The Łazienki Palace (Palace on the Water, Palace on the Isle), Royal Baths Park, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Łazienki Palace (Polish: Pałac Łazienkowski), also called the Palace on the Water (Polish: Pałac na Wodzie) and the Palace on the Isle (Polish: Pałac na Wyspie), is a Neoclassical palace in Warsaw's Łazienki Park. After World War II, until the 1960s, the palace served as a barracks. Originally a bathhouse for powerful aristocrat Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski, built on an islet in the middle of a lake by Tylman van Gameren. It was completely remodelled by Domenico Merlini between 1764 and 1795 to fulfil Stanisław August Poniatowski's need for a private residence where he could relax. Stanisław August was a great patron of the arts, and this is reflected in the sumptuous interiors of the main palace. A good deal of the monarch's original collection has survived. During World War II, Wehrmacht sappers bored tens of thousands of holes in the Palace in the stripped walls that they intended to fill with dynamite, but they only succeeded in setting the Palace alight and causing limited damage to the first floor. The palace is built on an artificial island that divides the lake into two parts, a smaller northern lake and a bigger southern lake; it is connected by two Ionic colonnaded bridges to the rest of the park. The façades are unified by an entablature carried by a giant Corinthian order of pilasters that links its two floors and is crowned by a balustrade that bears statues of mythological figures. The north façade is relieved by a central pedimented portico. On the south front a deep central recess lies behind a screen of the Corinthian order carried across its front. (source: Wikipedia)
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Location: Royal Baths Park, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Photo credit: © Olga Gajewska / Alamy / Afripics
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