Area Mickiewicz - one of the central squares of the city.
According to a study J. Witwicki in the current area of Mickiewicz during the Commonwealth were a number of fortification: tower Reznikov, coopers and tanners, bastions Farsky and Snake (aka Water), the length of high walls and earthworks. These fortifications were demolished in the late XVIII century the Austrian authorities, but from the beginning of XIX century the area began to be built. This territory drained through the river flowed here Poltva moved two bridges in 1840. Thus was formed the area of the Archduke Ferdinand, named in honor of Ferdinand d'Este, governor of the Austrian province of Galicia and Lodomery in 1832-1846, respectively. The name of Ferdinand-Platz (Square Ferdinand) territory received from June 29, 1843.