Nowy Swiat

This street is very popular where you can sit in a cafe summer garden, have a good meal, and go shopping. In 1640, the street was given its present name Nowy Swiat meaning New World, but was originally a former road leading from Old Warsawto the town of Jazdow. Nobility and burghers made up the majority of the residents on the street, although only house No. 1 has stayed with an unchanged form. Elegant metropolitan buildings began to form on the street of Nowy Swiat, lined with large shop windows. At the end of the 19th century, the street had hundreds of stores.

World War II brutally severed the streets devlopment, leaving Nowy Swiat completely ruined. The reconstruction from 1946 to 1950 restored the buildings to how they look today, but after a time, elegant boutiques started to move out of Nowy Swiat to newly built shopping centers.

In the summer from May to October, the streets are closed on weekends, where civilians can walk around freely going from shop to shop and sitting down in cafes. In the winter, the street is illuminated.

For more information of the historicals of Noqy Swiat, go to this website:
http://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/15260/article