Złota Street a Varsavia (Polonia) nel 1919 e ora

What an ugly concrete block the soviets put there… Must have been even worse back in the day when there were literally no buildings standing around after 45.

Palace of culture and plato with parks around is so cool tho. It is the symbol of the city when people say Warsaw. Kinda like Turin and the Mola, you can always estimate where you are by checking on it. And the architecture is all monumental and quite pretty actually then with modern skyscrapers behind it it’s a great contrast especially for photos. It’s also relatively close to the old city. The scenery of walking from the old city to the modern areas is striking.

As controversial as some think, the fact is that every city has the big shopping district.. Its kinda like Bucharest and Budapest, sure that giant palaces destroyed a bunch of streets and buildings to be built, but those cities would not be recognizable without them.

Whatever its provenance, that building has become the defining, almost iconic, landmark of Warsaw and its skyline would be very generic without it

The soviets turned a beautiful piece of livable urban landscape into a tank friendly hellscape nobody wants to spend time at. Same thing they did to multiple other Eastern European countries.

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The saddest thing on the modern photo is that on the lower part we can see a plaque in the square surface stating that ***Złota Street used to be in this place***.