Warsaw - On the footsteps of Chopin and Marie Curie

Museum Chopin

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Staszic Palace - Warsaw Science Society

On 6 June 1925, in the French Institute (in the Palace), Skłodowska gave a lecture on the functioning of the Paris Radium Institute.

Church Holy Cross

Holy Cross Church was the Chopins’ parish church when he lived in Krakowskie Przedmieście Street. Today, the church remains firmly associated with the composer because of the presence of the urn containing the heart of Fryderyk Chopin inside the walls, which, in accordance with the composer’s wishes, was brought to Poland by his elder sister, Ludwika.

University of Warsaw

Maria Skłodowska-Curie visited the University of Warsaw twice. In June 1919, the University awarded Maria Skłodowska-Curie with the title of Honorary Professor of the Philosophy Department. In October 1921, Maria participated in the inauguration of the academic year. She visited the University of Warsaw once again in 1925 to give a lecture on studies of radioactivity.

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Bristol Hotel

It was here in 1913, in the Raspberry Hall (pl. Sala Malinowa) of this particularly elegant hotel, where the Warsaw Scientific Society (pl. Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie) organized a banquet in honour of the two-time Nobel Prize laureate.

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Saxon garden

Autumn at Saxon Garden

Saint Anthony church

Opera Narodowa

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Museum of Industry and Agriculture

The Museum of Industry and Agriculture - an education and research facility - was founded in 1875 and housed physics and chemistry laboratories where Maria Skłodowska, began her scientific career and conducted her first experiments in 1890–91.

Castle Square

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Starego Miasta

Barbakan

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Marie Curie museum and birth place

Crossing the door of the tenement house at 16 Freta Street in Warsaw’s „New Town” district, we enter the house where Maria Skłodowska was born on November 7, 1867.

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Marie Curie

Krasiński Square (pl. plac Krasińskich)

The sounds of Chopin’s music were heard in this place - in the now non-existent building of the National Theater. It stood in the place where the Warsaw Uprising monument is located currently. Fryderyk Chopin gave his first performance there on March 17th 1830 and in October of the same year he played his final farewell concert at the National Theatre.

Miodowa Street – Honoratka Caffe

Chopin could often be seen on Krakowskie Przedmieście or Miodowa streets – rushing to his classes or to meet up with friends at one of his favourite cafes „Honoratka”, which drew people in for its delicious desserts and coffee with rum.

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Miodowa Street – Młodziejowski Palace

On the fence of the Młodziejowski Palace there is a plaque commemorating the first public performance of Fryderyk Chopin.

Musical bench at Kozia Street

Fryderyk Chopin often followed this way towards Miodowa Street, which at that time had no connection with Krakowskie Przedmieście St. In his day, the street was well-known for brothels, but also for numerous hotels and cafes, being a meeting place for writers and artists.

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56 Krakowskie Przedmieście St., Dziekanka (eng. clergy house)Foto

Józef Elsner, the teacher of Fryderyk Chopin, founder and director of the Warsaw Conservatory lived and worked in this house.

Wessel palace

It was from here that on 2 November 1830 Chopin set out on what would be his farewell journey from Poland and left his homeland forever.

Radziwiłł Palace

Radziwiłł Palace, today known as the Presidential Palace (pl. Pałac Prezydencki), situated on Krakowskie Przedmieście is believed to have been the venue for Fryderyk Chopin’s first public performance. The concert took place on 24 February 1818 and was organised at the charity initiative of Countess Zofia Zamoyska by the Warsaw Charitable Society, chaired at that time by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz. The brilliant young pianist, then eight years old, performed a piano concerto G minor of the Czech composer Adalbert Gyrowetz and delighted the audience. After the concert, the Warsaw’s press described Chopin as „little Chopin”, „a wonderful child” and „second Mozart”.

The Czapski / Krasiński Palace

The Czapski/Krasiński Palace was a yet another place where the Chopins lived. In 1827, following the death of Emilka, Fryderyk’s youngest sister, the Chopins moved to a larger apartment, rented in the left wing of Krasiński Palace on Krakowskie Przedmieście (plot no. 410). Here Fryderyk was given his own room to work in.