Lazienki+Park

The Łazienki Królewski Museum consists of a palace and a park. The Łazienki is 76 hectares, and is in the center of the city. Buildings in the park are The Palace on the Water, Roman Theater, White House, Myślewicki Palace, the Old Orangery, the New Orangery, the Temple of Diana, the Egyptian Temple and the Water Tower. This is Warsaw's equivilant to Grand Central Park. The Łazienki are said to be one of Europe's most beautiful areas. The Palace on the Water was one of the houses of the last Polish King, Stanisław August Poniatowski. He got part of a smaller bath to be included in his Palace. The Myślewicki Palace is a palace that was built by a small nearby village. It was then expanded due to the orders of Stanisław Poniatowski. The Myślewicki Palace is one of the few surviving pieces of classical style architecture in Poland. The White House was designed by Dominik Merlini. It was once again, a command of Stanisław Poniatowski. Many details of Chinese architecture were included unto this building. The White House is now more of a museum and has the King's real bed in it. The Old and New Orangeries are both now houses for exotic plants. The Lazienki Park took a little over twenty years to build and design in the mid to late 1700's. This park has a couple of nicknames including "Baths Park" or "Royal Bath Park". In this eighty hectare (about 956,800 square yards) park, there are many different monuments and pavilions designed by a couple different people. But the main designer behind this all is a guy named Tylman Van Gamerski. Tylman was a Polish architect and engineer who lived from 1632 to the year 1706. He was very smart and he used the forest and greenery of the area to build the park and all the places inside making it seem more natural-based. Very few major events happened here at the park. The park was built for Poland's new and recent king in the 1700's named King Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski. Because it was built for him, he visited it a couple times during the process of building and once it was done being constructed. Since the park area has been here for quite a while, it has faced a lot in its past. Some parts of the park suffered in #|fire damages due to the Warsaw Uprising and all of the conflicts between Germany and Poland. Other than visits from the king and fire damages the park has been pretty calm and peaceful. Mentioned before, the park contains a lot of different pieces and parts. The Lazienki park is a museum, a place to walk around and socialize, and a place of culture for the people of Warsaw, Poland. For the past fifty years there has been free piano concerts that people can attend on the weekends. The park has often been referred as the home for a music lover. There are three famous monuments in the park including the Chopin, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and lastly the Jan lll Sobieski monuments. Also there are a bunch of different pavilions that lie within the park.