of Warsaw Police stations:

July 11, 2011 Helpful info

In the Holocaust, the Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) in the Warsaw Ghetto was where Jews gathered for deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp.

July 11, 2011 Warsaw Ghetto

Memorial stone to the Jewish ghetto heroes of the Z.O.B. (Jewish Fighting Organization) who died in an underground bunker beneath the house at ul. Mila 18 during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April and May 1943. The stone sits on top of a mound of rubble, where the house at this address once stood; it is turned slightly toward Mila street which is to the left. The street is still named Mila, but #18 is no longer an address there.

July 11, 2011 Warsaw Ghetto

(ulica Próżna)

This is the only former Warsaw Ghetto street still featuring all its tenement houses.

It is one of the few fragments of  ‘Jewish Warsaw’ in which the climate of the old Jewish quarter is revived during the Festival of Jewish Culture – Singer’s Warsaw. The festival has been held annually every September in Próżna street and Grzybowski Square since 2004.

 

July 11, 2011 Warsaw Ghetto