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The Palace of the Commonwealth (Krasiński Palace) - National Library
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The Palace of the Commonwealth and the adjacent Krasiński Garden form a palace-cum-garden complex (French: entre cour et jardin) which was typical of the Baroque style. Built in the years 1688–1699, according to Tylman van Gameren’s design, was unanimously considered by the contemporaries as one of the most beautiful magnate palaces in Warsaw. The construction of the Krasiński Palace was a...
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The White Pavilion - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
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The small villa-type building is a unique monument of 18th-century residential architecture in Poland. It was the first building on the premises of Royal Łazienki which was erected from scratch on the order of king Stanisław August. It was built around 1774 by the Royal Promenade, most likely to the design of Domenico Merlini. In the years 1775-1777 it was furnished and gained a painting...
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The Royal Collection of Prints of Stanisław August
The New Guardhouse - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
In the place of the contemporary New Guardhouse, an entertainment pavilion known as Trou-Madame was built in the years 1779-1780. Its name came from a popular 18th century game, which consisted in rolling balls through special gates. It was a low, single-storey Chinese-style building adorned with landscape polychromes and painted imitations of a garden arbour. In 1782, the New Guardhouse...
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The Municipal Zoological Garden in Warsaw
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The Municipal Zoological Garden in Warsaw is a large, green island in the middle of the city, a magical place, full of interesting adventures. You can visit it for knowledge, relax surrounded by beautiful nature and observe wonderful animals. Our Zoo has more than 12,000 animals representing about 500 species, of which nearly 50 are covered by the European Endangered species Programme (EEP)....
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The Royal Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
This is the oldest of the gardens. It was created in the seventeenth century on the marshlands of the former Hunting Grounds which had once belonged to the Grand Marshal of the Crown, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. Channels were dug through the ground to drain the marshes. A small Italianate garden was laid out on a regular, star-shaped plan close to the Bathhouse pavilion which was built...
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The Romantic Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
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The Romantic Garden adjoining the Belvedere Palace, and composed of many interesting elements and a rich assortment of plants, is an excellent example of nineteenth-century European garden design. The Belvedere Palace, located at the top of the escarpment, dominates this part of the garden which was established in a manner widely acclaimed throughout Europe in the nineteenth century and which...
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The Chinese Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
The Chinese Garden, situated in the northern, naturalistic part of the Royal Łazienki, was designed according to existing historical models from Prince Kung’s Mansion in Beijing. Additionally, the garden alludes to the chinoiserie style, which reached its peak popularity in the Royal Łazienki thanks to King Stanisław August. It was on his initiative that in 1780 the former Road to Wilanów...
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The Myślewicki Palace - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
palaces, parks and gardens
This splendid palace with its characteristic semi-circular form was originally conceived as the King’s primary residence. With time, however, it began to take on a more official and representative function. Matters of state were discussed in its elegant interiors, and over the centuries the apartments were used to accommodate tsarist generals, members of the Polish government, as well as...
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Officer Cadets School - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
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Toward the end of the 17th century, a smaller building stood in the place of today’s Great Annexe (Officer Cadets School). It served as a kitchen, where meals were prepared for the residents of the Bathhouse of Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. In the time of Stanisław August, the building was considerably expanded (according to a design by Domenico Merlini) and then named the Great Annexe....
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The Old Guardhouse - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
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The Old Guardhouse is located behind the Palace on the Isle, by the Northern Lake. Guardhouse (corps de garde in French) is a pavilion intended as an outpost for guards. The first building in the Royal Łazienki with this function was shaped like a pyramid covered with vegetation. It existed several years only. The second guardhouse was built near the building used for playing Trou-Madame - a...
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