Sadyba
Sadyba | |
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Warsaw Neighborhood | |
Location of Sadyba within Mokotów according to City Information System in Warsaw | |
Coordinates: 52°11′19″N 21°04′08″E / 52.188747°N 21.068766°ECoordinates: 52°11′19″N 21°04′08″E / 52.188747°N 21.068766°E | |
Country | Poland |
Voivodeship | Masovian |
County/City | Warsaw |
Notable landmarks | Katyń Museum, Warsaw |
Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
• Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Area code(s) | +48 22 |
Website | sadyba.waw.pl |
Sadyba is a neighborhood in Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. It has an administrative status of osiedle within the city. Sadyba can be divided into Old Sadyba, mainly upper class housing, and New-Sadyba with modern retail stores and communist era high rise apartments. Old and New Sadyba can be divided roughly by Świętego Bonifacego street, just south of the Sadyba Best mall. Sadyba is known as the "Garden City" due to the large number of household and community gardens tended by the residents.
History
The Sadyba district was home to the Oasis Battalion (Batalionu Oaza) of the Polish Resistance.
Museums
Muzeum Katynskie (Katyn Museum) - A museum dedicated to the memory of the Katyn Massacre.
Muzeum Wojska Polskiego (Polish Military Museum) - A collection of Polish military equipment located at Fort Sadyba [1]
Famous residents
- Józef Beck - Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs[2]
- Marek Sart - Film composer
- Marek Kondrat - actor
- Jacek Żakowski - journalist
- Dariusz Rosati - Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Leszek Herdegen - poet
- Jerzy Janicki - writer
- Czesław Petelski - film director
- Stanisław Grochowiak - poet
- Jeremi Przybora - poet, writer, actor and singer
- Izydor Modelski - general of Polish Army
- Tadeusz Kasprzycki - general of Polish Army
- Tadeusz Piskor - general of Polish Army
Citations
- ↑ Poland 5th edition. Neil Wilson, Tom Parkinson, Richard Watkins, Lonely Planet Publications (Firm). 2005. p. 76. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
- ↑ Tomasz Urzykowski Oficerska Sadyba i Miasto Ogród Czerniaków 08.05.2008 http://warszawa.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,89378,5193535.html?as=4