The Old Town is the most beautiful part of Warsaw. It was there I climbed up huge hills of ruins in 1945. Almost no houses were saved. After some years was the Old Town reconstructed and now nobody can see that it is not really old! And it is - ca 50 years old!
Yngve liked Old Town and atmosphere of the place. There is now plenty of tea-gardens there you can drink or eat, mostly on the Old Square and other streets.
There are unusually many churches in the Old Town, sometimes two-three on one street. On the left - Cathedral of Saint Jan, but quite next door there is another church. In one of churches, St Martin´s , they changed ruined baroque indoor to the rather modern arrangement. It was designed by best Polish artists and it is attached to the second world war martyrology - concentration camps, executions of innocent people, i.e.
Typical streets. On the right there is the street also, its name is "Kamienne Schodki"which means Stone Stairs.
On the left - Dawna Street, means Old Street.
In August 1944, when Red Army came to the Wisla River, on the right side of Warsaw, Polish people thought they could help to get Warsaw free, and they started an uprising. They believed that Red Army would come very soon and together it would be easier to win over Germans. But Red Army had another plans. They stayed ca five months on the other side of Wisla-river doing nothing. Germans bombarded and ruined the most part of the town and killed many young men. But Warsaw people did not get upp. All, young and older, fought. Children, mostly scouts from "Grey Rows" used very simple weapon like f.ex. bottles with petrol and many was killed. On the right The Little Insurgent Statue, on the background of Old Town Fortress Walls. Namely, the worse battles were in the Old Town,which became ruined to the ground by Germans.
