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By: Jacob Westerhoff __Royal Castle __  In 1589 the Royal Castle of Warsaw was built for King Sugmund 3rd Vasa. The castle was designed by the Italian architects Giovanni Trevano, Giacomo Rodondo, Paolo del Corte, and Mateo Castelli. They set it along the bank of the Vistula River. The Italians made it to put fear into the Polish eyes and to say that the Italians were in control of them, but the Polish welcomed the castle and eventually made it into their King's Castle.

 The castle has been knocked down, bombed, or burned four times and re-built again each time. It has been burned twice, once in WWI by the Germans just so they could terrorize the Polish. The Polish rebuilt it to show that they are still alive, but the Germans don’t like being humiliated, so they bombed it again in WWII. This time the Germans forbade the reconstruction of the castle. Decades after the war, in 1971, the Polish finally did rebuild the castle as a national monument to Poland's rich history.

 Some interesting facts about the royal castle was that the castle appears as a grand and well-kept building from the outside, a lot of technical and architectural improvements as well as a new air conditioning system, electrical installation and roof tiles are necessary. A ten year plan to renovate required an investment of 200 million Zloty, What’s good about this is that before it was reconstructed the last time, it didn’t have any of these accessories. The interior consists of many different rooms, all painstakingly restored with as much original exhibits as possible after the destruction during the Second World War.The Jagiellonian Rooms: these rooms, which belonged to the residence of Augustus III, are now host to a number of portraits of the Jagiello family, a royal dynasty originating in Lithuania that reigned in some Central European countries between the 14th and 16th century.

 But this is what I love about Poland and this castle. The castle is symbol practically saying whatever you throw at us, be bounce right back up even better before. So that’s why I think Warsaw deserves the name of the “Phoenix City”.