Bursztynek

Warsaw


Shops selling jewellery, trinkets and object d'art made from Baltic amber are common around the Old Town. This one on Central Sq offers a wide range of products at various price points, and has the advantage of an interesting small free museum upstairs explaining how amber is produced from the fossilised resin of coniferous trees.


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