Metro Rondo Daszyńskiego
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Rondo Daszyńskiego – like the neighbouring Rondo ONZ station, this area is also characterised by modern Warsaw; skyscrapers showcasing a dynamically developing city. Within a short distance are the regional train stations Warszawa Główna and Warszawa Ochota. On the way to these, you’ll also pass Stacja Muzeum, a cosy little museum with railway equipment.
Nearby are a number of reasonably priced hotels (Campanile, Premiere Classe) as well as the former SAS hotel, Sobieski, with a beautiful and colourful facade.
When you get off the metro, you have the option to walk down Towarowa Street, which in one direction will take you towards the Warsaw Uprising Museum, Plac Europejski and a lot of beautiful, modern high-rise buildings. The other direction will take you up towards Jerozolimskie Avenue with a railway museum, hotels and a lively city centre.
The second street is Prosta, which after about 500 metres will bring you to Metro Rondo ONZ. On the way, you slowly approach the row of impressive skyscrapers, but right at the beginning you come across the monument to the evacuation of Jewish freedom fighters from the ghetto.
The monument shows the hands of freedom fighters grasping the ladder to get to the surface – Prosta 51
It is a monument from 2010 that illustrates how a group of Jewish freedom fighters were successfully evacuated through the sewers to the Aryan side in 1943.
The Warsaw Uprising Museum is located in an old power station
The museum itself is an experiential museum, which to a certain extent is probably designed with patriotic education of school classes in mind. It’s not the individual exhibits that are important, but the overall experience, the sounds, the light. You have to feel the rebellion, and the museum has to tell the story that has been decided is the right one. Read more under “the Second world war in Warsaw. Læs mere om museet under 2. Verdenskrig i Warszawa.
Plac Europejski – diagonally opposite the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising.
The tall building in the background is the Warsaw Spire as seen from Towarowa Street. In general, the area is filled with skyscrapers. Also try walking along Grzybowska Street and see it from Plac Europejski.
A complex of steel and glass high-rise buildings from 2016 called Warsaw Spire. The square itself can be seen from Grzybowska Street, but the Warsaw Spire itself can be seen both from here and from Towarowa Street. The building is 180 metres high (220 metres with spire) and has a total of 100,000 square metres of space.
Main railway station (Warszawa główna). Towarowa Street, just off Plac Zawiszy.
Warszawa Główna – a relief station where some local trains terminate
Despite the imposing name, this is a relief railway station where westbound regional trains terminate.
The entrance – like the rolling stock exhibition – is a bit worn
A nice little railway museum right next to the main railway station.
Plac Zawiszy
Hotel Sobieski
A huge roundabout at Towarowa and Aleje Rozolimskie. Here you’ll find a number of excellent and reasonably priced hotels, as well as the slightly more expensive hotel Sobieski in all colours of the rainbow.
Around a 15-minute walk
Warszawa Zachodnia – Western Railway Station
The view towards Warsaw city centre from the bridge of the renovated railway station
One of the three major railway stations in Warsaw, right next to the main bus station. It has been in a state of disrepair for many years, but is currently undergoing a complete renovation, which will probably be over by the time you read this.
The entrance to Warszawa Zachodnia
Hostel Zachodni is the place if you want to stay at a budget price in Warsaw
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