Dom Urodzenia Fryderyka Chopina

"Frédéric Chopin was born in 1810 in a small 19th-century manor house in the town of Żelazowa Wola. While his family moved to Warsaw soon after his birth, he often returned to Żelazowa Wola for holidays, and his home—not to mention the sights and sounds of the surrounding Mazovian countryside—are said to have influenced his early music. Today, his house functions as a museum, and is surrounded by a serene, beautifully landscaped park. As you wander the home, imagine the concerts Chopin used to give as a young man on a grand piano that he placed under the linden trees in the garden. Reportedly, farmers from the area would join his family and friends to listen to him play. If you can, time your visit to coincide with one of the Chopin concerts, which are held every summer weekend on the terrace at noon and 3 p.m."

Where was ‘A Real Pain’ Filmed? All the locations from Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin’s Polish Road Trip Movie

Revisited by Eisenberg years before writing the film, the home of Poland’s greatest composer became an important artistic influence even though it does not appear as a physical location in the movie. Returning to Chopin’s work to score the film, he found that the music gave the story a sophisticated, slightly ‘removed’ tone that shaped the entire mood of A Real Pain; during editing, he and the editor felt that placing Chopin pieces in the right moments revealed ‘the tone of the movie’, underscoring the house’s indirect but significant impact on the film’s atmosphere. - Phil de Semlyen