The three bays
All that remains of the Saxon Palace.
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The names of Polish battles across a thousand years — from the first Piast wars to both World Wars — reading an astonishing geography: Tobruk, Monte Cassino, the Battle of Britain — for occupied Poland fought on every Allied front with her exile armies. The soldier unknown, the epics known.
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is Warsaw's deliberately kept wound: three arcade bays are all that remains of the great Saxon Palace the Nazis blew apart — and when everything else was rebuilt, the tomb was left in its palace's ruin on purpose: the monument is absence itself, the eternal flame between shrapnel-bitten columns and the battle plaques of a thousand years. Its guard changes hourly around the clock in strict rite (Sunday noon the great ceremony with its music) — and here the nation prays all its official days. Behind it the Saxon Garden (1727) is among the world's first public parks: baroque statues, a fountain, a lake and ancient chestnuts — the centre's green rest between square and old town, and practically the Royal Route's western gate. The trio's reverent half-hour falls on every walk by verdict.
All that remains of the Saxon Palace.
The strict rite around the clock.
Plac Piłsudskiego, 00-078 Warsaw