Warsaw
Reservations are recommend, particularly at weekends, for this popular street-art-decorated cocktail den where the mixologists prefer to chat with you about your drink tastes before creating something special for you.
While you're down this way, check out its Polynesian-themed sister establishment Kiti (http://kitibar.pl) next door.
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Warsaw’s top palace, 10km south of the city centre, was commissioned by King Jan III Sobieski in 1677. It has changed hands several times over the…
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For over 60 years this socialist realist palace has dominated central Warsaw. A ‘gift of friendship’ from the Soviet Union, it was completed in 1955 and…
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This remarkable copy of the original castle blown up by the Germans in WWII is filled with authentic period furniture and original works of art…
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This exceptional museum, housed in a former tram power station and its surrounding grounds, traces the history of the city's heroic but doomed uprising…
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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Housed in one of Warsaw's best examples of contemporary architecture, this award-winning museum documents 1000 years of Jewish history in Poland. The…
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The fully interactive, push-the-buttons-and-see-what-happens Copernicus Science Centre pulls off that tricky feat of being both hugely fun and educational…
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Pronounced wah-zhen-kee, this beautiful park includes manicured gardens, an ornamental lake, wooded glades and strutting peacocks. Once a hunting ground,…
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This multimedia museum within the baroque Ostrogski Palace showcases the work of Poland’s most famous composer. You’re encouraged to take your time…
1. Museum of Life Under Communism
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This small, privately run museum, devoted to the communist period in Poland's history, has found its spiritual home situated over a KFC and overlooking…
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Completed in 1952, this expansive square is the centrepiece of the Marszałkowska Residential District (MDM). Although contemporary shopfronts, commercial…
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Perhaps Warsaw's most iconic neon is this animation of a girl throwing a volleyball, designed by Jan Mucharski in 1960 and hanging off the corner of a…
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Destroyed during WWII, this church was rebuilt to its original early-19th-century design inspired by the Pantheon in Rome. Inside, look to the left of the…
5. Sejm of the Republic of Poland
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Apply online or by phone at least a week in advance to arrange a tour around Poland's national parliament, the Sejm. You will need to bring some form of…
6. Church of the Holy Redeemer
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Finished in 1911, this elegant church borrows from both the Renaissance and baroque periods. Demolished by the German occupiers during WWII, it was…
7. Former International Press & Book Club Mosaic
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One of Warsaw's best communist-era mosaic decorations, this piece was designed by Władysław Zych, but his wife Wanda had to supervise its installation…
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If this stout palm tree growing out of the centre of the De Gaulle roundabout seems like a horticultural anomaly, you'd be correct: it's an artwork with a…