Also known as Mi艂a 18, the memorial mound and obelisk mark what was once a hidden shelter during the time of the Warsaw Ghetto, used by 呕OB, a Jewish resistance group. The Germans discovered it in 1943; Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and several others chose to commit suicide here rather than surrender.
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Warsaw鈥檚 top palace, 10km south of the city centre, was commissioned by King Jan III Sobieski in 1677. It has changed hands several times over the鈥
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For over 60 years this socialist realist palace has dominated central Warsaw. A 鈥榞ift of friendship鈥 from the Soviet Union, it was completed in 1955 and鈥
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This remarkable copy of the original castle blown up by the Germans in WWII is filled with authentic period furniture and original works of art鈥
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This exceptional museum, housed in a former tram power station and its surrounding grounds, traces the history of the city's heroic but doomed uprising鈥
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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Housed in one of Warsaw's best examples of contemporary architecture, this award-winning museum documents 1000 years of Jewish history in Poland. The鈥
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The fully interactive, push-the-buttons-and-see-what-happens Copernicus Science Centre pulls off that tricky feat of being both hugely fun and educational鈥
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Pronounced wah-zhen-kee, this beautiful park includes manicured gardens, an ornamental lake, wooded glades and strutting peacocks. Once a hunting ground,鈥
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This multimedia museum within the baroque Ostrogski Palace showcases the work of Poland鈥檚 most famous composer. You鈥檙e encouraged to take your time鈥
Nearby Warsaw attractions
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Here once stood the railway terminus from which Warsaw鈥檚 Jews were transported by the German military to Treblinka. The rectangular monument鈥檚 marble鈥
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Look closely and you see there are actually two monuments here commemorating the thousands who lost their lives in the ill-fated Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of鈥
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On 7 December 1970 German chancellor Willy Brandt famously fell to his knees in front of the Ghetto Heroes Monument in a gesture of contrition for Germany鈥
4. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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Housed in one of Warsaw's best examples of contemporary architecture, this award-winning museum documents 1000 years of Jewish history in Poland. The鈥
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During WWII the prison that once stood here was used by the Gestapo 鈥 that's the time period that the displays in this grimly fascinating museum focus on鈥
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Dr Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof (1859鈥1917) spoke around a dozen languages before inventing the international language of Esperanto in 1887. He lived in鈥
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This 2012 mural by Anna Ko藕biel and Adam Walas commemorates the modernist architect Bohdan Lachert (1900鈥87), who designed part of Muran贸w in the 1950s鈥
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A meticulous replica, following its destruction by the Germans in WWII, this baroque palace was originally completed in 1683 for the nobleman Jan鈥