Warsaw It is the capital of Poland. Located at one of the most important crossroads in Northern Europe, between Berlin and Moscow, it is located in the center of Poland. It has a population of 1.70 million inhabitants and about 2.37 million in its metropolitan area.
Warsaw is well prepared to welcome visitors. In more or less 100 floors tourists are waiting for 20 thousand places to spend the night, but both standard and forms of accommodation are suitable for different needs and individual financial possibilities of the guests. Well, visitors to Warsaw offer different standard hotels, youth hostels, camping sites. Since the mid-1980s the possibilities of investing in Warsaw have interested large hotel companies. Until today, hotels of such multinationals were built as: Le Royal Meridien, Holiday Inn, Intercontinental, Marriott, Mercure, Sheraton or Ibis.
Big city buildings coexist with open spaces of squares, parks and gardens. The pulsating capital of life without difficulties is part of Europe. It leaves its visitors unforgettable impressions and offers possibilities to those who decide to stay here for longer.
Impressive palaces and museums
Warsaw it has beautiful palaces among which the one of the Lazienki, former summer residence of Stanislaus Augustus, built by Domenico Merlini (1775-1975), who also built the palace Myslewicki, currently reserved for guests of the Polish government, and the palace Staszic, neoclassical building of Antonio Corazzi (1820), headquarters of the Academy of Sciences.
On the southern outskirts of the city, is the former residence of the King John III Sobieski, one of the best examples of baroque architecture in Poland, currently the department of the national museum.
The Warsaw Historical Museum It occupies a series of buildings on the market square. The old arsenal houses the archeological Museum. The main Polish museum is the national museum, located in a building built between the two wars: ancient art (Coptic frescoes); medieval art (sculptures and altarpieces); European painting gallery; Polish art of the 16th century and decorative arts.
More places worth not missing
Definitely worth visiting the oldest and largest Powązki necropolis and the Jewish Cemeteryas well as the Nożyk Synagogue, a place where you can see memories and vestiges of the cultural heritage of the Jews who lived in this part of Warsaw before the WWII.
Other sites of interest are Umschlagplatz, which commemorates the old ghetto, the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and the ruins of the ghetto walls (at 55 Sienna Street).
Like any other European capital, Warsaw has many public transports that make it easier to see and worth taking advantage of especially in summer.
Tourist tram line:
In summer (June-September), on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, an old tram runs on a fixed route (Plaza Narutowicza - Parque Zoológico). Trams run every 50 minutes between 11:00 and 18:00. You can buy the driver's tickets for a price of 2.00 zł. Telephone information: 843 14 51, 94 84
Bus lines for tourists:
We have inaugurated two new tourist lines - they are buses "100" and "180", which take tourists to the most important monuments, churches and gardens of the capital. Line 180 bus runs every day on the Wilanów - Cmentarz Wojskowy road from Powązki, while the line 100 bus runs only on weekends, every hour from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., the beginning and end of the route in the Plaza del Castillo. Normal, simple, daily and monthly tickets are valid on these bus lines.
Street train in the old town:
The street train starts and ends its journey in the Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy). It runs throughout the year between 11.00 in the morning and 5.00 in the afternoon. During the thirty-minute journey through the streets of the Old and New Cities, a guide recounts the history of the most interesting buildings and monuments in this part of Warsaw. You can hire the services of tourist guides who speak foreign languages. Information and reservations: 0 501 131 245 (mobile)
Other details of Warsaw
Area: 512 sq km
Population: 1.70 million
Inhabitants with suburb: 2.4 million
Population density: 3,300 residents per sq km
Median monthly salary (2001): 3,190 PLN
GNP per capita: PLN 52,630
Number of registered companies: 254.362
Structure of inhabitants: 19% of inhabitants are under 17 years old
Public high schools: 13 (150,000 students)
Private high schools: 55 (200,000 students)
Currency: Zloty (PLN) / 1 euro equals 3.8212 PLN / 1 dollar equals 3.0129 PLN
Telephone prefix: +48
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