New Market Area
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New Market Square - the center of the New Town, founded in 1264 in Torun. The area is a square about the size of 95 x 95 meters, there are many historic buildings.

The town hall, built in the Gothic style in the early fourteenth century, was located the courtroom and the court. On the ground floor is commercial space shops and artisan shops. The basement was used as a prison and the city of beer. After the unification of the Old Town, New Town, Town Hall was converted into a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Due to the poor technical condition of it was demolished in 1818, and on its foundations was built a Neo-Romanesque church, opened in 1824.

Around New Market House located wealthy citizens of Torun, which, however, gave way to more refined buildings of the old market. Because of the large number of ills that plague the city, and as a result of the Napoleonic wars and Swedish, have survived only a few medieval buildings. Most of the houses were built in the Gothic style in the second half of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Apartment buildings appeared in the new market in the nineteenth century.

Among the most famous monuments of the New Market - historic pharmacy "Golden Lion", operating since 1624. The current building was built by the pharmacy in 1830 in the classical style by combining two adjacent buildings: the Gothic house in 1400 and 1819 half-timbered buildings. Above the entrance to the pharmacy is gilded wooden statue of a lion, which is the emblem of the pharmacy since its inception.

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