Banking area - one of the main squares in Warsaw. Located in the city center near the Saxon Garden.

Banking area was created in 1825 during the period of the Kingdom of Poland to become one of the most fashionable areas of the capital. There is the famous public institutions, such as the Ministry of State Revenues, Bank of Poland, Warsaw Stock Exchange. Initially the area was triangular in shape.

In 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising of buildings on the square were destroyed, the area ceased to exist. After the war it was decided to reconstruct only the western part of the historical area and rebuild it in the shape of a rectangle.

During the period of the Polish People's Republic Bank area it was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square. In 1951, a monument to Dzerzhinsky was built in the southern part of the area. The monument was demolished after the fall of communism in Poland.

Today in the banking area of ​​the famous blue skyscraper, built on the site of the former synagogue, which was destroyed by the Germans during World War II. Also on the square is the City Hall. And on the site of the monument to Dzerzhinsky in 2001, it was erected a monument to Juliusz Slowacki.