Praga Poludnie Guide: Kings, Parks and the Right Bank

Across the river from the centre stretches Praga Południe, one of the oldest districts on the right bank of the Vistula. The City of Warsaw's district profile records settlements and villages - Kamion, Grochów and Gocław - developing here between the 11th and 14th centuries, and history followed: the battle with the Swedes in 1656, the elections of Polish kings on the fields of Kamion and Grochów, and the Battle of Olszynka Grochowska in 1831.

Skaryszewski Park

The district's green jewel is Skaryszewski Park, an English-style landscape park with lakes and monumental plane trees, often named among the most beautiful parks in Poland.

Saska Kepa

Saska Kępa, the garden quarter of pre-war modernist villas along Francuska Street, is the district's cafe and restaurant heart - and one of the most pleasant walking areas in Warsaw.

The river edge

On the Vistula side, the National Stadium anchors a strip of riverfront parks and beaches - see our Warsaw beaches guide. Across the district border to the north, Praga Północ continues the right-bank story.

Visiting

The National Stadium has its own metro station on line M2; buses and trams cross the district along Grochowska street and Aleja Waszyngtona.