Warsaw Insurgents Square (Polish: ''Plac Powstańców Warszawy''), still popularly known by its former name Napoleon Square (Polish: ''Plac Napoleona''), is a square in the central Warsaw district of Śródmieście. Located at the junction of '' ulica Świętokrzyska'' (Holy Cross Street) and '' ulica Szpitalna'' (Hospital Street) and near '' Nowy Świat'' (New World Street), it is one of Warsaw's central squares. :pl:Plac Powstańców Warszawy w Warszawie Historically, the area was called ''Plac Warecki'' during the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and then Plac Napoleona under the

Second Polish Republic The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 1918 and 1939. The state was established on 6 November 1918, before the end of ...

. Most of the Square's buildings were destroyed in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, and the Square is now notable for only two landmarks: the seat of the Polish National Bank (which Varsovians irreverently call "''trumna''" — "the coffin"), and the former Prudential building, which was the second skyscraper to be built in Warsaw and the tallest until the 1950s.

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