Palace of the treasury minister, and the ministry's seat.

Porczyńskis' gallery, former seat of the Bank of Poland and the stock exchange. Bank Polski (the Bank of Poland) is the name of two former Banks in Poland, each of which acted as a Central bank. A stock exchange, share market or bourse is a Corporation or Mutual organization which provides "trading" facilities for Stock

Bank Square (Polish: Plac Bankowy) in Warsaw is one of that city's principal squares. Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Located in Warsaw's downtown area, next to the Saxon Garden and the Warsaw Arsenal, it is also one of the city's main public transport hubs, with several bus stops, streetcar stops, and a Warsaw Metro station. Śródmieście ("city centre" is the central borough of the city of Warsaw. The Saxon Garden ( Polish: Ogród Saski) is a 155 Hectare public garden in Warsaw 's Downtown ( Śródmieście Warsaw Arsenal (Arsenał warszawski is a building of a military Arsenal in Warsaw, Poland A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railborne vehicle, of lighter weight and construction than a Train Metro Ratusz Arsenał is a Warsaw Metro station located under the Bankowy Square in the borough of Śródmieście.

History

Created in the 19th century, under the Congress Kingdom, the square was designed to be one of the elegant areas of the country's capital. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Congress Poland Kongresówka, officially and formally Kingdom of Poland (Królestwo Polskie {{IPA-pl|'|p|o|l|s|kʲ|e}} Царство Польское Tsarstvo Polskoye Notable buildings located there included the seat of the Ministry of Income and Treasury (a building reconstructed by Antonio Corazzi) and the seat of the Bank of Poland and Warsaw's stock exchange (also by Corazzi). Antonio Corazzi ( December 16 1792 - April 26 1877) was an Italian Architect who designed a number of buildings in Bank Polski (the Bank of Poland) is the name of two former Banks in Poland, each of which acted as a Central bank. A stock exchange, share market or bourse is a Corporation or Mutual organization which provides "trading" facilities for Stock The square was originally triangular-shaped. A triangle is one of the basic Shapes of Geometry: a Polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are Line

In the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the buildings on the square were destroyed and the square ceased to exist. The Warsaw Uprising ( Powstanie Warszawskie) was a World War II struggle by the Polish Home Army ( Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw After the war, city planners reconstructed only its historic western part, reconfiguring it into a rectangle. In Geometry, a rectangle is defined as a Quadrilateral where all four of its angles are Right angles A rectangle with vertices ABCD would be denoted as

Under the communist People's Republic of Poland, the square was renamed for Feliks Dzierżyński, Polish-born communist politician and founder of the Russian Cheka political police. The People's Republic of Poland or Polish People's Republic ( Polish: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL Russian Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ( Polish: Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский Belarusian The Cheka ( ЧК - чрезвычайная комиссия Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya,) was the first of a succession of Soviet State security In 1951 a monument to Dzierżyński was erected in the southern part of the square. The statue's subsequent toppling four decades later, in 1989, helped mark the fall of communism in Poland.

Present day

The Bank Square's present-day landmarks include the Blue Tower, a large skyscraper built on the site of the Great Synagogue that had been destroyed during the war by the Germans. A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable Building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper The Great Synagogue of Warsaw was the largest Synagogue of pre-war Warsaw and one of the largest in the world at the time

Currently the former seat of the Ministry of Treasury serves as Warsaw's city hall and the seat of the President of Warsaw. A city hall or town hall is the chief administrative building of a City or Town 's administration and usually houses the city or In 2001 a monument to Juliusz Słowacki, by Edward Wittig, was erected on the very spot previously occupied by the statue of Dzierżyński. Juliusz Słowacki ( 4 September 1809 in Kremenets, Volhynia, Russian Empire now in Ukraine &ndash 3 April Edward Wittig ( 1879-09-20 – 1941-03-03) was a Polish sculptor and university professor notable for designing many Monuments Interestingly, the old pedestal was used for the new monument. Pedestal (from French piedestal, Italian piedistallo, foot of a stall is a term generally applied to the support of a Statue or a Vase

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