Plac Defilad w Warszawie (Parade Square) is a square in downtown Warsaw

Warszawa-Sródmiescie

Śródmieście is the central borough of the city of Warsaw. The best known neighborhoods in the borough are the Old Town and New Town ....

. Located between ulica Świętokrzyska (Holy Cross Street) in the north, Aleje Jerozolimskie

Aleje Jerozolimskie

Aleje Jerozolimskie is one of the principal streets of the city of Warsaw in Poland. It runs through the City Centre along the East-West axis, linking the western borough of Wola with the bridge on the Vistula River and the borough of Praga on the other side of the river.The name of the street...

(Jerusalem Avenues) in the south, ulica Marszałkowska (Marshal's Street) in the east and the monumental Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw from the west, it is one of Warsaw's central squares.

It is one of the youngest squares in Warsaw, built in the 1950s together with the Palace of Culture and Science. It was used extensively by the government of People's Republic of Poland

People's Republic of Poland

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 for various propaganda

Propaganda

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 parade

Parade

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s. It has lost its importance after the fall of communism, becoming ironically the site of a giant marketplace

Marketplace

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. Criticized for unplanned ugliness and chaos of such primitive marketplace in the center of a modern capital city

Capital City

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, several plans have been made to modernize it and/or replace with something else (which have caused protests from local merchants). The latest plans are related to a construction of a museum of modern art in its place(2015) and general genetrification of a square with different skyscrapers and other facilites. It's the fourth largest city square in the world and the largest in the European Union

European Union

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