To be honest, Ye Chao's first stop in Poland was Warsaw, not because of its prosperity, but because Ye Chao likes to go to its capital first every time he goes to a country.

Of course, it is not without exceptions.

Warsaw (ARSA) is the capital of the Republic of Poland, the capital of Masovian Province, the political, economic and cultural center of Poland, and the largest city.

Located on the banks of the Vistula River, in central Poland, it has a city population of 1.7 million and a metropolitan area of 2.78 million and an urban area of 512 square kilometers.

Warsaw is a modern metropolis, the headquarters of the European Union, the ninth largest capital city of the European Union, and one of the 19 first-tier cities in the world.

It is home to a handful of cities in the European Union, along with Frankfurt, London, Moscow and Paris, with skyscrapers of skyscrapers.

Warsaw is a historic city where the famous Warsaw Convention was signed.

Warsaw is a major trade route between Central and European countries, and has been a very prosperous place since ancient times. From the 10th century AD there were settlements, in the 13th century it received city status, in the 15th century the city began to have a certain size and has always been the largest city in Poland.

Occupied during World War I and World War II, it was severely damaged in World War II, but it has been restored to become a beautiful city in the decades after the war.

Warsaw is one of the greenest cities in the world.

There are 65 large and small parks, and the streets are verdant, with green lawns and small flower beds, and the whole city is surrounded by green flowers. The city has a total area of 12,600 hectares of green space, accounting for about 27% of the total area of the city, and occupies 77.7 square meters per capita, ranking first among major cities in the world.

One of the characteristics of Warsaw's greening is that the green city is not like an island in the sea, but is connected with the shelterbelt in the suburbs, and the urban and suburban areas become a complete greening system.

Warsaw, pronounced Walschava in Polish, is a name in honor of the brave spirit of a couple named Walsey and Sava who broke through many obstacles and finally became husband and wife.

In Poland, the outlet to the sea is on the Vistula River in the Pilo Sea, and legend has it that there are mermaids.

A young man named Wall and a young woman named Shawa sailed down the river to Warsaw, the capital of Poland, to establish their homeland, and the mermaids in the river were their witnesses and shelters.

It gradually developed into a city, and in order to commemorate them, the two of them were collectively named "Warsaw" as the name of the city, and at the same time, the image of a mermaid was used as the emblem of Warsaw.

In 1936, the famous Polish sculptor Rudwika Krakowska Nitzhova began to sculpt a statue of a mermaid, which, like other mermaids, has a nude young girl on the upper body and a fishtail on the bottom.

The difference is that the statue of the mermaid in Warsaw is tall, and the girl holds her head high, holding the shield in her left hand and holding a sharp sword in her right hand, creating a heroic image of defending the motherland.

Today, in front of the mermaid statue, there are bouquets of flowers all year round, showing the love of the Polish people for their homeland. Inhabited in the 10th and early 11th centuries, the city was founded in the middle of the 13th century and became its capital in 1596.

Warsaw, a world-famous city, was founded in the 13th century as a medieval town on the Vistula River crossing.

In Polish, Warsaw is Walschava, and legend has it that a couple of lovers named Walsey and Shawa bravely resisted the king's obstruction and finally got married.

The courage of the young lovers was so admired that the city was named after them, which later became Warsaw.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, it was under foreign rule for more than 200 years, and in 1919 it became the capital of Poland.

In 1596, King Sigismunt Vasa III of Poland moved the royal family and central government from Krakow to Warsaw, making it the capital.

Warsaw was badly damaged in a war of 1655–1657 and was repeatedly occupied and ruled by foreign races in the following centuries.

In 1918, Warsaw again became the capital of Poland.

In the Second World War, the beautiful ancient city of Warsaw was severely damaged, almost razed to the ground, more than 85% of the city's buildings were destroyed, and those magnificent classical buildings were almost gone, and there were ruins everywhere, and the scorched earth was everywhere. Some Westerners once asserted: "Warsaw will not reappear on earth, and there is no hope for at least 100 years." ”

But the facts answer the opposite.

In 1920, it had a population of more than one million, making it one of the largest cities in Europe at that time.

It was badly damaged in World War II and quickly rebuilt after the war. There are many industrial sectors, most famous for the machinery manufacturing industry, including motors, precision machinery, machine tools, aircraft, automobiles, agricultural machinery and other departments, and chemical (pharmaceutical, plastic, chemical fiber), textile, food processing and other industries are also developed.

It is also the largest printing industry center in the country.

There are many institutions of higher learning, such as the Polish Academy of Sciences, many research institutes and societies, and the country's largest comprehensive university.

It is famous for its high degree of greenery, with an urban green area of 126 square kilometers and 67 large and small parks. The northwestern suburb of Gera Zova Walla is the hometown of the musician Chopin.

When the plane arrives over Warsaw, you will be greeted by a beautiful and spectacular natural landscape. The sparkling river Vistula is like a jade belt around the waist of Warsaw, the majestic old city of Warsaw stands on the riverbank, and the European medieval red spire buildings are lined up one after another.

On the iron bridge across the Vistula River, there is a bustling scene. On both sides of the lively street, the houses are towering, the trees are lined with trees, and the lawns stretch into the distance, and the whole city is like a giant ship moored in a sea of green.

After Warsaw emerged from the war in 1945, the city was rebuilt as it was, not only maintaining the appearance of a medieval old city, but also building a new urban area that exceeded the pre-war scale and level. In the process of reconstruction, special attention was paid to the preservation and restoration of historical monuments, and almost all of the more than 900 buildings of historical significance in the city before the war were restored and renovated, and those former palaces, churches, castles, etc. are even more majestic.

In the early days of post-war reconstruction, the Polish government formulated a plan to build Warsaw into a "modern city full of greenery".

The city's existing forests and green spaces have been preserved and utilized as much as possible, and the surrounding forests have not been destroyed by large-scale reconstruction. In order to reduce industrial pollution in the city, factories are built away from residential buildings in the city center.

The houses in the city are kept in light colors, and the whole city looks fresh and elegant.

The beautiful Vistula River flows quietly through the city from south to north, and the trees and grass along its banks are lush with greenery. Streets and residential areas are vigorously greened, and lawns are planted under the trees, and there is hardly a single bare land in the city.