Palace On The Isle In Warsaw’s Royal Baths Park, Editorial Photo

The origins of the Palace date back to the 17th century. In the years 1683 – 1689, on the order of the Grand Marshall of the Crown, Stanislaw Herakliusz Lubomirski, the architect Tylman van Gameren constructed a garden pavilion – a Bathhouse (Polish: Lazienki). In 1764 the Bathhouse was bought by the last King of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski. Stanislaw August, with the help of architects: Dominic Merlini and Jan Christian Kamsetzer, remodeled the Bathhouse into the Palace, a summer residence of a villa - museum type. The building is dominated by an attic supported by columns, and ornamented with statues of mythological figures. The palace stands on an artificial island in Lazienki Lake, and is connected to the rest of the park by two arcaded bridges. The Palace on the Isle was burned after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising by Germans. Fortunately, the German plans to blow up the Palace were never carried out. It was rebuilt after World War II.