Fellow shared this in r/architectualrevival. I am terribly sorry what has become of Warsaw post-war. 🤢 Don’t get me wrong, Poland is breathtaking, but as a traditionalist, I think it would be better if I avoided Warsaw when travelling.
Fellow shared this in r/architectualrevival. I am terribly sorry what has become of Warsaw post-war. 🤢 Don’t get me wrong, Poland is breathtaking, but as a traditionalist, I think it would be better if I avoided Warsaw when travelling.
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Google “Krakowskie Przedmieście” and “Warsaw Castle square”. The whole city was methodically destroyed during WWII, unfortunately not all of it could have been rebuilt, but some of it was and it’s quite nice.
This is not a good angle, but Warsaw is one of the more livable cities in the world. It has trees — a lot of them — and parks. I like tall building surrounded by trees, and parks.
The photo of pre-war Warsaw is nice, but not a place I’d like to actually live. Buildings, thing sidewalks, and roads aren’t very human.
I love the Old Town in Warsaw, and it’s a beautiful place to visit, go on a walk, take a date, or have dinner, but I much prefer living in Soviet-era new Warsaw, in a big concrete block, next to a giant wooded square with a children’s toys. The concrete Soviet-era block would be nice to upgrade, but I’ll take even that for the trees.
I’ll get shredded by anyone from Poland about this, but I think overall, the Soviet-era planned city design is excellent. The architecture, not so much, but that’s easier to replace over time than replanning a city. I was sad when in the post-Soviet rush, a bunch of new building rose up where there used to be trees.
Warsaw is just so incredibly unlike Poland. It doesn’t feel at all Polish (coming from someone that lives in Buttfucknowhere Podkarpackie but has seen a lot of Poland).
EDIT: I guess I’m getting down voted by all the expats who haven’t travelled much in Poland. To clarify, I never said Warsaw was a bad city, just it doesn’t feel Polish. Do some travelling around Poland and find out for yourselves….
Also Podkarpackie is great, living in the middle of nowhere is not a derogatory remark 😉
Not sure if you know but Warsaw was razed to the ground during the war.
Agree, don’t go there. Bottom tier town in Poland.
I think Warsaw old town has its charm, but it’s nothing like Kraków, the difference being that Kraków wasn’t destroyed during the war
That being said, I love Warsaw’s metro system. Makes it so easy to get around.
Warsaw has a generic “big city” feel if you stay in your car the whole time. Get out and walk around, and each neighborhood is unique and interesting. It’s not my favorite city in Poland, but the best food in the country is found in Warsaw, I’ll admit.
Suepr old bottom photo btw Theres a much more modern subway stop there- and theres a museum being build midway to the right of the picture now.
That being said agreed Warsaw is an eye sore but at the same time it makes it unique a city thats modern,communist, as well as old schoool(From what wasnt destroyed)
somthing like 85% of the city was destroyed in ww2- Then when the communists took over yah some parts were redone(The old town) However gotta think like them they just wanted to rebuild as fast as possible… Look at old pictures of Pekin you have “bloks” as they call them all around and that was the tallest building seen for KM’s around as a “gift” aka reminder whose boss- Honestly i get them not being fans of PKin i am not either but would lvoe to see it redone to the “white” color it was in old pictures makes it look much cleaner but i guess its nice irony the building looks shit stained dirty lol..
It will be interesting to see how Prague which wasnt as destroyed during the fighting will fair after renovations happen they are trying to historically rebuild all the older buildings there hopfully giving Warsw a little bit more of that “european” character its missing
You should see how many famous places were destroyed after both wars and then communism.
[https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,164950,23821620,historia-pl-pilsudskiego-niezwykle-miejsce-w-dziejach-warszawy.html](https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,164950,23821620,historia-pl-pilsudskiego-niezwykle-miejsce-w-dziejach-warszawy.html) (now it’s grób nieznanego żółnierza, almost nothing is left). Many buildings you can see in Warsaw are replicas because **80% areas of Warsaw were totally destroyed to the ground.** Imagine, 80% of such a big city destroyed
I think you would construct that title differently if you knew history better
Yeah, don’t come. We don’t need your ignorant ass here.
Warsaw was completely killed in WW2. The core population was reduced to the brink of annihilation. After the war the soviets brought new people in and started rebuilding the city but it never truly recovered – the people who remember pre-war Warsaw, few as they are nowadays, generally agree that modern Warsaw is but a shadow of what it’s been back when in terms of atmosphere and the general attitude and demeanor of the people living there
Are you that guy from A Confederacy of Dunces?
OP has a weird obsession with Poland. Not the real Poland, just the one they built inside their head.
Yeah well you should also post it on r/germany and „thank” them for this new magnificiernt view 🙃
I’m not a traditionalist but I don’t like it as well. I’m used to the historical architecture in my native Poznań. I love it.
You may want to vent your disappointment on out western and eastern neighbours as they are the ones to thank for that.
You can “thank” Germans for razing the city to the ground and then you can “thank” the occupying Russians for rebuilding it in their twisted way with no respect for pre-war architecture.