Mazovia - Tourism

Tourism

Kampinos National Park is one of Poland’s largest national parks and is popular with tourists making day trips from Warsaw to hike among the park’s primeval forests, sand dunes, and marshland. The main cultural centre of the province, and, alongside Kraków, in all of Poland, is Warsaw, which is home to dozens of theatres, the National Philharmonic, the National Opera House, the National Library, and the National Museum. Warsaw has many magnificent historic buildings and monuments, including those in the Old Town (founded at the turn of the 14th century) and the New Town (begun in the 15th century), both of which were almost completely demolished during World War II but were meticulously restored and were designated UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1980. Historical monuments elsewhere include the manor house in Żelazowa Wola where composer Frédéric Chopin was born and that today contains the Chopin Museum. Płock, once the seat of the Mazovian and Płock princes from the 12th to the 15th century, is noted for its Renaissance cathedral.