Warsaw and where to go Part 1

After arriving in Warsaw, a city full of busy people – searching for their last Christmas presents, we tried to avoid the main streets and areas downtown.
My Sister and Me discovered lots of unique cafés and bars in the ‘Powisle’ district, an area full of students on their way to ‘Warsaw University Library’.


‘Kafka’: a unique café combined with a second-hand bookshop, with tasty cakes and cookies, features interesting interior design and is mostly visited by Varsovian students who are hanging around with friends, or are doing their homework on their macbooks. (like: String Café, Stockholm)
[Warsaw/Powisle/Ulica Obozna 3]



As well the café ‘Czuly Barbarzynca’ in the same district features a bookstore as well with books about art and travel and lots of magazines and gives you the feeling of sitting in an private library. Here you can find among other things the Wallpaper* City Guide and various Moleskine - also my favourite agenda - Books. Free internet access is granted.
[Warszawa/Powisle/Ulica Dobra 31]


Near the River ‘Wisla’ you can find the ‘Warsaw University Library’ a modern building designed by Zbigniew Badowski and Marek Budzynski and completed in 2000. It contains lots of glas and plants reminding of a wintergarden. The colors of the library are kept in natural green, whereas in front of the main entrance a neon pink installation point out. Visitors can enter the huge roof in summertime (damnit) and the hall, but not the library itself.
[Warsaw/Powisle/ Ulica Dobra 56-66]

‘Palace of Culture and Science’, probably the most popular building in Warsaw, accompanied by its 230 m height the skyscrapers which are build around, is an former gift by the Russians after the 2nd World War (1955). Most of the older people associate it with the era of communism and therefore detest it, but for this generation it represents the Polish Capitol like Big Ben London, or the Eifel Tower Paris. It contains a cinema, theatres, museums, a swimming pool and offices.
[Warsaw/Srodmiescie/Plac Defilad 1]

‘Zlote Tarasy’, one of the biggest shopping malls in Europe, contains also an immense glass roof. It is one of numerous malls in Warsaw next to Arcadia, Blue City, Galeria Mokotow and Promenada. To my convenience it contains cool stores like Topshop, Pull&Bear, Stradivarius, Zara, Mango and various polish shops.
[Warsaw/Srodmiescie/Ulica Zlota 59]