Historical Adventure Tour Warsaw Spies The Heroes and the Beasts

Historical Adventure Tour Warsaw Spies The Heroes and the Beasts

This tour will make you learn about Warsaw and some of the most important heroes of the World War II and communism, such as:
- Witold Pilecki, the only volunteer to Auschwitz
- Kazimierz Leski, who in the guise of a Wehrmacht general obtained secret documents of the Atlantic Wall
- Krystyna Skarbek, known as "Churchill's favourite spy" or
- mathematicians who broke the Enigma code.

Not only will you learn their stories, but also you will see some of the most emblematic sites, such as:
- Krasinski Square, with the Warsaw Rising Monument and the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army
- Bank Square
- Wojska Polskiego Avenue, where Witold Pilecki was arrested by the Nazi Germans
- Pilsudski Square, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Trzech Krzyzy Square
- Rozbrat St
- Rakowiecka St, seat of an infamous communist politcial prison.

You will learn to read a "city code", immortalized in Warsaw's layout, architecture, decorations, which can be useful in the future to understand other cities.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Field Cathedral of the Polish Army, Dluga 13/15, Warsaw Poland

Here we will get familiar with the idea of the tour, learn a general historical background of Poland and about some of the main characters of the tour.

Duration: 20 minutes