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An observation deck at the top of the European Union’s tallest building, Varso Tower in Warsaw, has opened to the public.
Located 230 metres up on the tower’s 53rd floor, the attraction, known as Highline Warsaw, offers a 360° panorama of Poland’s capital and largest city. Visitors are shuttled up to the deck in a glass-enclosed lift that also offers views over Warsaw.
A “rooftop lounge” on the 49th floor also offers food and drink – though local news website Raport Warszawski notes that, for now, all beers and cocktails are alcohol free. The development includes an “experience room” on the 46th floor that offers visitors a multimedia “journey through Warsaw’s history”.
🚀 Warsaw just unlocked a new way to touch the sky!
Varso Tower (310m) – the tallest building in the EU has opened its 360° terrace Highline Warsaw at 230m.🎟 Tickets from Sept 9 https://t.co/VmjvNifpxj (45 PLN online / 70 PLN on-site).
Open daily 10:00–22:00.Includes:
•… pic.twitter.com/UdIDNs8qrP— Go2Warsaw (@Go2Warsaw) September 3, 2025
Warsaw was almost completely destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany in World War Two and was rebuilt by the Soviet-installed communist authorities in the decades that followed.
Perhaps the most famous example of that reconstruction – the Stalinist Palace of Culture and Science – stands close by and was the city’s tallest building until Varso Tower opened in 2022.
Varso reaches a height of 310 metres when its 80-metre spire is included. That meant that it overtook the EU’s previous tallest building, Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Tower (259 metres). It is also fractionally taller than London’s Shard (309.6 metres).
The tallest building in Europe remains Saint Petersburg’s Lakhta Centre (462 metres), while Moscow also has four skyscrapers taller than Varso.
Warsaw's Varso Tower is now the tallest building in the EU, after reaching its full height of 310m.
It surpasses Germany's Commerzbank Tower and The Shard in London. It also overtakes the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw's tallest building since 1955 https://t.co/FxVZlkH7F5
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) February 22, 2021
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Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland. He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, EUobserver and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
