2 hours strolling in the centre of Warsaw
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Tour no. 1. Price: 350 zloty
It’s impossible to create a fixed formula for what such a trip includes, because it depends on your interests and whether you want to stroll or run. A group never moves faster than the slowest, and I often have guests with walkers or wheelchairs. They also need to be taken into account. A group of high school students, on the other hand, can move at an astonishing speed.
Usually, the Warszawa guide tour also starts at your hotel, which means that the tour will be planned according to where we start and where you might want to end.
Let me try to make an example of a trip where we move fast. In this case, we start either at Hotel Sofitel Warszawa Victoria, Hotel Bristol or Hotel Raffles Europejski Warsaw.
1. Pilsudski Square – an enormous square packed with symbols
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and plenty of other memorials. Here we hear about Poland’s freedom hero from the first World War and the 2010 Smolensk plane crash in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski died along with 96 other top political leaders in Polish society.
2. At the Presidential Palace – one of the few buildings not destroyed during World War II
Here we get an account of the Polish president and what he is doing. We also talk about Thorvaldsen’s statues in Warsaw and the 1989 Round Table talks that led to the collapse of the communist regimes in Central Europe.
3. Castle Square in the Old Town
Here we see the National Football Stadium from 2012, the rebuilt Royal Palace, the walls surrounding the city and the column of the Wasa King from 1644. Here I’ll tell you a little bit about kingship and nobility in Poland and Lithuania in the Middle Ages.
4. Cathedral and Jesuit Church – do Polish people go to church?
Through the old town we pass the cathedral and the Jesuit church. I tell you about the churches. We won’t go into them, but I will tell you about the position of the church in Poland.
5. The old Market Square with reconstructed town houses
Rynek or the old Market Square. Here I talk about the reconstruction of the Old Town in Warsaw after WW2. and some legends about the square. We also see the Little Mermaid, a Warsaw landmark.
6. Barbican – defending Warsaw in the middle ages
The division between the Old City and the New City. I talk about how the two cities came to be.
7. Monument to the Warsaw Uprising – suicide or heroism
About the uprising against the Germans in Warsaw in 1944, how the Red Army and Stalin dealt with the uprising and how the Polish people see and have seen it. In the same place we see the Military Cathedral and the Krasiński Palace.
8. The Supreme Court and political conflicts in Poland
Here I talk about the legal system in Poland and the political controversies surrounding the courts in Poland.
It’s a compressed programme and I can’t promise that we’ll be able to do everything, but I’ve also had groups where we’ve gone even further.
I let the group set the pace and I answer any questions you want to ask.
If you haven’t written anything about what you’d like to see, I’ll ask about it when we start, and I’m also usually good at guessing what people are interested in.
Write to me at m@hardenfelt.pl to arrange a guided tour in Warsaw