The monument "A Song for Warsaw" (Piosenka dla Warszawy) by Janina (Nina) Mirecka, 1974.

Wars and Sawa are the legendary characters whom Warsaw took its name from.
The legend tells of how King Kazimierz Odnowiciel (a famous Polish King who reigned in Krakow during the first half of the 11th century), when making his yearly visit north on the Vistula River, ordered his ship to stop after smelling the fresh scent of home cooked food from a lone shore-side cabin. After disembarking and reaching the cabin, he was greeted warmly by a woman, who told him that her husband (a fisherman aptly named Piotr Rybak) would shortly return with freshly caught fish. The King was delighted, and when Piotr returned, they feasted.

During dinner the couple told the king of their troubles. Having recently given birth to twins they were struggling to baptise the children, as there was no church or practicing priest in the district. After trying to reward the two's hospitality with gold, and receiving nothing but humble refusals, the King determined to be the children's godfather, and to organise the baptism himself.

Soon after the twins were baptised on a hill overlooking the cabin at the side of the Vistula. The King named them Wars and Sawa (a boy and a girl), and also announced that he intended to make the hospitable fisherman lord over the surrounding lands. Finally, the King said that a town would one day spring up around the fisherman's home, and when it did, it should be named after the newly baptised twins. Wars and Sawa, thus becomes Warsawa.