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Grob Nieznanego Zolnierza Review
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Grób Nieznanego Zolnierza
- Address: pl. Pilsudskiego, Royal Route, Warsaw
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Category: Memorials/Monuments
- Location: Warsaw
Fodor's Review:
Built as a memorial after World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the body of a Polish soldier brought from the eastern battlefields of the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-20 -- a war not much mentioned in the 45 years of Communist rule after World War II. Ceremonial changes of the guard take place at noon each Sunday; visitors may be surprised to see the Polish Army still using the goose step on such occasions. The memorial is a surviving fragment of the early 18th-century Saxon Palace, which used to stand here on the west side of plac Pilsudskiego. Behind the tomb are the delightful Ogród Saski (Saxon Gardens), which once belonged to the palace and were designed by French and Saxon landscape gardeners.
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