Warsaw Events
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52.25 21.0 | 1 Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival Warsaw's Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival honours not just the composer, but the wealth of classical music in the 200 years since his heyday. Numerous concerts, conferences and exhibitions… | |
52.232365 21.008382 | 2 The Warsaw International Book Fair, held at the Palace of Culture & Science, is an important meeting point for Western and Eastern European publishers. A flurry of authors, publishers… |  |
52.25 21.0 | 3 International Street Arts Festival (Sztuka Ulicy) Warsaw's International Street Arts Festival is held around the Palace of Culture and Science and New Town Square. The art installations and workshops started in 1993 as a forum for artists who… |  |
52.25 21.0 | 4 EuroPride is the largest and most important festival for Europe's lesbian and gay community and in 2010 it's all happening in Warsaw. Eleven days of parties, culture, politics, science and… | |
52.227431 21.007661 | 5 Warsaw Chamber Opera's Mozart Festival First held in 1991, the Warsaw Chamber Opera presents an annual Mozart festival, showcasing the impressive operatic output of this prolific composer. In a music-packed month and a half, the… |  |
52.248469 21.014462 | 6 The courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw hosts the summer Musical Gardens Festival of films showing opera, ballet and art, attracting around 40,000 people. Every year, the festival centres… |  |
52.25 21.0 | 7 Jazz in the Old Town Square Festival On Saturday evenings during summer, Warsaw stages the popular Jazz in the Old Town Square Festival. Thousands gather in the plaza to enjoy open-air performances by renowned musicians who hail… |  |
52.164903 21.087291 | 8 The International Poster Biennale, held in Warsaw's Poster Museum Wilanów, was created on the initiative of Polish graphic artists in 1966 and celebrates its 21st edition this year. |  |
52.25 21.0 | 9 Warsaw Autumn - Contemporary Music Festival The internationally acclaimed Warsaw Autumn Festival presents contemporary classical music from around the world. Over the nine day event, concerts are held at the National Philharmonic Hall… |  |
52.215092 21.035847 | 10 Chopin Memorial Sunday Concerts The Royal Lazienki Park in Warsaw honours Poland's most famous musical son with Chopin Memorial Sunday Concerts between mid-May and September. The concerts, held next to Waclaw Szymanowski's… |  |
52.25 21.0 | 11 Warsaw International Film Festival Polish and foreign directors compete for cash prizes in different categories during Warsaw's International Film Festival. In the non-competitive sections, cinema fans can watch the latest… | |
52.25 21.0 | 12 Warsaw's Piano Festival features a number of recitals at both the Grand Hall of the Royal Palace and the city's Philharmonic Hall. The festival promotes young pianists, Polish and foreign, and… |  |
52.219305 21.028216 | 13 WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film Since 2001 Warsaw has hosted WATCH DOCS, a festival that explores Human Rights issues through film. A number of the city's cinemas, including Muranow and Kino.Lab, show the engaging and… |  |
52.23242 21.024337 | 14 The central National Museum in Warsaw houses an impressive collection of art spanning more than three millennia. Its 11 galleries are home to Egyptian and Mesopotamian artefacts, medieval… |  |
52.248469 21.014462 | 15 Rebuilt on the edge of the Old Town the Royal Castle offers a prescribed route through its immaculately reconstructed chambers. Of note are the Canaletto room, the throne room, royal chapel… |  |
52.232365 21.008382 | 16 Gifted to Poland by Stalin, the 231-metre Palace of Culture & Science in Warsaw city centre is Poland's tallest building, and one of the world's finest examples of Socialist Realist… |  |
52.249516 21.01265 | 17 The Market Square and Old Town should top any tourist itinerary. Rebuilt following total destruction in the Second World War, its network of cobbled alleyways houses numerous museums, churches… |  |
52.230518 20.998374 | 18 The Ghetto Wall and Jewish Heritage With the aid of a good map track down traces of Warsaw's Jewish past, including surviving elements of the Ghetto wall, the synagogue and Umschlagplatz - the spot where Jews were crammed into… |  |
52.237997 20.999336 | 19 Warsaw's old Jewish quarter is a must-see on any trip to the capital. The district became a derelict ghetto during the Second World War but has since proudly reclaimed its Jewish heritage with… |  |
52.215092 21.035847 | 20 Waclaw Szymanowski's imposing sculpture in honour of Poland's most famous musical son, Fryderyk Chopin, stands on the western edge of Warsaw's Royal Lazienki Park. It was erected in 1926 and… | |
52.244278 21.002898 | 21 The Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw was created in 1947. Housed in the Jewish Library building, it documents the life, history and culture of the Polish Jews who had lived in the country… |  |
52.165193 21.089715 | 22 Dubbed 'the Polish Versailles', the 17th-century Wilanów Park and Palace houses priceless artworks and extravagant chambers providing a glimpse into the lives of the ruling classes. The… |  |
52.249515 21.012649 | 23 Visits to the unmissable Historical Museum of Warsaw in the Old Town begin with a film showing the city in ruins in 1944. They continue through 60 rooms covering every aspect of Warsaw's… |  |
52.233477 20.983492 | 24 This modern interactive museum commemorates the doomed 1944 rebellion to liberate the city from Nazi rule. The central Warsaw Rising Museum brings the uprising to life with a vast collection… |  |
