Rose Avenue (Róż Avenue)

Aleja Róż ,Kraków http://www.krakow.pl/english/instcbi/36961,inst,12490,1281,instcbi.html

About

In the plans, the avenue is a promenade leading from the transport hub of the district - Centralny Square - to the main administrative centre of the city: Town Hall Square. Both the square and the town hall that was to be erected within it never got off the drawing board. Yet in the 1970s, the avenue acquired a special character: it became the arena of Communist festivities as a seven-ton monument to Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov known as Lenin, designed by Marian Konieczny, was placed here. The monument was the object of indiscriminate ridicule, abuse, and attacks. A bomb was planted underneath it in 1979 - even though it was intended to demolish this symbol of "brotherly Polish-Soviet friendship", it managed only to tear away the heel of the Leader of the Soviet Revolution. The removal of the monument on 10th December 1989 was of symbolic importance for Nowa Huta and Kraków. Today, it can be seen in the "city of peculiarities" - the High Chaparral Museum in Hillerstorp near Stockholm (Sweden).