Tourist attractions in Warsaw, Poland, Europe

Main article: Tourist attractions in Warsaw
Sights
Warsaw Old Town[show]
1. Stone stairs
2. Historical Museum
3. Barbican
4. Defensive walls
5. Salwator tenement
6. Museum of Leather Crafts
7. St. Anne's tenement
8. Fukier tenement
9. Museum of Literature
10. Museum of Artistic and Precision Crafts
11. St. Martin's Church

12. Gothic Bridge
13. Pelican house
14. St. John's Cathedral
15. Jesuit Church
16. Canonicity
17. Royal Castle
18. Copper-Roof Palace
19. East - West Route tunnel
20. Dung Hill
21. Warsaw Mermaid statue
22. Zygmunt's Column

Although today's Warsaw is a fairly young city, it has many tourist attractions. Apart from the Warsaw Old Town quarter, carefully reconstructed after World War II, each borough has something to offer. Among the most notable landmarks of the Old Town are the Royal Castle, King Zygmunt's Column, Market Square, and the Barbican.

Further south is the so-called Royal Route, with many classicist palaces, the Presidential Palace and the Warsaw University campus. Also the popular Nowy Świat Street is worth mentioning. Wilanów Palace, the former royal residence of King John III Sobieski, is notable for its baroque architecture and beautiful parks.[117]

Warsaw's oldest public park, the Saxon Garden, is located within 10 minutes' walk from the old town.[118] Warsaw's biggest public park and said to be the most beautiful is the Royal Baths Park. It is also very old – established in the 17th century and given its current classical shape in late 18th century[119] – is located further south, on the Royal Route, about 3 km (1.9 mi) from the Warsaw Old Town.

The Powązki Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Europe,[120] full of sculptures, some of them by the most renowned Polish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since it serves the religious communities of Warsaw, be it Catholics, Jews, Muslims or Protestants, it is often called a necropolis. Nearby is the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe.

There are many places in Warsaw where Jewish culture resonates down through time. Nożyk Synagogue, the picturesque Próżna Street, the Jewish theater are only the beginning of a walk in the traces of Warsaw Judaica. There are also many places commemorating the tragic pages of Warsaw’s history such as the Umschlagplatz, the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, and a section of the Ghetto wall on Sienna Street.[22]

Examples of the heroic history of Warsaw can be found in all parts of the city. The Warsaw Citadel, one of the architectural attractions of the city, is an impressive 19th century fortification and one of the best preserved examples of defensive architecture in Poland.[22] The statue of Little Insurgent located at the ramparts of the Old Town commemorates the children who served as messengers and frontline troops in the Warsaw Uprising.[22] Pawiak an infamous German Gestapo prison is now occupied by a Mausoleum of Memory of Martyrdom and the museum.[121]

In Warsaw there are many places connected with the life and work of Fryderyk Chopin. The heart of Polish-born composer is sealed inside Warsaw's Holy Cross Church.[122] During the summer time the Chopin Monument in the Royal Baths Park is a place where pianists give a concerts to the park audience.[123]

Also many references to Marie Curie, her work and her family can be found in Warsaw: Marie's birthplace at the Warsaw New Town, the working places where she did her first scientific works[124] and the Radium Institute at Wawelska Street for the research and the treatment of cancer which she founded in 1925.[125]