Royal Baths Park & Tobias Traditional Geocache
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Royal Baths Park & Tobias
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the cache is placed in a park, behind the Stage of Roman Theatre. you find there a nice, mysterious place hidden in a park, with its shadows and magic atmosphere. you can see the path going up the rock stairs, and so you will see the stones on both sides of the stairs. Having lake with the fountains behind you and going upstairs you have the cache just on the level of your ankles, on the right side. watch out for the people and guards, especially while sunny weekends;)
The Royal Baths Park (Polish: Park Lazienkowski, or Lazienki 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 (Sródmiescie), 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, Lazienki Park adjoins Ujazdów Castle.
Lazienki Park was established in the 17th century by Tylman van Gameren, in the baroque style, for Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski. It took the name Lazienki ("Baths") from a bathing pavilion that was located there.
In 1764 the gardens were acquired by Stanislaw August Poniatowski after his election as King of Poland.
The now classicist-style gardens became Stanislaw 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 Lazienki Lake and Lazienki River. Stanislaw 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.
The Palace on the Water (Polish: Palac na Wodzie), also called the Lazienki Palace (Palac Lazienkowski) and the Palace on the Island (Palac na Wyspie), was built in the 17th century by Tylman van Gameren for Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski. Between 1772 and 1793 it was remodeled by Domenico Merlini for King Stanislaw August Poniatowski, who made it his residence.
The original bathhouse was built in a Chinese style. The building, now a beautiful medley of architectural styles, was then graced with reliefs and painted Dutch tiles.
The palace's furniture and paintings belong to the Classicist style. The building is dominated by an attika supported by columns, and featuring statues of mythological figures.
The palace stands on an artificial island on Lazienki Lake, and is connected to the rest of the park by two arcaded bridges. The long Lazienki Lake is divided by the palace into two parts, a smaller northern lake and a larger southern one.
The palace's ground floor includes a "Bacchus room," royal baths, a ballroom, a portrait gallery, a Solomon Room, a rotunda with figures of Polish kings, a lower picture gallery which contains minor works by Rubens and Rembrandt, and a chapel. Also on the ground floor is a dining room in which the famous "Thursday dinners" took place, to which Stanislaw August Poniatowski invited leading artists, writers and politicians.
The first floor contains the royal apartments, an upper picture gallery, a balcony room, the king's study, the royal bedchambers, a cloakroom, and an officer's room. The Palace on the Water was burned after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising by the Germans, who had prepared to blow it up but never got around to doing so. It was rebuilt after World War II.
Little White House
The Little White House (Bialy Domek) was built by Domenico Merlini in 1774-76 as another of Stanislaw August Poniatowski's summer residences—not as a palace, but as a garden villa, with an orangerie, painting gallery, and living quarters. It served the King as a secret love nest.
The lodge has seven rooms, beautifully appointed with original furniture and decor, including Chinese wallpaper, which was popular at the time, and delicate grotesques painted by Jan Bogumil Plersch and Jan Scislo
Named for the village of Myslewice, the little palace (in Polish, called Palac Myslewicki) was built by King Stanislaw August Poniatowski in 1775–79 to an early-classicist design by Domenico Merlini.
The palace's main, three-story body features a central entry niche and is flanked by quarter-circle wings. The facade is adorned by an enormous shell with sculptures of Zephyr and Flora by Giacomo Monaldi. The gently recurved rooflines reflect then-popular Chinese designs.
Initially the palace housed royal courtiers; later it was taken over by Prince Józef Poniatowski, whose initials appear in a cartouche over the entrance.
The palace survived World War II.
On September 15, 1958, the first talks were held here between the ambassadors of the Chinese People's Republic and the United States of America—the first attempt to establish contact between the two countries.
Temple of Diana
In 1822, Jakub Kubicki erected a classicist temple to the goddess Diana. Also called the "Temple of the Sybil," it stands in the northwest part of the southern Lazienki lake. The wooden building is massive and decorated inside with murals of flower and fruit motifs.
An Egyptian temple was also built in 1822 by Jakub Kubicki, at the southwest shore of the southern Lazienki Lake. It was placed next to the fortress built by Stanislaw Lubomirski, which protected Warsaw south of that point. In 1771 a bridge was built to it. During the Warsaw Uprising, only the northern part of the temple survived; the southern part has never been rebuilt.
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wonderful place for walks:)
you are not allowed to take with you to the park dogs, roolerscates and bicycles.
being there, you can not skip the statue of Frideric Chopin. in the summer book at least one weekend to listen to real concerts of greatest artists near the statue.
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