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The Aviators Square, until 1945 known as the Augusta Square, is an
The urban square was constructed in the 1890s, as an recreational area. It has a form of a square at the street intersection, with paver flooring and urban green areas. It was surrounded by tenements.''Encyklopedia Szczecina'', vol. 1: ''A–O''. Szczecin: University of Szczecin, 1999, p. 552–553. ISBN 83-87341-45-2. (in Polish)
It was named ''Augusta Square'' (German: ''Augustaplatz''; Polish: ''Plac Augusty''), after Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the Queen of Prussia and the first German Empress. One of the intersecting roads, the Emperor William Street (now Pope John Paul II Avenue), was named after her husband, William I, the Emperor of Germany. In 1945, it was renamed to the ''Aviators Square''.
In the 1950s, around the square was constructed portion of the Downtown Residential District, consisting of several socialist-realist multifamily residential buildings. The square itself was also renovated and remodeled.B.Kozińska: ''Rozwój przestrzenny Szczecina od początku XIX wieku do II wojny światowej''. Szczecin: Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki Oddział Szczeciński, 2002.
On 21 August 2002, at the square was placed the monument dedicated to Bartolomeo Colleoni, a 15-century mercenary and a captain general in service of the Republic of Venice. It was ceremonially unveiled on 31 August 2002. The monument was originally made in 1919, as a copy of the
It has a form of a small square surrounded by road, which forms an intersection of Pope John Paul II Avenue, Jagiellońska Street, Kaszubska Street, Małopolska Street, and Mazurska Street. Its centre has paver flooring, while the outer portion consists of urban green area. It connects via a pathway with the Grunwald Square to the north, and the
urban square
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in Szczecin
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, Poland. It is located in the neighbourhood of Centrum, within the Downtown
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district, at the intersection of Pope John Paul II Avenue, Jagiellońska Street, Kaszubska Street, Małopolska Street, and Mazurska Street. It was opened in the 1890s.
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statue
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in Venice
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, Italy, originally designed by Andrea del Verrocchio, and relocated from Szczecin to Warsaw in 1948, before being returned in 2002.
Characteristics
It has a form of a small square surrounded by road, which forms an intersection of Pope John Paul II Avenue, Jagiellońska Street, Kaszubska Street, Małopolska Street, and Mazurska Street. Its centre has paver flooring, while the outer portion consists of urban green area. It connects via a pathway with the Grunwald Square to the north, and the Paweł Adamowicz Square
The Paweł Adamowicz Square is an urban square in Szczecin, Poland, in the neighbourhood of Centrum, within the Downtown district, between Pope John Paul II Avenue, Independence Avenue, and Aviators Square. It was opened in 2019.
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to the south. There is placed the monument dedicated to Bartolomeo Colleoni, a 15-century mercenary and a captain general in service of the Republic of Venice, dating to 1919.
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