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.
Sadyba | |
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 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°E | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| County/City | Warsaw |
| Notable landmarks | Katyń Museum, Warsaw |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +48 22 |
| Website | sadyba.waw.pl |
History
editThe Sadyba district was home to the Oasis Battalion (Batalionu Oaza) of the Polish Resistance.
Museums
edit- Katyń Museum (Muzeum Katynskie) - A museum dedicated to the memory of the Katyn Massacre.[1]
- Polish Army Museum (Muzeum Wojska Polskiego) - A collection of Polish military equipment located at Fort Sadyba.[2]
Famous residents
edit- Józef Beck - Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs[3]
- 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
edit- ^ "Muzeum Wojska Polskiego". www.muzeumwp.pl. Archived from the original on 2007-03-20.
- ^ Poland 5th edition. Neil Wilson, Tom Parkinson, Richard Watkins, Lonely Planet Publications (Firm). 2005. p. 76. ISBN 9781740595223. 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
External links
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