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The Westin
A hotel of towering modern architecture, The Westin Warsaw is the perfect silhouette for our resurgent capital. Our hotel stands on one of the city's prime thoroughfares in the business and financial district. Close by is the Old Town with its intimate boutiques and international stores, the Royal Castle, Market Square, Chopin's Monument, the gardens, and parks.



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... rt and crown offices to the expanded Warsaw castle. Consequently, the city experienced yet another period of growth. The number of inhabitants also continued to increase. Thanks to the cultural and artistic leanings of the Vasa dynasty the royal court in Warsaw became an important arts and science centre. Music was particularly well represented with such composers like A. Jarzębski and B. Pękiel working here. The same could be said of the theatre with the famous theatre of Władysław IV Vasa leading the field. The wars of the mid-17th century brought about an economic collapse of Warsaw. In the years 1655-1658 the city found itself under siege three times and three times it was taken and pillaged by Swedish and Transylvanian forces. The years of the "deluge" destroyed and emptied the city of its cultural goods. A great number of works of art, books, paintings, tapestries and other historic objects were taken by the invaders. Then followed a pe... Read all>>