Historical Warsaw Guided Tour

Historical Warsaw mixed walking and car tour

Time: 4-6 hours including driving time

Participants: 1-4 persons

For larger groups extra transportation (mini-van, bus) cost will be added - please contact for details

Type: walking and car tour

Price includes: guiding service, tax, car transportation, parking fees

Additional costs: Optional - Royal Castle entrance fee (5 € per person), Palace on the Water in Lazienki park entrance fee (4 € per person)

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Thorough look on the history of Warsaw - short walk around Old Town, 17th-19th centuries architecture of the city including magnificent Royal Route - the historic way which connected The Royal Castle with Summer Residences of the Polish Kings

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ROUTE: Old Town (churches, streets, monuments), Royal Route (palaces, government buildings), historical centre of Warsaw (Theatre square, Saxon square and garden), charming Three Crosses square, Ujazdowskie ave. with many Embassies and Polish Government buildings plus beautiful Royal Lazienki Park with F. Chopin monument and Palace on the Water - Summer residence of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski

St John's Cathedral claims to be the oldest church in Warsaw. Although a major church in the Mazovian Gothic style, completed in the 15th century, St John's was only upgraded from a parish church to a cathedral in 1798. Destroyed during World War II, is has been reconstructed in its original style. The cathedral was used in 1764, for the coronation of the last Polish king (Stanislaw II) and for the swearing in of the Sejm (Polish Parliament) after the 3rd of May constitution of 1791. The covered footbridge connecting it to the Royal Palace was the result of a failed assassination attempt on King Zygmunt III.

Walking through the Royal Castle, one has to constantly remind oneself that most of it was reconstructed between 1971 and 1984, although the darker elements of the decor were actually salvaged from the ruins. The castle, located on a plateau overlooking the Vistula River, was built for the Dukes of Mazovia and expanded when King Zygmunt III Vasa moved the capital to Warsaw. From the early 17th until the late 18th century, this was the seat of the Polish kings. It subsequently housed the parliament and is now a museum displaying tapestries, period furniture, coffin portraits and collections of porcelain and other decorative arts. Work is underway to recreate the castle gardens, set on the slopes of the Vistula River, which were also badly scarred when the Nazis levelled the rest of the castle complex.