Grabów, Warsaw
Grabów | |
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Terraced houses in Grabów, near Puławska Street, in 2022. | |
The location of the City Information System area of Grabów within the city district of Ursynów | |
| Coordinates: 52°08′42″N 21°00′58″E / 52.14500°N 21.01611°E | |
| Country | Poland |
| Voivodeship | Masovian |
| City and county | Warsaw |
| District | Ursynów |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code | +48 22 |
Grabów is a neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, located in Warsaw, Poland, within the district of Ursynów. It consists mostly of the low-rise residential buildings.
The area consists of two historical neighbourhoods of single-family detached homes, Grabów to the northeast, and Krasnowola in the southwest. Additionally in the north, there is the neighbourhood of Grabów, consisting of terraced houses. There is also located the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies, one of the largest high tech research facilities in Poland.
The oldest known records of Grabów, then a small village, date to the 18th century. In the 19th century, nearby were also founded villages of Grabówek, and Krasnowola In 1951, the area was incorporated into Warsaw. In the 1980s and 1990s, there was constructed the residential neighbourhood of Grabów, consisting of terraced houses.