The area, which sits just north of Old Town and less than 3 miles north of central Warsaw, is filled with baroque and neoclassical buildings. The district's Freta Street is home to many quaint ...
One of Warsaw's most popular thoroughfares is Krakowskie Przedmiescie, or Krakow Suburb Street. This street was once the start of a route that connected Warsaw with Kraków (hence the name).
As Warsaw transitioned from a provincial city in the Russian Empire into the proud capital of a large country, it began to amass various institutions, the editorial offices of the most widely-read ...