Multimedialny Park Fontann

This guide to the Multimedialny Park Fontann in Warsaw opens with the fog, lasers and towering water jets of a nighttime show, then asks why any of it exists here. It traces the story back to eighteen eighty-six, when British engineer William Lindley finished Warsaw's first modern waterworks and sewers, and follows the site through decades as a tired, algae-choked pond above his unglamorous pipework. A small bench honoring Lindley himself sits nearby, easy to miss among the crowds gathered on the grass.