a colossal wedding-cake-style gift from Stalin that still dominates Warsaw’s skyline. When the Palace was built in the 1950s over a city still mostly in ruins, many considered it an ugly symbol ...

I’m in the same square I pass through every other day, one of Warsaw’s finest, Plac Unii Lubelskiej. It’s a nice sunny day and the elegant tenement houses in the east look exceptional in the late ...

WARSAW, Poland – Some Poles liken the skyscraper to an elephant in lace underpants. A famous poet dubbed it “the nightmare of a drunken baker.” And one joke goes that it provides the best ...