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Srodmiescie Warszawskie is a part of Krakow in Poland. It is in the district Centrum north east of the Old Town.

Contents 1 Understand 2 See 2.1 Churches 2.2 Cemeteries 2.3 Parks 2.4 Museums 2.5 Others 3 Eat

Understand

In the Middle Ages the houses of the Srodmiescie Warszawskie were made of wood and poorer craftsmen lives there. In the 18th century most of ist area was turned into one of the oldest and finest cemetery in Europe - the Rakowicki. It is kept in a romantique style as a garden and many famous Poles are burried there. There are a lot of fine 19th century houses, a fort, two parks, two beautiful churches and two museums in this part of town.

See

Churches

There is the neogothic and neoromanique Church of the Immaculate Conception of St. Mary south of the cemetery and a romantique chapel (1863) in the middle of the Rakowicki. Both are worth seeing. You can get there walking the Lubicz street and turning left a the first traffic lights.

Cemeteries

The Rakowicki Cemetery is one of the most beautiful in Europe. The oldest graves are from the 18th century. It was enlargend in 1803, 1863, 1885, 1908 and in 1920 a military cemetery was added. Besides famous and ordinary Krakowians special areas were made for participants of the Uprising of 1830, 1846 and 1863, the soldiars of the Polish Legions and of both World Wars, workers killed during the stajks in 1936, American and British pilots, partyzants, victims of the German-Nazi terror and Red Army soldiars who died liberating Krakow in 1945. If you are in Krakow at 1st or 2nd of November you must go there after dark, you might never have seen such a bright cemetery and so many candles at one place. All Saints is a very important holiday in Poland. The most famous people burried there are:

• Ignacy Daszyński - Polish politician in the 19th century
• Józef Dietl - Krakow mayor and rector of the Jagiellonian University in the 19th century
• Roman Ingarden - Polish philosopher in the 19th century
• Jan Matejko - Polish painter in the 19th century
• Helena Modrzejewska - Polish actresse in the 19th century
• Tadeusz Kantor - Polish painter, regisseur and actor in the 20th century
• Juliusz Kossak - Polish painter in the 19th century
• Wojciech Kossak - Polish painter in the 19th century
• Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski - Polish minister of economics between the World Wars
• [Józef Mehoffer] - Polish painter in the 19th century
• parents and brother of pope John Paul II

Parks

• In the west of Warszawskie Srodmiescie is the Fort Rogatka, one of the parts of the frotification of Krakow in the 19th century which was of the biggest in Europe as Krakow was in the border triangle between Austria, Prussia and Russia. It is a historic park now and can be visited.
• South of it is the Strzelecki Park (Sagittaurius Park) with monuments of John Paul II and king Sigismund II August.

Museums

• South of the Strzelecki park is a nice little museum.
• The Museum of the Polish Home Army 1939-45 is near the Rakowicki Cemetery.

Others

• The new Krakow Philharmonia is built at the Lubicz Street.
• The Krakow School of Economics (Akademia Ekonomiczna) is at the Lubomirskiego Street.

Eat