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WARSAW<br />
RIGHT: OLD TOWN<br />
SQUARE, ALSO KNOWN<br />
AS PLAC ZAMKOWY<br />
OR CASTLE SQUARE.<br />
BELOW: PRASKI PARK<br />
42 WIZZ MAGAZINE // FEBRUARY/MARCH <strong>2012</strong><br />
choix is Mad Dog (vodka, raspberry and<br />
a touch of Tabasco), and the arty hangout<br />
of Sen Pszyczoły. Before popping into the<br />
other one, at 11 Listopada 22, don’t miss<br />
Po Drugiej Stronie, a cult spot that purveys<br />
almost every obscure beer from behind<br />
the old Iron Curtain. Over at 11 Listopada,<br />
Saturator and Sklad butelek should<br />
ensure that it’s a long, late night in Praga.<br />
Saturator, opened by Marcin Brzozka and<br />
Mikolaj Starowiejsk – who played Bulgarian<br />
disco music in local band Extraordynara,<br />
closes when the last guest leaves.<br />
A RELAXING SUNDAY<br />
Take Sunday nice and slow by letting Rafal<br />
guide you around some of the lesser-known<br />
sights of the city centre.<br />
“What I love about my home town<br />
is the stories behind the architecture,”<br />
he says. “Warsaw was known as the Paris<br />
of the East before city planners completely<br />
restructured it.” With laminated copies<br />
of original black-and-white photographs<br />
on his lap, Rafal reveals the once elegant<br />
boulevards turned into broad avenues for<br />
parading soldiers, and graceful rond-points<br />
transformed into stark squares. Note<br />
the Socialist-Realist bas-reliefs on Plac<br />
Konstytucji, the former headquarters of the<br />
Communist Party, now a bland business
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