Warsaw
Sightseeing

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Patriot, poet and the man who inspired Romanticism in Poland, Mickiewicz stands out as Poland's greatest literary figure - as well as a figure of hope during a bleak age of Russian oppression. Read_on (No Comments)

Fittingly located on the route from the airport one of the first sights that will greet visitors as they crawl into the city centre is the sight of a lone aviator standing at the top of ul. Read_on (No Comments)

Nine metres high and made of white granite June 6, 2009 saw the unveiling of giant cross on pl. Pilsudskiego. It was here that Read_on (No Comments)

A huge monument honouring Jan Kiliński, a Warsaw cobbler who became the unlikely hero of the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising. Read_on (No Comments)

See the Korczak Orphanage. Read_on (No Comments)

See the Korczak Orphanage. Read_on (No Comments)

See the Korczak Orphanage. Read_on (No Comments)

Casting a steely gaze over the square named in his honour is a gloomy looking Field Marshal Piłsudski, a man many Poles hold responsible for winning the country its independence in 1918. Read_on (No Comments)

Built in honour of the man who made Warsaw the capital of Poland, the column was erected back in 1664 and stands twenty two metres high. Read_on (No Comments)

The Battle of Monte Cassino was actually a series of four intense and sometimes controversial battles that took place between Read_on (No Comments)

The founder of modern astronomy. A sheltered academic, he made his observations a century before the invention of the telescope and without help or guidance. Read_on (No Comments)

Just before hitting the WZ tunnel that rumbles below the old town visitors can’t fail but see a giant cast iron statue of Nike: as in the Greek Goddess of Victory, not the shoe. Read_on (2 Comments)

A large bronze statue of U.S. President Ronald Reagan now calls Warsaw home after an unveiling in November 2011 that included former Polish President and Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa. Read_on (No Comments)

History produces few men like Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817). Kościuszko's highest ideal was freedom, and he used his own to try and secure it for all those less fortunate. Read_on (No Comments)

The only surviving part of the destroyed Saxon Palace. The palace was constructed during the 17th century though the tomb was not added to the complex until 1925. Read_on (No Comments)

Dating from 1995, and designed by Maksymilian Biskupski, this monument remembers the victims of Soviet aggression and all those deported to the wastes of Siberia. Read_on (No Comments)