Fish Square is a former market place where fish caught in the Czechówka river and its backwaters were traded. In the square there used to be the wooden buildings destroyed by fires several times, a city bathhouse and a brothel run by a city executioner who lived nearby. It was not until the 19th century that the square became a representative place, where the palace of Pawęczkowski family, one of the most elegant buildings of then Lublin, was erected. Not everyone knows that the building was originally planned as a church of Trinitarians but the death of the founder of the church, Dominik Lubomirski, stopped a construction. Some people blame for the construction failure the Stone of Misfortune that just lay on this area in that time. In 2003, the square was renovated: it received a new surface, elements of small architecture and lighting. The high, over 50 meter long stairs leading from the square towards Kowalska street, which runs much lower, were also replaced.
