Chinese dragon, Royal Baths Park, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
The Royal Baths Park (Polish: Park Łazienkowski, or Łazienki Królewskie) is the largest park in Warsaw, 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 with Wilanów, to the south. Just to the north, on the other side of Agrykola Street, Łazienki Park adjoins Ujazdów Castle. Łazienki Park was established 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 now classicist-style gardens became Stanisław August's life's work. 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 the 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. (source: Wikipedia)
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Location: Royal Baths Park, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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