Barcelo Warsaw Powisle

The Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera is the home of the Polish National Opera, the Polish National Ballet, the Opera Gallery and the Theatre Museum. It hosts opera and ballet performances, concerts, exhibitions, workshops for artists, educational classes for the youngest ones, while its backstage workshops and rehearsal rooms are buzzing with activity. It is also used as a venue for special events, such as film premieres, conferences, or galas.

The Presidential Palace is located on one of the most representative streets in Warsaw. Attracts our eye with elegant Classicist forms, which owes the reconstruction carried out by Christian Piotr Aigner from 1818-1819. However, the Palace stood here already much earlier, because in the middle of the 17th century.

The University of Warsaw (Polish: Uniwersytet Warszawski, Latin: Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in humanities, technical, and the natural sciences.[10] The University of Warsaw consists of 126 buildings and educational complexes with over 18 faculties: biology, chemistry, journalism and political science, philosophy and sociology, physics, geography and regional studies, geology, history, applied linguistics and philology, Polish language, pedagogy, economics, law and public administration, psychology, applied social sciences, management and mathematics, computer science and mechanics. Among the university's notable alumni are heads of state, prime ministers, Nobel Prize laureates, including Sir Joseph Rotblat and Olga Tokarczuk as well as several historically important individuals in their respective fields, such as Frédéric Chopin, Hilary Koprowski, Bohdan Paczyński, Bolesław Prus, Wacław Sierpiński, Alfred Tarski, Ludwik Zamenhof and Florian Znaniecki.

Warsaw Old Town,[a] also known as Old Town,[b] and historically known as Old Warsaw,[c][1] is a neighbourhood, and an area of the City Information System, in the city of Warsaw, Poland, located within the district of Śródmieście.[2] It is the oldest portion of the city, and contains numerous historic buildings, mostly from 17th and 18th centuries, such as the Royal Castle, city walls, St. John's Cathedral, and the Barbican.[1][3] The settlement itself dates back to between the 13th and 14th centuries, and was granted town privileges c. 1300.[1][4] During World War II, the Old Town was nearly totally destroyed and subsequently reconstructed. The project was the world's first attempt to resurrect an entire historic city core and was included on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1980.[5][6] The reconstruction efforts were again recognized in 2011 when all its documents and records were added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme.[7]

The University of Warsaw Library (Polish: Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie, BUW) is a library of the University of Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816 following the formation of the Royal Warsaw University, it was led by the first director Samuel Linde, a linguist and educator. By 1831, the library housed over 134,000 volumes. However, the November Uprising in 1831 led to its temporary closure and the confiscation of many books by Russian authorities. The library reopened in 1862 as the Main Library and continued to expand, requiring a new building by 1894 to accommodate its expanding collection. During World War I, precious books and manuscripts were stolen by fleeing tsarist authorities, although most had been returned by 1921. As a result of World War II, over 130,000 volumes were damaged by fire. In the post-war period, the University of Warsaw Library focused on rebuilding its collections, significantly increasing its holdings by acquiring materials from abandoned properties. In the 1980s, it emerged as a center of free thought and anti-communist resistance, with the Solidarność movement members among its frequent visitors. The 1990s saw the selection and construction of a new library building, designed by Marek Budzyński and Zbigniew Badowski, which opened in 1999. As of 2019, the library's collection had grown to over 6.2 million items. The library's building includes a botanical garden on its roof, designed by Irena Bajerska, which is among the largest in Europe and open to the public. The library also houses a traditional Japanese tea pavilion, Chashitsu, donated by Kyoei Steel in 2004 and used for events related to Japanese tea culture. This pavilion remains the only original example of traditional Japanese architecture in Poland.

The Fryderyk Chopin Museum is responsible for the world’s largest collection of Chopiniana, an incredibly wide range of memorabilia linked to the composer’s life and work, numbering more than 7500 items.

Vistula boulevards (Polish: Bulwary wiślane) form a continuous riverside promenade on the left (west) bank of the River Vistula in Warsaw, Poland. The section between Poniatowski Bridge and Śląsko-Dąbrowski Bridge is named after Bohdan Grzymała-Siedlecki,[1] and between the bridges of Śląsko-Dąbrowski and Gdański after Jan Karski.[2] The reconstruction of the boulevards began in 2013.[3] The opening of the boulevards was planned for the July,[4] and then autumn of 2014.[5] Later dates of the opening of the boulevards at Podzamcze was estimated to be April 2015, and the segment to Copernicus Science Centre in mid-2015.[6]

The most modern and largest of its kind in Poland, as well as one of the symbols of Warsaw, built for the European Football Championship in 2012. It is located on the site of the historic Tenth Anniversary Stadium, which from the mid-fifties hosted the most important sporting events in Poland: international football matches, Polish football cup finals, the Warsaw Derby, the Peace Race, as well as huge propaganda rallies. After the collapse of the Polish People’s Republic in 1989, around the top of the stadium and later on the surrounding land, the gigantic Europa market operated. If you want to see the stadium from the inside, enter the cloakroom, where Cristiano Ronaldo prepared for matches during the European Championships or see the old players’ tunnel. You can also go on one of several sightseeing routes, including: Famous and Liked”, Feel like a VIP, Touch History and Football Emotions. Currently, in addition to football, other sporting events and various entertainment events are held, such as the food truck festival or Science Picnic, as well as concerts of world-class stars, including the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Madonna, Depeche Mode, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay. In winter, three ice rinks, a curling track and an iceberg that you can ride down are all available. You can also try your skills at the largest skatepark in Warsaw. At night, the stadium shimmers in white and red, the colors of the Polish flag.