Lazienki Park is located near the bank of the Wisla River in the center of Warsaw. Nowadays it is the largest park in the city and occupies an area of 76 hectares. The word "Lazenki" in Polish means "Baths". This place has been the residence and favorite vacation location of Polish kings and Russian tsars for several centuries.
Now Lazienki Park is located in the center of Warsaw, and in the Middle Ages here, on the banks of the Wisla, there was a fortified town of Yazdow. The distance from Lazienki Park to the Royal Palace and the Old Town of Warsaw is 4.5 kilometers. The first wooden palace on a rock in Yazdov was built in the middle of the 16th century by Queen Anna Jagiellonka of Poland, daughter of Sigismund I the Old. Next to the palace, she created a large menagerie.
The real heyday of the Lazenki Park and Palace began in 1764, when King Stanislav-August Poniatowski came to power. He created a luxurious Lazenki Park here, and also built a palace that became his country residence.
On an artificial island in the middle of a pond, he built a palace in the classical style. Now it is called the Lazenki Palace. It is small in size, but looks very elegant on the island, in the middle of the water. Stanislav Poniatowski placed the most valuable paintings of European artists from his collection in the palace. This collection of Poniatowski can be seen in the Lazenki Palace today.
After visiting the palace, be sure to take a walk along the alleys of Lazenki Park. In 1817, the Russian Emperor Alexander I bought the Lazenki Park and Palace. The Russian tsars, coming to Warsaw, always stayed in Lazenki. Over time, many houses appeared here, which in fact are also small palaces: the White House, the Myslevitsky Palace, the Belvedere Palace, the Old Greenhouse, the New Greenhouse, the Hermitage.
The Amphitheater is of great interest. Rows of seats of the auditorium in the open air go down the slope of the shore to the water, and the stage is located on an island and is separated from the auditorium by a small water channel.
