Founded shortly after the Old Town, the New Town had its own independent administration. Although not as wealthy as its sister town, it offers a succession of churches and baroque palaces which are well worth a detour. At the centre of the Polish insurrection in 1944, it was also the site of the only too notorious Jewish ghetto, the memory of which is now commemorated in a museum. It also contains more recent buildings, such as the Bank of Poland or the gigantic Palace of Culture and Science.