Before WWII Warsaw was called "Paris of the North". During the war, especially during the Uprising 1944, the city was totally destroyed. Despite the reconstruction Old Warsaw has gone forever...
Below are pictures from 1890.

King Sigismund's monument

Grand theatre

Town hall.

St. Anna's Church

The Iron bridge

The Iron bridge

Copernicus Monument

Old part of town

Nowy Zjazd Street

St. Alexander's Church

Krasinski Place

The Saxe Garden

The Late Royal Castle