Powązki Cemetery
Cmentarz Powązkowski
Warsaw's oldest cemetery, founded in 1790. It holds many notable Poles, and its gravestone carvings make it an open-air sculpture museum.
Powązki Cemetery (Old Powązki) was established in 1790 and is Warsaw's oldest and most famous burial ground. It covers about 43 hectares. Chopin's parents and family are buried here, along with the composer Stanisław Moniuszko, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Władysław Reymont, and many other notable figures, as well as fallen insurgents from the 1944 Uprising. Ancient trees shade the grounds, and the neoclassical and Art Nouveau gravestones are finely carved, which has earned the cemetery the name of an open-air sculpture museum. On 1 November, All Saints' Day, thousands of candles light up the entire cemetery, a moving sight. Entry is free, and visitors are asked to keep quiet.
Opening hours
Approx. 07:00–20:00 (shorter hours in winter)
Nearby sights
- Umschlagplatz Monument
- POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- Warsaw Rising Museum
- Warsaw Citadel
- Warsaw Uprising Monument
- New Town & Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum
- Warsaw Barbican & City Walls
- Multimedia Fountain Park