Muranów - a housing estate built on the ruins of the ghetto. Guided walk

About the event

Today's Muranów is a unique place on a global scale, as the entire district was built on the ruins and from the rubble of the ghetto, which was razed to the ground during World War II. Walking through modern Muranów, it is difficult to find traces of the former Jewish district. After the war, a new district was created, with new houses, new roads and sidewalks laid over the grid of old streets, some streets were moved to completely different locations, others changed their names, and a few disappeared entirely. Bohdan Lachert, the designer of the residential district (as he called it himself), wanted it to be a kind of monument towering over Warsaw's city center, commemorating the destroyed Northern District. An extraordinary "Phoenix from the ashes"—a symbol of life's victory over death: new life was meant to sprout from the processed ruins. However, the political realities of those times significantly influenced Lachert's outlined plan for a modernist housing estate. Due to the prevailing doctrine of socialist realism in architecture, parts of the district's design were altered, combining modernist architecture with elements of socialist realism. During the walk, we will learn, among other things: - Where the criminals' asylum was located - What King Stefan Batory funded - Why the fountain moved so many times - Why we have to climb stairs - What the father of a famous TV presenter designed - What the secret of Muranów's windows is - Where the Freemasons had their lodge - What the annex of the Działyński Palace hides - What Janusz Korczak's phenomenal marketing project looked like - What Dirty Harry will tell us - Where Chopin performed concerts in Muranów - Where Babylon was located - and many other colorful stories about people and places connected to our walking route. 📅 Start: 12.09 (Friday), 5 PM, at the entrance to the Arsenal, ul. Długa 52 ⏳ Duration of the tour: approximately 90 minutes 📍 End: ul. Andersa 13 (Okrąglak) The walk will be led by KASIA - a licensed Warsaw guide and native Varsovian. 📞 Tel. 505 023 782 Participation in the walk is free, but tips after the walk will be appreciated. We gently remind you that we put a lot of substantive and documentary work into preparing the walk to make it as attractive as possible for you.