Private Tour: Warsaw’s Best 3-Hour Sightseeing Tour

Łazienki Park, or Royal Baths Park, is the largest park in Warsaw, Poland, covering 76 hectares in the city center. The park-and-palace complex is located in Warsaw’s Ujazdów district on Ujazdów Avenue, part of the Royal Route connecting the Royal Castle with Wilanów Palace to the south. Originally designed in the 17th century as a bathing park for the nobleman Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, Łazienki was transformed in the 18th century by Poland’s last monarch, Stanisław II Augustus, into a setting for palaces, villas, classical follies, and monuments. In 1918, it was officially designated a public park.
Łazienki is visited by tourists from all over Poland and the world and serves as a venue for music, art, and cultural events. The park is also home to peacocks and a large number of squirrels.

You will explore the entire area of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto—the largest in history. Visit Umschlagplatz and Mila 18, and walk around the POLIN Museum—outside, with its memorials and sculptures. Natan Rapaport Monument, Jan Karski, and Leon Suzin sculptures.

The Old Town is a lively tourist center with cobblestone streets and medieval buildings reconstructed after World War II. Its centerpiece is Rynek Starego Miasta, a bustling square with townhouses and upscale Polish restaurants. Nearby is the 14th-century St. John's Archcathedral, which hosts summer concerts. The surrounding area also features the restored apartments and well-kept gardens of the Royal Castle.

The building was originally known as the Palace of Culture and Science of Joseph Stalin, but during de-Stalinization, the dedication to Stalin was revoked. Stalin’s name was removed from the colonnade, interior lobby, and one of the building’s sculptures.
Construction began in 1952 and lasted until 1955. The tower, a gift from the Soviet Union to the Polish people, was built according to Soviet plans by 3,500 to 5,000 Soviet workers and 4,000 Polish workers.
Today, the Palace is a remarkable skyscraper in the center of Warsaw. With a total height of 237 meters, it is the tallest building in Poland.
Inspired by Polish historic architecture and American Art Deco skyscrapers, the PKiN was designed by the Soviet-Russian architect Lev Rudnev in the “Seven Sisters” style and is informally referred to as the Eighth Sister. The Palace was also the tallest clock tower in the world until a clock was installed on the NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building in Tokyo, Japan.

A 5-kilometer-long promenade is a great place for a walk, bike ride, or a night of fun at one of the seasonal clubs operating here. Along the boulevards are pavilions with sun loungers, stone benches, and seats made from branches. There is also a viewing point and a mini beach with wicker baskets. Such a place must have room for the symbol of the river and Warsaw—the mermaid. Stop at the monument and take a photo.

The PGE Narodowy (official name since 2015), or National Stadium, is a football stadium with a retractable roof in Warsaw, Poland. It is used mainly for football matches and is the home stadium of the Poland national football team.
With a capacity of 58,580 seats, the stadium is the largest football arena owned by the association in Poland. Construction began in 2008 and was completed in November 2011. It is located on the site of the former 10th-Anniversary Stadium on Aleja Zieleniecka in the Praga Południe district, near the city center. The stadium has a retractable PVC roof that unfolds from a nest on a tower above the center of the pitch. The retractable roof was inspired by the cable-supported deployment system of the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt and resembles the newly renovated roof of BC Place in Vancouver.
The National Stadium hosted the opening match, two group-stage matches, a quarter-final and the semi-final of UEFA Euro 2012, co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine.

The Warsaw Uprising Museum in Warsaw’s Wola district is dedicated to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. The museum institution was established in 1983, but no construction work took place for many years. It opened on July 31, 2004, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the uprising.
The museum promotes research into the history of the uprising, as well as the history and possessions of the Polish Underground State. It collects and preserves hundreds of artifacts, ranging from weapons used by the insurgents to love letters, in order to present a complete picture of the people involved. The museum’s stated objectives include creating an archive of historical information about the uprising and recording the stories and memories of living participants. Its director is Jan Ołdakowski, whose deputy is historian Dariusz Gawin of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The museum is a member organization of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.

We will take a closer look at the birthplace and museum of Maria Sklodowska-Curie. She was the first female Nobel Prize winner.

The monuments commemorating the Warsaw Uprising were first erected in Warsaw in the 1970s. Previously, there had only been monuments to the Red Army soldiers and the Polish Home Army. The latter’s role in the 1944 urban battles was exaggerated and overestimated. Most of the uprising’s victims, buried in graves throughout the city, were later exhumed and reburied in mass graves far from the city center, with a small concrete monument to “the victims of the war against Nazism.” Mention of the uprising was not permitted until 1989.

Umschlagplatz was the term used during the Holocaust for the holding areas next to railway stations in occupied Poland, where Jews from ghettos were assembled for deportation to the Nazis’ death camps. The largest collection point was located in Warsaw, next to the Warsaw Ghetto.

Ulica Miła 18 was the main headquarters bunker of the Jewish Combat Organization, a Jewish resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II.