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| nuthatch | profile | all galleries >> Poland >> Warsaw | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 on Krakowskie Przedmiescie, heading toward Stare Miasto |
 Plac Zamkowy, the gate to the old town |
 old King Zygmunt keeping watch |
 just after the beatification of Jan Pawel II, the city is still celebrating |
 into the streets of the old town |
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 a detour out to the riverside... |
 ...overlooking the Vistula |
 sparrows feeding |
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 on the old town rynek... |
 ...completely rebuilt after WWII |
 the syrena, symbol of the city... |
 ...and a mocking representation as well |
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 some ongoing restoration |
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 heading south again toward the royal way |
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 the monument to Adam Mickiewicz, Poland's romantic poet |
 a Katyn memorial |
 the presidential palace, lit in national colors |
 our hotel |
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 one of the many memorials to Warsaw's native son, Chopin |
 the church of the Holy Cross... |
 ...where Chopin's heart is entombed in this pillar |
 potatoes behind bars |
 on Pilsudskiego square |
 the tomb of the unknown soldier... |
 ...under honor guard |
 the former Bank of Poland building... |
 ...a site of resistance in the Warsaw Uprising... |
 ...and destroyed after |
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 the modern art branch of the national museum |
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 a graffito memorial to the Warsaw Uprising |
 hey, it's May 3rd: Constitution day in Poland! |
 an outdoor display on the May 3rd constitution in Polish and world history |
 an old map of Poland in 1772... |
 ...showing Rohatyn! |
 Copernicus, a light of Polish science... |
 ...in front of the Warsaw scientific society building |
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 heading down Nowe Swiat... |
 ...to the National Museum of art and history |
 medieval Polish painting... |
 ...and sculpture |
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 by Franciszek Zmurko, in the 1880s |
 Maurycy Gottleib, Portrait of a young Jewess, 1879 |
 Andrzej Wroblewski, Surrealist Execution, 1949 |
 frescoes from a Coptic monastery at Faras, Sudan, 9th c. |
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 Greek pottery |
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 Assyrian relief carving |
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 the Krasinski palace |
 monument to the Warsaw Uprising |
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 memorial to the Jewish ghetto |
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 street marker showing the former ghetto wall |
 in the Nowe Miasto, the 'new' town |
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 remembering Marie Curie |
 heading back to Plac Zamkowy at end of day |
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 starting the next day at the Ogrod Saski, the Saxon Gardens |
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 on Prozna street, an architectural memorial to the city's Jewish past |
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 the Nozyk synagogue, the only city temple to survive the war |
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 on boulevard Jan Pawel II |
 a rare section of former ghetto wall in the center of town |
 out at the old Jewish cemetery, another section of ghetto wall |
 in the cemetery, which somehow survived the war |
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 over 200,000 graves and tombs here, from the 19th and 20th centuries |
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 the paths disappear between the trees |
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 it's a quiet and very peaceful place |
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 one of many memorials to Warsaw's Jewish soldiers in WWII |
 and one to Jewish children killed in the war |
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 back in town, an outdoor exhibit on the bicycle in Poland and around the world |
 a mural to Chopin and his muses |
 the Chopin museum |
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 hommage to the Great Stomatologist |
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 a farewell to Warsaw's wonderful walking spaces |
 pano in the Jewish cemetery |