Mirowska Market Hall

This guide to Mirowska Market Hall in Warsaw opens with an unlikely image: Margaret Thatcher buying pickled mushrooms here on a nineteen eighty-eight state visit. It then goes back to the first week of the Warsaw Uprising in August nineteen forty-four, when German troops stormed the hall and rounded up the civilians sheltering inside it. Look closely at the brickwork as you walk through — in places it was deliberately left unrestored.