Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Warsaw, Poland

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Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 4.2 km
Ascend 31 m
Descend 29 m

Explore Warsaw in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in WarsawIndividual Sights in Warsaw

Sight 1: Polish Army Museum

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Museum of the Polish Army is a museum in Warsaw documenting the military history of Poland. Established in 1920 under the Second Polish Republic, it occupies a wing of the building of the Polish National Museum as well as several branches in Poland. It is Warsaw's second largest museum and the largest collection of military objects in Poland. The collection illustrates a thousand years of Polish military history, from the 10th century to the Second World War.

Wikipedia: Polish Army Museum (EN), Website

168 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Warsaw Citadel

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Warsaw Citadel is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland. It was built by order of Tsar Nicholas I after the suppression of the 1830 November Uprising in order to bolster imperial Russian control of the city. It served as a prison into the late 1930s, especially the dreaded Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel ; the latter has been a museum since 1963.

Wikipedia: Warsaw Citadel (EN)

49 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Polish History Museum

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The Museum of Polish History or the Polish History Museum is a museum and national cultural institute in Warsaw, Poland. The purpose of the museum is to present the most important events in Polish history, with a particular emphasis on Polish traditions of freedom. Since September 2023, the new museum building has been located in the Warsaw Citadel.

Wikipedia: Museum of Polish History (EN), Website

271 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Park Fosa

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The Moat and Slopes of the Citadel Park is a park located around the walls of the Warsaw Citadel in Warsaw's Żoliborz district, between Wybrzeże Gdyńskie, Kaniowska and Krajewskiego streets.

Wikipedia: Park Fosa i Stoki Cytadeli w Warszawie (PL)

888 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 5: Pomnik żołnierzy AK poległych w ataku na Dworzec Gdański

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Pomnik żołnierzy AK poległych w ataku na Dworzec Gdański sculpture: Irena Nadachowska photo: Jolanta Dyr / CC BY-SA 3.0

Monument to the Home Army soldiers killed in the attack on the Gdańsk Dworzec in Warsaw - a statue of a woman and a commemorative boulder located at ul. Mickiewicza in Warsaw's Żoliborz.

Wikipedia: Pomnik żołnierzy AK poległych w ataku na Dworzec Gdański w Warszawie (PL)

367 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Generał Stanisław Sosabowski

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Monument to General Stanisław Sosabowski - a monument located at al. Polish Army in the Warsaw district of Żoliborz, commemorating the organizer and commander of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade of General Stanisław Sosabowski.

Wikipedia: Pomnik gen. Stanisława Sosabowskiego w Warszawie (PL)

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Pomnik I Dywizji Pancernej

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The Monument of the 1st Armoured Division of General Stanisław Maczek is a monument located on Inwalidów Square in Warsaw, Poland.

Wikipedia: Pomnik 1 Dywizji Pancernej w Warszawie (PL)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Kościół pw. Dzieciątka Jezus

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The Church of the Infant Jesus is a parish church in Warsaw, Poland.

Wikipedia: Kościół Dzieciątka Jezus w Warszawie (Żoliborz) (PL)

423 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Fort Sokolnickiego

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Sokolnicki Fort, originally Sergei's Fort – one of the forts of the Warsaw Citadel. It is located in the Stefan Żeromski Park in the Żoliborz district.

Wikipedia: Fort Sokolnickiego Cytadeli Warszawskiej (PL), Website

770 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 10: Witold Pilecki

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The Witold Pilecki Monument in Warsaw is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, located on the northern part of the lane between the carriageways of Wojska Polskiego Avenue, on the extension of the axis of Bitwy pod Rokitna Street, in the Warsaw district of Żoliborz.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Witolda Pileckiego w Warszawie (PL)

349 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Pomnik Czynu Zbrojnego Polonii Amerykańskiej

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The Monument to the Armed Deed of the Polish American Community is a monument in Warsaw's Żoliborz district, located in the green belt of Wojska Polskiego Avenue, at Grunwaldzki Square.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Czynu Zbrojnego Polonii Amerykańskiej (PL)

649 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 12: Kościół Świętego Jana Kantego

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The Church of St. John Cantius in Warsaw is a neoclassical parish church in Warsaw, Poland.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jana Kantego w Warszawie (PL)

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