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Presidential Palace in Warsaw

Krakowskie Przedmieście 48/50, 00-071 Warszawa

Neoclassical palace where a wooden memorial cross once stood, at the heart of a national mourning-turned-political standoff.

This guide to the Presidential Palace in Warsaw opens on a midnight in September 2010, when workers quietly carried away a wooden cross that scouts had planted at the gate five days after President Lech Kaczynski's plane went down near Smolensk. It follows the grief that gathered along Krakowskie Przedmieście, the standoff between the cross's defenders and their opponents that faced off for months at this gate, and the fight over where the cross belonged.

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