52.246295 20.991015 | 25 Pawiak Prison became synonymous with Nazi terror when the Gestapo turned it into a political prison. More than 37,000 people were murdered here and it is now a moving tribute to them, with… |  |
52.164903 21.087291 | 26 Warsaw's Poster Museum at Wilanów, housed within the estate's menagerie building, opened its doors in 1968. It houses one of the world's largest collections of poster art - a truly impressive… |  |
52.232319 21.019791 | 27 Mingle with high-rolling expats and local celebrities in central Sense, a trendy spot whose primary claim to fame is a selection of over 100 vodkas. Cocktails, often invented by the staff… | |
52.219305 21.028216 | 28 Centre for Contemporary Art - CSW Find works by Poland's leading contemporary artists at the Centre for Contemporary Art - CSW, housed inside a central castle. The multimedia installations and exhibitions are a frequent source… |  |
52.215092 21.035847 | 29 The 18th-century Lazienki Park and Palace complex close to the city centre features peacocks strutting around gardens, an amphitheatre modelled on Herculaneum and the royal residence of… |  |
52.248632 21.013083 | 30 Destroyed during World War II, Warsaw's oldest church has been reconstructed in Gothic fashion. St John's Cathedral in the Old Town has works by Wit Stwosz, and eminent Poles buried in the… |  |
52.232365 21.008382 | 31 While the labyrinthine layout is baffling it also makes the experience more fun as visitors stumble across increasingly bizarre displays. Oddities housed in this city-centre Museum of… |  |
52.239327 21.011524 | 32 Poland's leading modern art gallery features artists from home and abroad inside its vast network of corridors and halls in the city centre. The Zacheta Gallery's smaller sister gallery, avant… |  |
52.239319 21.017538 | 33 This unique central shopping centre is housed in a 19th-century former bathhouse and features a fountain to chill champagne. Likus Concept Store has a couple of designer boutiques, a… | |
52.229662 21.016443 | 34 Find two tables squeezed amid shelves piled with tins of chutney and packets of curry paste at Namaste in the city centre. This place is a grocery store first and foremost, though out back a… | |
52.221611 21.016207 | 35 Clunky farming equipment hangs alongside dried sausages inside this popular peasant-themed eatery. Chlopskie Jadlo's staff dress in rural apparel and rush around amid wooden furnishings, while… |  |
52.230194 20.999177 | 36 Zlote Tarasy is Warsaw's best shopping mall and, unlike most, it's right in the city centre. Covered by a huge glass bubble, visitors will find the usual mix of Western shops as well as… |  |
52.236899 20.989394 | 37 City-centre Oberza Pod Czerzonym Wieprzem is a communist-themed restaurant where staff lead patrons to wooden benches before presenting them with red paper sheets with the choices typed onto… | |
52.251782 21.038946 | 38 Outdoor Bazar Rózyckiego has been running since 1905, serving as the place for black market transactions during German occupation, and subsequently in the years of communism. Today it's… |  |
52.250002 21.009471 | 39 This Old Town favourite serves up your daily calorie count in one hit, with piles of meat and cabbage cascading off the wooden boards they're served on. The beer hall atmosphere at Podwale -… | |
52.246984 20.945156 | 40 An outdoor flea market in Obozowa, Bazar Na Kole sells oddities that include Second World War bayonets, 19th-century antique maps and pre-war postcards of Warsaw. Sifting through the treasures… |  |
52.252972 21.030698 | 41 Diners cross town to get to Le Cedre, a Lebanese-owned spot in Praga with an interior straight out of Arabian Nights. Sit amid billowing drapes and satin cushions while puffing on scented… |  |
52.21117 21.010411 | 42 Head to the Stodola nightclub in Mokotów each Sunday for cut-price (and entirely legal) photographic equipment. The selection on offer at the Photo Market is mind boggling and a complete… | |
52.232319 21.019791 | 43 Sense, in the city centre, has a loungelike interior, low-level seating, hip tunes and tunic-clad staff. The menu features creations like lollipop sushi accompanied by wasabi sorbet, and more… | |
52.232842 21.019764 | 44 Fill your wicker shopping basket with locally produced honey, jams, smoked meats and pickles from Krakowski Kredens in the city centre. This most celebrated delicatessen in Warsaw offers a… |  |
52.235861 21.006875 | 45 KOM was once home to the Warsaw telephone exchange, and the cables that remain on view allegedly carried top-secret conversations between Whitehall and the Kremlin during war time. Featuring a… |  |
52.212897 20.955428 | 46 Blue City is a vast modern shopping mall in Warsaw, with over 220 stores under its glass-domed roof. There's even a family entertainment centre (Magic City) and skate park to keep kids… | |
52.231999 21.02003 | 47 Poland's popular EMPiK chain is the place to go for music and books. Whether you're looking for Polish pop, American jazz or a best-selling British novel, you should find something to your taste here. | |
52.23649 20.996174 | 48 This city-centre restaurant is where the high-fliers head to put a dent in their company expense accounts. Don't be discouraged by Atrio's corporate atmosphere, nor the slick, generic design.… |  |
52.230012 21.022369 | 49 Prima Porta is a smart gallery selling exquisite works of art from the ancient world. Statuettes from Ancient Egypt, Bronze Age jewellery from Central Europe, medieval Buddhas from Southeast… | |
52.249655 21.01143 | 50 This classy heavyweight is a stalwart of local dining, with a thick guestbook that includes rock stars and regents. Occupying a dense tangle of rooms U Fukiera, in the Old Town, offers… |  |
