Saxon Garden: Our most recommended tours and activities

Warsaw: Self-Guided Highlights Scavenger Hunt & Walking Tour

1. Warsaw: Self-Guided Highlights Scavenger Hunt & Walking Tour

Get to know Warsaw at your own pace on this interactive scavenger hunt walking tour played on your phone. Decipher riddles, interact with the most important attractions of the city, and unlock interesting facts and legends. An ideal outdoor activity for first time visitors, couples, groups, families, and children. Can be used as a great team-building activity. To get started, download the tour app (download credentials received via email after booking), then set out on an adventure to explore this iconic city. You can start the activity at any time. At each stop, learn about the attraction and solve a location-based riddle that can only be solved if you reach the specific location. Use logic, imagination, observation, and team spirit to unlock the correct code and reveal the next destination of the city sightseeing game. When you begin, work with your team or compete against them as you make your way around the city. Walk to all the best landmarks and hidden gems, and solve challenges. Start your tour at the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin with the beautiful architecture! Visit the New Town Square that was built because of the victory against the Ottomans and learn about the imposing Krasiński Palace. Photograph the Barbican in its beautiful red color and admire the Stare Miasto, where so many stories have been written. Afterwards, the Royal Castle awaits you for a royal tour. Teatr Wielki's will leave you speechless, since the wonderful sculpture on its facade is straight out of a fairy tale. Admire Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with its heavy history! The Great Fountain will amaze you in the dreamy garden, while the Palace of Culture and Science with its unique exhibits will be the icing on the cake of this unique tour. Scavenger hunts are great as an everyday activity, for bachelor or bachelorette parties, birthday parties, or team-building events.

Warsaw: 2-Hour Chopin's Life Walking Tour

2. Warsaw: 2-Hour Chopin's Life Walking Tour

Warsaw’s most famous resident was Frederick Chopin, a great pianist and a world famous composer. Marked with the stamp of disease, the musical genius and romantic spent 20 years of his life in Warsaw. He grew up, learnt music, made friends, and gave his first ever concerts here. He met his first love here and many years later it was here that his heart came to rest. Warsaw houses the largest collection of the composer's memorabilia in the world. This 2-hour chill-out walking tour on the trail of Chopin is a journey in time which will take you back 200 years to 19th century Warsaw. You will see the places Chopin lived and where he spent his time. You will also discover what shaped his personality and musical creativity, who played an important role in his life, and why he left Poland. Furthermore, you will visit the interactive Chopin Museum, one of the most modern biographical museums in Europe. You will be able to experience the Saxon Garden, the Radziwił Palace, the Church of the Holy Cross and the Chopin Museum. You will of course also get to listen to the music of Chopin on this relaxing 2-hour tour.

Warsaw City Full-Day Private Panoramic Car & Walking Tour

3. Warsaw City Full-Day Private Panoramic Car & Walking Tour

Get to know the sights in Poland's capital on a full-day tour to explore the city of Warsaw. With the company of a private guide, visit some of the most important sites from the city's long and remarkable past, all as you get to know the city's background and its role in the history of Poland. Start your route with a visit to the city's Old Town. Now inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, after World War II, much of Warsaw lay in ruins. It has been painstakingly restored to its former glory, with buildings dating from the 13th to the 20th-century. Pass the former residence of Polish monarchs at the Royal Castle, the Baroque edifice of Krasinski Palace, the modern columns of the Supreme Court building, and the monument dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Visit the city's largest park, Lazienki Park, where you see the famous monument to Frédéric Chopin. During World War II, the Royal Lazienki was extensively plundered and heavily damaged by the German occupiers. In 1960, after many years of careful restoration, the Royal Lazienki was returned to the Polish people as a museum. Walk around the sublime park with its serene Palace on the Water, see the beautiful Orangery and Amphitheater, and admire the exquisite Island Theatre, nestled among the sound of ducks and swans. Take the chance to relax in the beautiful rose garden and among the outstanding nature of this place. Explore the Jewish part of Warsaw. Poles and Jews coexisted side by side on Polish territory for seven centuries. You can still find many traces of Jewish heritage in our country, whether material, like historical architecture, or immaterial, like recurring cultural events, trails, traditions and cuisine. Stop by the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and Umschlagplatz Monument, the place from which Jewish people were transported to the extermination camp in Treblinka. Listen to the tragic story of Warsaw Jews. Walk inside the ghetto part and see the fragments of the ghetto wall. Cross the bridge to east side of Vistula River and discover a different face of the Polish capital, the most authentic part of the city. Take a walk along the most famous street Zabkowska. Look out for surprises in the most unexpected places. Discover shrines hidden away in the courtyards. Seek out the original murals found in the area. Step into the Bazaar Rozyckiego, Warsaw’s oldest market. Taste the best pyzy and flaki in Warsaw. Relax in a luxury car on the way back to your hotel.

Warsaw: Old Town and Royal Route 2-Hour Tour

4. Warsaw: Old Town and Royal Route 2-Hour Tour

Explore Warsaw’s historic old town with your knowledgeable guide, starting off at Sigismund’s Column and continuing to iconic landmarks such as the Royal Castle and St. John’s Cathedral. Continue walking through Warsaw’s romantic medieval streets and observe some of the visible scars remaining from World War II. Enjoy a panoramic view of the Vistula River from Gnojna Hill and then enter the gardens behind the royal castle where you can see the beautiful facade. Afterward, head to the vibrant market square with its beautifully restored houses and continue to the Royal Route, where you will find many important buildings from both historical and architectural standpoints. See St. Ann's Church and head further down the street to the presidential palace, Bristol Hotel, Visitationist Convent, Warsaw University, and Holy Cross Church where Frederick Chopin’s heart is interred. Walk past the Zachęta National Gallery, a beautiful building from the early 1900s, before ending at Saxon Garden and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Warsaw: Half-Day Private Chopin Tour to Zelazowa Wola

5. Warsaw: Half-Day Private Chopin Tour to Zelazowa Wola

This sightseeing tour (5-hours) visiting some of the places associated with the famous Polish composer Frederic Chopin covers both Warsaw and Zelazowa Wola. On the way to Zelazowa Wola, you will have an opportunity to enjoy the Mazovian countryside. The price includes transportation and a professional guide. This fascinating tour will take you to interesting places such as the following: - Łazienki Garden: monument to Frederic Chopin - The Royal Route: Belvedere Palace, Warsaw Univesity, The Academy of Fine Arts, Holy Cross Church, Convent of the Holy Visit, and Presidential Palace - Ostrogski Castle: Frederic Chopin Museum - Saxon Garden  - Visit to Żelazowa Wola: the birthplace of Frederic Chopin

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What people are saying about Saxon Garden

Overall rating

4.6 / 5

based on 27 reviews

Mary was a great guide - very informative and friendly. We travelled in Chopin’s footsteps all around the town and learned all about his life. Would recommend

It was great fun. The whole tour was not too long and not too short. All puzzles were solvable, even if we needed a hint from time to time.

Very difficult if it is not your native language. And it may be clearer whether you are looking for letters or numbers.

An absolute must for any Chopin fan! George was a fantastic guide and there were so many sights to see.