Unfortunately, the famous Faras Gallery, Europe's largest collection of Nubian Christian art was under restoration and thus closed. Nonetheless, the visit was great, starting with the collection of medieval art which included objects coming from different regions of Poland and with some other examples from outside the country. There were several interesting wooden painted altarpieces coming mostly from the south and southwest. After that, we walked through the Gallery of Polish Paintings, the Gallery of 19th-century paintings and the part with European paintings and decorative arts. Among the many beautiful ones I particularly liked one of Poland's largest paintings by Jan Matejko and depicting the Battle of Grunwald, the two Canaletto showing Warsaw, and also managed to spot a few paintings depicting Venice.











