The Warsaw we know today looks like, but is not, the one that Bernardo Bellotto portrayed almost three centuries ago. That city which the vedute painter immortalized is heaped up on the outskirts, where the debris to which the Polish capital’s historic center was reduced by the havoc of World War II accumulated. While houses, palaces, and churches were faithfully reconstructed, the remains of the original buildings formed an enormous mound which in the course of time took on green sprouts, and in the 1990s the area was reclaimed as a site of memory. A monument was built on top but the surroundings were still perceived as unsafe and inaccessible, diminishing the symbolic power of the place. Thus this recent intervention to improve the routes across the grounds, with paths adapted to the rugged topography by means of footbridges and passes dug into the slopes. Continuing the reappropriation of nature, the pavements and retaining elements respect rainwater run-offs and the vegetal sublayer, and rubble from the artificial hill was used as a physical reminder of its history, and that of the whole city...[+]