Tourism Returns!

Newly-released stats have shown Warsaw’s tourist sector is set for a long-awaited post-Covid rebound.

Last year saw the Mazovia region visited by 14.2 million people, a million more than 2021.

Of this number, 3.3 million visited Warsaw.

Now, authorities are hoping that 2023 will see figures surpass 2019’s pre-Covid record of 15.2 million

Certainly, Warsaw’s museums are bracing for an uptick courtesy of renewed foreign, domestic and local interest. Held in May, the annual Night of Museums events saw previous records smashed after attracting a turnout of 245,000

Of the most visited institutions, the Museum of the University of Warsaw topped the charts after drawing 21,000 over the course of the evening.

The National Museum came second with 13,500 visitors and the Royal Castle came third with 11,000.

Dismantled in the 90s to make way for a pavilion that today houses Biedronka, a charming fountain has been returned to the northern district of Muranów. Found in the courtyard of Nowolipie 21, the fountain cost in excess of PLN 230,000 and was built after getting 500 votes in a 2018 poll held to decide how the city’s participatory funds would be spent.

First appearing in the 1960s when it was knocked down three decades later only the four frog sculptures that ringed it were saved. For a time, two of them could be found adorning the Biedronka that took its place. Subject to a careful restoration process, the quad squad of frogs made their comeback in mid-May and can now be found staring towards an environmentally friendly fountain located a short walk from where the original once stood.