Post by pieter on May 3, 2006 9:57:33 GMT -7
Her a story of an old Forum visitor and Varsovian, Aadam,
The beautiful city Warszawa
Warszawa is a very gallant town. I am a Varsovian, so perhaps you won't believe me, especially that it is usually assumed that all the citybeauty in Poland goes to Gdansk, Torun, Poznan and Krakow :-) Well, that's true these cities are really very beautiful. But the newcomers to Warszawa from these towns that I know start to appreciate the unique and commodious beauty of 2.4 million Warszawa agglomeration. Yes, Warszawa is not cosy, life here is a bit speedy, it has enormous traffic-jams, and a lot of modern buildings - 'normalized', undistinguishable, that could as well stand in every other financial and bussiness centres of the world. And most of all, it has ugly Russian non-style Palace in the middle. Yet, Warszawa is full of breath-taking old-architecture bystreets, squares, little parks and so on and so on. Major part of that old-architecture on the left bank of Wisla (Vistula River) is not really old - it was meticulously rebuilt from the ashes left after the IIWW in concordance with the pre-war photographs of the demolished districts, parks and buildings. The rubble from the destroyed city was used to form several artificial mountains around the city-centre. One of them, named Gora Szczesliwicka, was turned into a small winter-sport resort with a chair-lift a ski-lift and hill artificial surface enabling skiing all the year round. Some 20 km north from Warszawa there's a really big and marvellous lake - Zalew Zegrzynski- so placed between two huge rivers (Wisla and Narew) that there's almost always a wind on the water. On the banks there are many water-sport resorts, with yachts, surfing boards etc for rent. The anglers love that place too. On it's western border Warszawa turns into National Park comprising vast forests of Puszcza Kampinoska, with elks, boars, deers (not to mention plethora of bird species) relativly easy to observe and reachable by the city-buses from the town centre. In spite of its numerous attractions Warszawa is not the easiest place to live under the sun, but certainly it is one of the most intertesting that I know. And it is beatiful if you get to know her better,
Photographic links of Warsaw:
www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/warsaw.html
search.pbase.com/search?q=warsaw&begin=10
The beautiful city Warszawa
Warszawa is a very gallant town. I am a Varsovian, so perhaps you won't believe me, especially that it is usually assumed that all the citybeauty in Poland goes to Gdansk, Torun, Poznan and Krakow :-) Well, that's true these cities are really very beautiful. But the newcomers to Warszawa from these towns that I know start to appreciate the unique and commodious beauty of 2.4 million Warszawa agglomeration. Yes, Warszawa is not cosy, life here is a bit speedy, it has enormous traffic-jams, and a lot of modern buildings - 'normalized', undistinguishable, that could as well stand in every other financial and bussiness centres of the world. And most of all, it has ugly Russian non-style Palace in the middle. Yet, Warszawa is full of breath-taking old-architecture bystreets, squares, little parks and so on and so on. Major part of that old-architecture on the left bank of Wisla (Vistula River) is not really old - it was meticulously rebuilt from the ashes left after the IIWW in concordance with the pre-war photographs of the demolished districts, parks and buildings. The rubble from the destroyed city was used to form several artificial mountains around the city-centre. One of them, named Gora Szczesliwicka, was turned into a small winter-sport resort with a chair-lift a ski-lift and hill artificial surface enabling skiing all the year round. Some 20 km north from Warszawa there's a really big and marvellous lake - Zalew Zegrzynski- so placed between two huge rivers (Wisla and Narew) that there's almost always a wind on the water. On the banks there are many water-sport resorts, with yachts, surfing boards etc for rent. The anglers love that place too. On it's western border Warszawa turns into National Park comprising vast forests of Puszcza Kampinoska, with elks, boars, deers (not to mention plethora of bird species) relativly easy to observe and reachable by the city-buses from the town centre. In spite of its numerous attractions Warszawa is not the easiest place to live under the sun, but certainly it is one of the most intertesting that I know. And it is beatiful if you get to know her better,
Photographic links of Warsaw:
www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/warsaw.html
search.pbase.com/search?q=warsaw&begin=10
