Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw

Set beneath the surviving colonnade of the demolished Saxon Palace on Piłsudski Square, this national memorial honours the anonymous soldiers who died for Poland. Established in 1925, it holds the remains of an unidentified defender of Lwów alongside urns of soil from battlefields. An eternal flame burns before the tomb, and a military guard stands watch day and night, with an hourly changing ceremony drawing onlookers. Wreath-laying by visiting heads of state makes it a focus of Polish public remembrance.