The sightseeing is conducted by an expert guide and comprises all the top places scattered around the city centre or in the nearby areas. Here is some of what you can expect:
1. The Old Town, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List – beautifully rebuilt from scratch after 1945.
2. The Royal Castle with its Square, the residence of monarchs from 1596 to 1795, as well as the residence of the Polish President in 1918. Do not forget to see the King Sigismund III Column – the first secular monument in Poland.
3. St John’s Cathedral, a Gothic church and witness to some of the most important events in the history of Poland, with sarcophagi containing the remains of eminent Poles.
4. The Old Town Market Square and Barbican.
5. The former Jewish Ghetto, the Memorial of the Heroes of the Ghetto, Umschlagplatz and Mila Street, site of the bunker where the leader of the Ghetto Uprising, Mordechai Anielewicz, committed suicide.
6. The Royal Route, with its superb aristocratic residences and famous monuments, including the Holy Cross Church containing urns with the hearts of Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49) and Wladyslaw Reymont (1868-1925), winner of the Nobel Price for Literature.
7. The Royal Park, a walk in the most beautiful park in Warsaw commonly known as Lazienki or the “Baths” and a visit to the interiors of the so-called “Palace on the Water”, the lavish summer residence of the last King of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95).
8. Other important places of interest: the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Monument to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 and the Monument to the Victims of Katyn.