Warsaw New Town

This guide to Warsaw's New Town centers on a 1944 night when German soldiers wired a Freta Street townhouse with explosives, targeting it for a plaque marking the birthplace of Maria Skłodowska, the future Marie Curie. It follows the district through the Warsaw Uprising and into the 1950s rebuilding effort that followed, and stops at the well nearby topped with a girl and a unicorn, the New Town's own quiet emblem beside the Old Town's mermaid.