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WATCH DOCS. Human Rights in Film
Warsaw's Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights hosts WATCH DOCS, a festival that explores Human Rights issues in film. Gracing screens in Ujazdowski Castle and across Warsaw, it has also…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
