Three years after a formal declaration of intent was signed, plans to rebuild Saski Palace have received a considerable boost after it was revealed that it is one of the cornerstone pledges of the government's 'New Deal.'
The cost of the project is immense, around PLN 1 billion ($271M). Still, to many, the palace has an overriding relevance to Polish history and culture, not to mention its symbolic importance to not just Warsaw but the country as a whole.
"When the 1944 Warsaw Uprising was brutally suppressed, the palace's destruction was guaranteed as the occupying Germans sought to obliterate Warsaw – and in particular references to its national heritage – before their eventual withdrawal" - thefirstnews.pl.
