Before the war & today

Rynek Starego Miasta (Old Town Market Square)

looking north-west across the square towards the Dekert side

Rynek Starego Miasta (Old Town Market Square): Today
Rynek Starego Miasta (Old Town Market Square): 1
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The modern photo is aligned to the old camera angle (perspective correction only).

The houses of the Old Town Market Square kept their early-17th-century form almost unchanged until 1944, when the Old Town was destroyed during and after the Warsaw Uprising. In 1949–1953 the townhouses were carefully reconstructed using surviving stonework and fragments of painted decoration, and the square was reopened on 22 July 1953. The rebuilt Old Town has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980.

Three views

1 Original photograph
Henryk Poddębski, c. 1929 · Public domain (PD-old-70) · Wikimedia Commons
AI-restored The colours are a guess
The same photograph, upscaled with Real-ESRGAN and coloured by the DDColor model. This is not a historical record.
Today Recent photograph
Steven Lek, 2018-10-28 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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