Dom Literatury

Warsaw


This old-fashioned small hotel has a wonderful location and without doubt the slowest elevator in Warsaw (staff even make a joke about it). The views from 3rd-floor rooms, sporting wood-beamed ceilings and formal decor, over the Old Town are stunning. Breakfast is 20zł per person extra.

The building is also the headquarters of the Polish PEN Club, a writers’ organisation, and plays, sometimes in English, are staged here.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

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1. Viewing Terrace

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Climb the 148 steps of the bell tower of St Anne's Church to reach this viewing terrace providing superb panoramas over the Old Town and all around.

2. Sigismund's Column

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Piercing triangular Castle Sq, this 22m-high monument to Sigismund III Vasa, who moved the capital from Kraków to Warsaw, was erected by the king's son…

3. St Anne's Church

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Marking the start of the Royal Way, this is arguably Warsaw's most ornate church. It escaped major damage during WWII, which explains why it sports an…

4. Castle Square

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5. Royal Castle

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6. Tin-Roofed Palace

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7. St John's Cathedral

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8. Warsaw Archdiocese Museum

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Ecclesiastical art, including paintings by Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) and Wlastimil Hofman (1881–1970), as well as drawings, sculptures and metallic…