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Telegraph Blogs - Warsaw’s new Old Town

When is an Old City not an old city? The thought struck me while wandering around Warsaw last week.

Its main square is a delight to behold, like so many other in Eastern/Central Europe. The colourful narrow fronted houses, looking down on the cobblestoned market square, are a fabulous relic of centuries past. Or are they?

Like much of the rest of Warsaw, the Old Town was utterly destroyed in WWII. Rebuilding used as many of the old bricks and carvings as possible, but often that simply wasn’t possible.

So the question remains: if the Old City is totally re-built with new bricks, is it still old? If so, what makes it old? The location? The memory and fondness of people for the destroyed real thing?

New bricks:

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