Arkady Kubickiego

This guide to Arkady Kubickiego in Warsaw follows the red-brick arcaded gallery designed around 1819 by Jakub Kubicki, protege and personal architect to Poland's last king, built as a working trade street along the old Vistula riverbed. It traces how the gallery survived the 1944 destruction of the Royal Castle above it, only to be used afterward as a military depot and left to crumble from neglect for decades. Kubicki himself trained in Italy before becoming Poland's leading classicist architect.