my warsaw - royal baths park

The Palace and park

The Baths Park, or Royal Baths (Polish: Park Łazienkowski, or Łazienki Królewskie) is the largest park in Warsow, Poland, occupying 76 hectares of the city center. The park-and-palace complex lies in Warsaw's Downtown (Śródmieście), on Ujazdów Avenue (Aleje Ujazdowskie) on the „Royal Route" linking the Royal Castle withWilanów, to the south. North of the Baths Park (Park Łazienkowski), on the other side of Agrykola Street, stands Ujazdów Castle.Łazienki Park was designed in the 17th century by Tylman van Gameren, in the baroque style, for Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. It took the name Łazienki ("Baths") from a bathing pavilion that was located there.In 1764 the gardens were acquired by Stanisław August Poniatowski after his election as King of Poland.The development of the classicist-style gardens became a major project for Stanisław August during his reign. The park-and-palace complex was designed by Domenico Merlini, Johann Christian Kammsetzer and landscape gardener Jan Christian Schuch. Its principal buildings cluster around or near the Łazienki Lake and Łazienki River. Stanisław August's palace situated on the lake is called the „Palace on Water."Most of the park's buildings burned during and after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, amid fighting between German and Polish forces. The structures nevertheless were relatively well-preserved, compared to the Old Town (the Germans had drilled holes in the palace walls for placement of explosives but had not gotten around to detonating them).Reconstruction of the park and palaces was completed within a few years after World War II.

Palace on Water

Vestibule

Classical ballroom in the Palace on the

Island the Royal Baths in Warsaw, 1788-93,

by design John Christian Kamsetzer.

Solomon Hall

Theater on Island in the Royal Baths Park

Amphiteater seats in Roman

Little White House in Baths Park

Little White House

Royal Baths - Myślewicki Palace

New Orangery; now Belvedere Restaurant

New Orangery

Old Orangery, currently art exhibitions

Garden, in the back we can see of Old Orangery

The historic water tank (water tower)

A second water tower

The Old Guardhouse (seat of the royal guard, currently in place exhibitions)

Baths Park - favorite destination for lovers

Monument to King John III Sobieski on the Agricola street along the Park

Monument to Henryk Sienkiewicz

Monument to Frederic Chopin

Peacocks feel very well in the Baths Park

Ujazdów Castle (Polish: Zamek Ujazdowski) is a castle between Ujazdów Park and the Royal Baths Park

View from the Royal Baths to Belvedere Palace

Muzyka - Tomaso Albinoni - Koncert nr 11 AdagioIllustrations from online resources had chosen - Anna