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The buildings of Piwna Street were destroyed in 1944 and pulled down before 1952. Then they were replaced by pseudo-antique facades , into which preserved fragments of old details were incorporated (for example, at nr 31 there is an original portal from XVII century). The sgraffiti come from 1953 - 1954 (designed by, among others, Edmund Burke, Julia Berla, Grzegorz Wdowicki and Zofia Czarnocka-Kowalska). The “Pod Gołębiami” house (nr 6) is decorated with a portal with a sculpture of pigeons (designed by Halina Kosmólska in 1953, and made by Janina Karwowska). The portal commemorates a woman who after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 lived in the ruins of the house and took care of pigeons. At nr 40, a Neo-Renaissance gallery, designed in 1922 by Stefan Szyller, were reconstructed. Cloistered courtyards were also reconstructed at nr 44-46 (designed by W. Podlewski); today the house accommodates the Gessler Restaurant.
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The Old Town
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