Sadyba

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Sadyba
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°E / 52.188747; 21.068766Coordinates: 52°11′19″N 21°04′08″E / 52.188747°N 21.068766°E / 52.188747; 21.068766
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.

Jodłowa (Fir) Street on Sadyba in Autumn

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

v t e Neighbourhoods of Mokotów

Augustówka Czerniaków Ksawerów Old Mokotów Sadyba Siekierki Sielce Służew Służewiec Stegny Wierzbno Wyględów

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