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Śródmieście

Śródmieście, also anglicised as Downtown, is the central district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland.

Śródmieście
Śródmieście · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Śródmieście, also anglicised as Downtown, is the central district of Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. It encompasses the Old Town, the city's historic core, and is the centre of cultural, commercial and political life of the capital.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Śródmieście

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Warsaw

    The University of Warsaw is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in humanities, technical, and natural sciences.

    800 m · largest university in Poland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kazimierz Górski National Stadium

    The Stadion Narodowy, known for sponsorship reasons as the PGE Narodowy since 2015, is a retractable roof football stadium located in Warsaw, Poland. It is used mostly for concerts and football matches and is the home stadium of the Poland national team.

    2.1 km · football stadium located in Warsaw, Poland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Palace of Culture and Science

    The Palace of Culture and Science is a notable high-rise building in central Warsaw, Poland. With a total height of 237 metres, it is the second tallest building in both Warsaw and Poland, the eighth tallest building in the European Union and one of the tallest on the European continent.

    700 m · high-rise building and house of culture in Warsaw, Poland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Library of Poland

    The National Library is the national library of Poland, subject directly to the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The main seat of the National Library is located in the Ochota district of Warsaw, adjacent to the Mokotów Field.

    2.3 km · national library · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Royal Castle in Warsaw

    The Royal Castle in Warsaw is a state museum and a national historical monument, which formerly served as the official royal residence of several Polish monarchs. The personal offices of the king and the administrative offices of the royal court were located in the Castle from the 16th century until the final partition of Poland in 1795.

    1.6 km · castle residency in Warsaw, Poland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Museum in Warsaw

    The National Museum in Warsaw is a national art museum located in Warsaw and one of the largest museums in Poland. It comprises a collection of ancient art, counting about 11,000 objects, an extensive gallery of Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting including Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, German and Russian works.

    600 m · national museum in Warsaw, Poland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. John's Archcathedral

    St John's Archcathedral is a Catholic church within the Old Town precinct in Warsaw, Poland.

    1.7 km · cathedral · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Załuski Library

    The Załuski Library established in Warsaw in 1747 by Józef Andrzej Załuski and his brother, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, both Roman Catholic bishops, was a public library nationalized and renamed upon its founders' death into the Załuski Library of the Commonwealth which existed until the final demise of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795.

    1.5 km · library in Warsaw · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Museum of the History of Polish Jews

    POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a museum dedicated to preserving and recalling the memory of the history of Jews in Poland. The museum is located on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.

    2.4 km · museum founded in 2005 in Warsaw · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Warsaw University of Technology

    The Warsaw University of Technology is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest Universities in Central Europe. It employs 2,553 teaching faculty, including 262 titular professors.

    1.5 km · technical university in Warsaw, Poland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Śródmieście

Airports
Warsaw Chopin (WAW), 8 km · Warsaw Modlin (WMI), 35 km · Łódź Władysław Reymont (LCJ), 125 km
Stations
Warsaw Central railway station, 1.1 km · Warszawa Zachodnia train station, 3.8 km
  • Łódź → Śródmieście
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · zł30–40
  • Lublin → Śródmieście
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · zł37–50
  • Katowice → Śródmieście
    259 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · zł65–90
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Not yet researched

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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Śródmieście. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    687 km
  2. 02
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    877 km
  3. 03887 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    893 km
  5. 05
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    908 km

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Around it

Next door to Śródmieście

  • Warsawcapital and largest city of Poland500 m
  • Warsaw Old Townold town of Warsaw, Poland1.8 km
  • Pragadistrict of Warsaw3.1 km
  • Woladistrict of Warsaw, Poland4 km
  • Żoliborzdistrict of Warsaw, Poland4.6 km
  • MokotówDistrict of Warsaw, Poland3.7 km