Poland » Introduction of Warsaw

Warsaw has two lasting points of description: the Wisla River, running south to north across the Mazovian plains, and the Moscow–Berlin road, stretching across this terrain and through the city east to west. Such a site, and four hundred years of capital rank, has ensured a history summons large with occupations and uprisings, machinations and heroism.

Warsaw is a much livelier and more international place than its given credit for in the West. It is a little-known information, for example, that there are up to thirty two thousand Americans living in Warsaw much the same number as in Prague and since they're not all trying to write the Great American Novel, their contribution to the Polish capital has been more marked in terms of cuisine and sensible amenities.