Warsaw Tours
by Renata
 Here I am - Renata, ready to guide you in Warsaw and
in the Mazovia region, where I was born, brought up, studied literature and
history at Warsaw University and have worked - for a certain time as a
journalist, from time to time as a translator of literature (mainly novels),
but most of the time as a tourist guide.
Working
as a guide is my love, hobby and profession. I am happy to show beauty of
Poland to visitors, and also help them
to get to know and understand my country that experienced - as I did - many
changes and survived - stronger and better.
I am an experienced, licenced guide, at first employed by big state tourist
office, then doing that job free lance for other tourist offices and
agencies. Also being recommended by my clients to their friends and
acquaintances. I do private tours for individual visitors - following their
interest and my knowledge. So I can show you Jewish Warsaw, as well as the
catholic city with a lot of churches, or as a town where music is created and
played. The town of Chopin, but also the place where the Mozart festival is
held every summer.
Some tourists I met have Polish roots, many a time I helped them to find
their families they had never seen before, or the places their parents come
from. That makes such a trip fascinating and unforgettable - both for them
and for me.
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Warsaw city tour
Charm, history and contrasts in Poland's
capital
See the highlights of Warsaw during a
4 hours tour – with me, by car and walking.
Warsaw is a green and clean town, so you will be taken to Lazienki Park (18th
century) where you can stroll and admire palaces and pavilions hidden in
thick greenery. Drive along Royal Route, almost completely rebuilt after WWII
to its previous historical design. Walk in Warsaw Old Town, also rebuilt to
its previous style, and put on the UNESCO cultural heritage list as the only
place not original but reconstructed. See the house where Madame Curie was
born, and where Chopin lived. We will also visit what was once the ghetto
area.
With me you will see great contrasts of pre-war Warsaw, districts kept in
socialistic-realistic style and recently constructed modern downtown called
sometimes Warsaw Manhattan. And what about Warsaw Prague? This is how we call
part of Warsaw on the right bank of the Vistula river, where a traditional
bazaar still functions and where the famous film "The Pianist" by
Polanski was made.
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Duration: 4 hours
Price: 200 USD (for up to 4 people)
(ask for a tour
for larger group)
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Warsaw and Royal Castle tour
Raised from the ashes
This is an extended option of the
Warsaw city tour.
After visiting Lazienki park, where you can admire palaces and pavilions,
then driving along Royal Route, walking in the Old Town - a site on the
UNESCO cultural heritage list, seeing the houses where Madame Curie was born
and where Chopin lived, we will stop in one of Old Town small cafés for lunch
where you can savor Polish typical food, then visit Royal Castle, which though
rebuilt in '70, shows a lot of miraculously saved original paintings,
furniture and objects of art. This is where Polish kings lived, where
sessions of Parliament took place, and where now you can see Rembrandt's
paintings and other precious masterpieces.
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Duration: 6 hours
Price: 250 USD (for up to 4 people)
(ask for a tour
for larger group)
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Chopin's country: Warsaw and
surroundings tour
Polish countryside: where mazurkas and
polonaises were created
After 200th anniversary of Frederic
Chopin's birthday, it is a must to visit the places where he lived and spent half
of his life. His birthplace is exceptionally charming; in the village of
Zelazowa Wola situated 55 km outside Warsaw, a lovely manor house later
turned into a museum was his first home. After strolling in a small lovely
park we will drive to Brochow to visit the unique (being stronghold and
shrine at the same time) church where Frederic was baptized and his parents
were married. Return to Warsaw along country road to see typical Polish
villages with old wooden houses and stork nests.
On Sundays (May to September) there is the opportunity to listen to open air
piano recitals performed by some of Poland's best pianists. If your visit
comes on another day you can book the evening piano recital in one of the
palaces in Warsaw (additional price 130 zlotys).
It is recommended to combine both tours: city tour of Warsaw in the morning,
and in the afternoon Chopin's country tour.
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Duration: 4 hours
Price: 250 USD (for up to 4 people)
(ask for a tour
for larger group)
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Warsaw with Wilanow Palace tour
Visit Polish Versailles during Warsaw city
tour
After the Warsaw city tour (where you
can admire palaces and pavilions, drive along Royal Route, walk in the Old
Town - a site on the UNESCO cultural heritage list - see the houses where
Madame Curie was born and where Chopin lived) - and after lunch, we will
drive to the suburbs of Warsaw to visit the interior of Wilanow Palace built
in the 17th century by king Sobieski who defeated Turks in the battle of
Vienna. Later belonging to aristocrat families, the palace became one of the
very first museums in Poland.
This splendid Baroque palace (often called Polish Versailles) survived all
wars, so you can still see its original interiors and stroll in its charming
park in English and Italian style.
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Duration: 6 hours
Price: 250 USD (for up to 4 people)
(ask for a tour
for larger group)
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Jewish heritage in Warsaw tour
They lived among us
This half-day tour focuses on visiting
places connected with the Jewish presence in Poland for about ten centuries.
In Warsaw you can see: still functioning Jewish cemetery; Nozyk Synagogue
which survived the last war; the Jewish Historical Institute with its small
museum and archives; remaining part of the ghetto wall; Umschlagplatz
memorial marking the place of the station from which Jews were deported to
the death camp in Treblinka during WWII; Rappaport monument dedicated to the
heroes of the ghetto; and an orphanage with the exhibition devoted to doctor
Korczak.
It is recommended to combine both
tours: Warsaw city tour in the morning and Jewish heritage tour in the
afternoon.
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Duration: 4 hours
Price: 195 USD (for up to 4 people)
(ask for a tour
for larger group)
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