Warsaw’s Old Town got brick walls around it in 1339.
And again, much more recently.
The Old Town’s cobbled streets, dignified marketplace, and medieval townhouses had to be rebuilt from heaps of rubble. Nazis terror-bombed it in 1939, then dynamited much of what was left in 1944 as revenge for the Warsaw Uprising.
The Old Town was rebuilt from the rubble. Our guide’s grandfather was one of many Polish citizens who would go every night after a full day of work elsewhere to help, as a volunteer, on the reconstruction.
By 1980 the restoration was so complete that UNESCO added it to their list of World Heritage Sites.
A beautiful place, a history to inspire pride.
2 responses so far ↓
1 TA // Nov 18, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Looks nice.
It occurs to me that your eternal wanderings have now taken you not all that far from the abode of a certain hyperactive Czech blogger. Maybe you could drop by Pilsen and check on him (and sample the local beer, of course)?
:)
2 Betsy Devine // Nov 18, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Sounds like fun, but we are already traveling too much!