Bielany, Warsaw — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Bielany?

Bielany keeps its landmarks in the monastery wood and the inter-war streets. The Camaldolese Church stands inside Las Bielański with Jan Stefan Wydżga's gatehouse beside it, the Brühl Palace north at Młociny, and Fort II Wawrzyszew, an outer work of the fortress, out west. Płatnicza Street and plac Konfederacji carry the low houses of Stare Bielany, with the Kościół św.

Zygmunta on the square. Saint Mary Magdalene Church serves Wawrzyszew. The Italian Soldiers Cemetery lies on Marymoncka Street.

The Powązki Military Cemetery, with its Katyń and Gloria Victis monuments, is often listed here but stands outside Bielany, in Żoliborz.

What is the history of Bielany?

Bielany was farmland and village before Warsaw reached it. Słodowiec and Wawrzyszew worked mills on the Rudawka, and in the later seventeenth century Jan Stefan Wydżga endowed the Camaldolese monks from the Bielany above Kraków, whose white habits named the ground. Młociny went its own way as a royal holding where Heinrich von Brühl raised a palace.

The forts came in the eighteen-eighties. Warsaw took in Stare Bielany and Słodowiec in 1916, the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education opened between the wars, and Nasz Dom brought Maryna Falska's orphanage here. Bielany was cut out of Żoliborz as its own district in 1994.

Where is Bielany?

Bielany fills the north-western corner of Warsaw, with Żoliborz along its southern edge, Bemowo to the south-west and the Vistula and Białołęka off to the east.