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  1. “Koneser” and the Polish Vodka Museum: story on the “Praga-Północ: Warsaw's Right Bank” route

    The factory quarter will show how official papers and the products of an occupation-era enterprise were used to save workers.

  2. “Pawiak”: Gate and Bronze Elm: story on the “Muranów: Jewish Memory and a Postwar Neighborhood” route

    The surviving gate makes it possible to connect a daring escape from the beginning of the century with family memories of the prison during the occupation.

  3. Basilica of the Holy Cross: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    The final stop will complete the route with a private wish carried out between Paris and Warsaw.

  4. Castle Square: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    The layout of the open square will explain why a peaceful procession found itself facing soldiers without cover.

  5. Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalene: story on the “Praga-Północ: Warsaw's Right Bank” route

    Here, a church dispute will leave the metropolitan’s office and change the structure of Polish Orthodoxy.

  6. Fountain and Kino Muranów: story on the “Muranów: Jewish Memory and a Postwar Neighborhood” route

    This stop will show how an old urban feature and risky film distribution became part of everyday life in the new district.

  7. Krakowskie Przedmieście and St. Anne's Church: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    An engineering emergency will show how a postwar arterial road nearly destroyed a church that had already been restored.

  8. Main Gate of the University of Warsaw: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    The signs of the assault at the gate will explain why the campus was a military high ground and why the armored vehicle did not decide the outcome of the attack.

  9. Miła 18: a mound above the bunker: story on the “Muranów: Jewish Memory and a Postwar Neighborhood” route

    The mound preserves the prewar address and the memory of the encircled headquarters’ final hours, although the underground shelter itself is no longer visible.

  10. Monument to the Ghetto Heroes: story on the “Muranów: Jewish Memory and a Postwar Neighborhood” route

    The two sides of the monument provide the precise context for a political gesture that divided public opinion.

  11. Museum of Praga: story on the “Praga-Północ: Warsaw's Right Bank” route

    Here, a chance discovery will halt the demolition of dilapidated buildings and determine the address of the district's future museum.

  12. Old Town Market Square: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    This stop will link the vanished town hall to the townspeople's public demand to change the laws.

  13. POLIN: A Thousand Years Before the Finale: story on the “Muranów: Jewish Memory and a Postwar Neighborhood” route

    Here it becomes clear why the creators gave the Holocaust a precise place within a story a thousand years long.

  14. Royal Castle in Warsaw: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    The rescued details and restored clock will link the destruction of the residence to the years-long decision to return it to the city.

  15. Różycki Bazaar: story on the “Praga-Północ: Warsaw's Right Bank” route

    This stop will show how a ban on street trading turned an undeveloped private plot into a permanent market.

  16. St. John's Archcathedral: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    The story of the saved crucifix will explain why, during the fire, people risked their lives for a single figure.

  17. Stalowa Street and the Konopacki Palace: story on the “Praga-Północ: Warsaw's Right Bank” route

    The finale will show how a new settlement appeared on sandy ground and why its street received the name of a factory that operated only briefly.

  18. The Barbican and the City Walls: story on the “Rebuilt Warsaw: Warsaw Old Town and the Royal Route” route

    Here, the northern threshold of Old Warsaw and the price of entering through it will become clear.

  19. The Ghetto Boundary by Krasiński Garden: story on the “Muranów: Jewish Memory and a Postwar Neighborhood” route

    Here the route compares the park's present-day edge with the gates through which the district's final liquidation began.

  20. Umschlagplatz: story on the “Muranów: Jewish Memory and a Postwar Neighborhood” route

    The final stop will return names to people where they were once turned into anonymous cargo.

  21. Wileński Square: story on the “Praga-Północ: Warsaw's Right Bank” route

    This stop will explain how a railway designed to move troops became the beginning of an exiled scholar's journey.

  22. Ząbkowska Street, eleven: story on the “Praga-Północ: Warsaw's Right Bank” route

    The courtyard prayer hall shows how a room for prayer became a workshop, and how fragments of wall painting revealed its former purpose.

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