Warsaw Uprising 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 The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...

and then Plac Napoleona under the Second Polish Republic. Most of the Square's buildings were destroyed in the 1944

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...

, 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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