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The new fountain is not surrounded by a wall as before, but level with the slab surface and illuminated. The number of parking spaces was decreased. Parking lots were removed from the center of the square, and instead parking bays were built at the northern and southern frontages. Outdoor dining appeared on the Market Square. The circular traffic around the square remained unchanged.
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In 2011–2012, the Market Square was rebuilt. The pavement was covered with granite slabs, 80 trees and shrubs were removed. The Town Hall building and the chapel of St. John
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intended to destroy the monument. The Nowy Targ inhabitants, who were ordered to do it, only destroyed the pedestal and buried the statue in the area of the municipal power plant. After 10 years, in 1950 the statue was unearthed. Since
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the buildings in the Market Square were predominantly made of brick. There are historic tenement houses from that period, most of them located on the northern side of the Market Square. A typical one is a two-story tenement house with a three-axis façade.
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The chapel was built after the great fire of Nowy Targ in 1784. The chapel is marked on the cadastral plan, which was made after the city was rebuilt in 1846. On the plan, the chapel is located in the western part of the Market Square and surrounded by four trees.
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was put in the chapel in 1904 on the initiative of councilor Ignacy Moczydłowski. Its general composition scheme is similar to the one of the previous, wooden sculpture. It depicts a legend from the saint's life: St. John
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The town hall stands on the site of an earlier building with the same function. The description of the previous town hall can be found in documents from 1767. The town hall was then a recently built wooden building. It was covered with a
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