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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 Sigismund'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 Swiat Street is worth mentioning.

Warsaw's oldest public park, the Saxon Garden, is (...)

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 Sigismund'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 Swiat Street is worth mentioning.

Warsaw's oldest public park, the Saxon Garden, is located within 10 minutes' walk from the old town.

Warsaw's biggest public park and said to be the most beautiful is the Lazienki Park. It is also very old - established in the 17th century and given its current classical shape in late 18th century - is located further south, on the Royal Route, about 3 km from the Warsaw Old Town

The Powazki Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Europe , 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 .

To the north of the city centre is the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.

The borough of Zoliborz is famous for its architecture from the 1920s and 1930s. Between Zoliborz and the Vistula River is the Warsaw Citadel, a monument of 19th century military architecture.

Wilanów Palace, the former royal residence of King Jan III Sobieski, is notable for its baroque architecture and beautiful parks.

Warsaw's municipal government authorities have decided to rebuild the Saxon Palace and the Brühl Palace the most distinctive buildings in prewar Warsaw .

Notable examples of contemporary architecture include the Palace of Culture and Science, a Soc-realist skyscraper located in the city centre, the Stadion Dziesieciolecia which used to be the biggest open-air market in Europe and the Constitution Square with its monumental Social realism architecture. The central part of the right-bank (east) Praga borough it is a place where very run-down houses stand right next to modern apartment buildings and shopping malls.

Ulica Kubusia Puchatka, probably the only street in the world named after Winnie-the-Pooh and located in the very centre of a metropolis.

Modern architecture

Modern architecture in Warsaw is represented by:

    * Metropolitan Office Building at Plac Pilsudskiego (Pilsudski Square) by Lord Foster;
    * Warsaw University Library (BUW) by Marek Budzynski and Zbigniew Badowski, featuring a garden on its roof and view of the Vistula River;
    * Rondo 1 office building by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill;
    * Zlote Tarasy retail and business centre.

Planned architecture includes:

    * Museum of the History of Polish Jews;
    * Museum of Modern Art;
    * "Kopernik" Science Centre, named after Copernicus;
    * Zlota 44, an ap