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City of Destination
The city have the two enduring points for definition -the Wisla River, running south to north across the Mazovian plains, and the Moscow-Berlin road, stretching across this terrain - and through the city - east to west. Such a location, and four hundred years of capital status, has ensured a history writ large with occupations and uprisings, intrigues and heroism. Warsaw's sufferings, its near-total obliteration in World War II and subsequent resurrection from the ashes, have lodged the city in the national consciousness. Knowledge of Warsaw's rich and often tragic history can transform the city, revealing voices from the past in even the ugliest quarters: a pockmarked wall becomes a precious prewar relic, a housing estate the one-time centre of Europe's largest ghetto, the whole city a living book of modern history. Wending its way north towards Gdansk and the Baltic Sea, the Wisla river divides Warsaw neatly in half: the main sights are located on the western bank, the eastern consists predominantly of residential and business districts. Marking the northern end of the city centre, the busy Stare Miasto (Old Town) provides the historic focal point. West of the Stare Miasto, in the Muranów and Mirów districts, is the former ghetto area, where the Nozyck Synagogue and the ul. Okopowa cemetery bears poignant testimony to the lost Jewish population. South from the Stare Miasto lies Sródmiescie , the city's commercial centre, its skyline dominated by the Palac Kultury i NaUK (Palace of Culture), Stalin's permanent legacy to the citizens of Warsaw. Warsaw is a much livelier and more cosmopolitan place than its given credit for in the West. It is a little-known fact, for instance, that there are up to thirty thousand Americans living in WarsawFor those arriving without personal connections or contacts, Warsaw can seem forbidding, with much of the place still shutting down within a few hours of darkness, but Varsovians are generous and highly hospitable people.
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