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== Architecture ==

== Architecture ==

Warsaw possesses a wide variety of architectural monuments, whether as replicas or originals. In the Old Town, which was designated by [[UNESCO]] as a [[World Heritage Site]] in 1980, the [[Gothic]] [[St. John’s]] [[Cathedral]] and the red-brick fortifications known as the Barbican remain from the medieval period. The houses of the Old Town Market Square have been rebuilt in the splendour of their 15th-century style. There are many [[Baroque]] [[church]]es of the Counter-Reformation period, including the [[Jesuit]] Church next to the cathedral and the Church of the Holy Cross, which contains the heart of the Polish French composer [[Frédéric Chopin]]. The magnificently reconstructed Royal Castle, decorated in late 18th-century style, is on Zamkowy Square. Other royal and aristocratic palaces are at Łazienkowski Park and at John III Sobieski’s Wilanów. South of Łazienkowski Park is Belweder (Belvedere) Palace, a former presidential residence used now for ceremonial occasions. Remnants of the tsarist era are evident in the Church of St. Alexander in the middle of Trzech Krzyży Square and in the vast Alexander Citadel on the riverside, north of the New Town. The city’s modern architecture is generally regarded as undistinguished. Although the prewar garden suburbs of Żoliborz and Saska Kępa have survived, the vast sprawl of contemporary suburbia is made up in large part of seemingly endless expanses of uniform, prefabricated concrete apartment blocks.

Warsaw possesses a wide variety of architectural monuments, whether as replicas or originals. In the Old Town, which was designated by [[UNESCO]] as a [[World Heritage Site]] in 1980, the [[Gothic]] St. John’s [[Cathedral]] and the red-brick fortifications known as the Barbican remain from the medieval period. The houses of the Old Town Market Square have been rebuilt in the splendour of their 15th-century style. There are many [[Baroque]] [[church]]es of the Counter-Reformation period, including the [[Jesuit]] Church next to the cathedral and the Church of the Holy Cross, which contains the heart of the Polish French composer [[Frédéric Chopin]]. The magnificently reconstructed Royal Castle, decorated in late 18th-century style, is on Zamkowy Square. Other royal and aristocratic palaces are at Łazienkowski Park and at John III Sobieski’s Wilanów. South of Łazienkowski Park is Belweder (Belvedere) Palace, a former presidential residence used now for ceremonial occasions. Remnants of the tsarist era are evident in the Church of St. Alexander in the middle of Trzech Krzyży Square and in the vast Alexander Citadel on the riverside, north of the New Town. The city’s modern architecture is generally regarded as undistinguished. Although the prewar garden suburbs of Żoliborz and Saska Kępa have survived, the vast sprawl of contemporary suburbia is made up in large part of seemingly endless expanses of uniform, prefabricated concrete apartment blocks.

== Culture ==

== Culture ==