Z ul. Długa, we turn left and take ul. Andersa, we come to Bankowy Square. At the intersection with al. Solidarności, there is a former well called "Fat Kaśka" built in 1783 r. wg proj. Szymon Bogumił Zug. It has the shape of a small rotunda covered with a stepped roof topped with an obelisk with a ball. On the left side, on a small square, the Radziwiłł Palace rises between two roadways – currently the seat of the Independence Museum. Bank Square was built in 1825 r. in the place of the courtyard of the Ogiński palace, in connection with the construction after its west. page 3 palaces to be used as residences: Revenue and Treasury Government Commission, Of the Minister of the Treasury and Bank of Poland. W 2 half. XIX w. the square was rebuilt in the shape of a triangle. W 1951 r. after the reconstruction of the destroyed complex of palaces, the square was given the form of an elongated rectangle. From 1951 r. do 1989 r. was called square F.. Dzerzhinsky, and in its central point there was a monument to the patron made according to the design. Zbigniew Dunajewski. Currently, in the complex of buildings on the west side. the square houses the Office of the Capital City of. Of Warsaw and the Voivodship Office. In the former building of the Bank of Poland (at the exit of ul. Elektoralna) the Museum of the Collection of them has its seat. John Paul II (collection of European painting). From the east. the square's dominant touch is having 100 m high, the Blue Tower was built in 1975-92 in place of existing here to 1943 r. Great Synagogue erected in 1877 r. wg proj. Leandra Marconiego. In front of the skyscraper there is a monument to Stefan Starzyński – the famous president of Warsaw, unveiled in 1993 r. – by Andrzej Renes.

From Plac Bankowy, turn left into ul. senatorial. On the right, at no. 37 there is the palace complex of the Zamojski family (called the Blue Palace). Palace in the early. 18th century. it was owned by the bishop of Warmia – Teodor Potocki. From 1726 r. property of King Augustus II of Saxony, who purchased it for his natural daughter Anna Orzelska. In the early. 18th century. belonged to the Czartoryski family, and in years 1798-1944 was in the possession of the Zamoyski family. Ok. 1815 r. was rebuilt according to the requirements of classicism and design. Frederic Albert Lessel. The frontage of the palace and balustrades of balconies are decorated with the coats of arms of the Zamoyski family – Intestines. Opposite the entrance to the palace courtyard there is a Rococo figure of St.. John of Nepomuk, funded by 1731 r. by the Grand Marshal of the Crown Józef Wandalin Mniszch. Going further along ul. Senatorska at no. 38/40 at some distance from the street, on the left side, behind a rectangular square limited by modern buildings, we see the classicist Mniszech Palace, also known as the Merchant's Residence. It was built in 1714 r. wg proj. B. K. Munnich for Józef Wandalin Mniszch and his wife Konstancja née Tarłów. It was rebuilt in 1760 i 1829. At the end of the 18th century. the palace belonged to the Potocki family: first John (1765-1815) – historian, novelist, the founder of the Warsaw press, active during the period of the Great Sejm and a traveler (North Africa, Asia Minor, Mongolia), and then Stefan Szczęsny (1752-1805) – the great master of Polish Freemasonry, opponent of the reform program, the famous leader of the Targowica Confederation. During the Prussian partition, at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the palace was the seat of the "Harmonia" Music Society run by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, who was then living in Warsaw and acting as a Prussian official (1776-1822) – German writer, composer and illustrator, one of the leading representatives of European Romanticism (m.in.: composer of the opera "Undine" and author of the short story "The Story of the Nutcracker", musically illustrated by Piotr Tchaikovsky). At that time, concerts and musical performances were organized here.