Garden Wilanow Wilanow Garden (also known as Park Wilanowski) is the garden forming part of the palace and park in Warsaw's Wilanow, next to the suburban residence of the king was originally Jan III Sobieski Covering 45 hectares (along with Lake and Canal Wilanów Sobieski). It is part of the area underlying the palace museum in Wilanow, covering 89 hectares in total. Great place for a walk with family or friends ;-)
Wilanów Park is an integral part of the palace and garden in Wilanow. It is a favorite place for walks of Warsaw residents seeking rest and respite from urban life. Park also attracts thousands of tourists annually from around the world.
The choice of the royal residence decided by its natural ecosystems. Terraced layout of the terrain and the presence of bodies of water equivalent to the requirements of assumptions shaping the Baroque garden, allow for the prospects of getting interesting viewing and linking the garden with the surrounding landscape. Since the beginning of wielding Wilanow by King John III gardens of royal residences were given special care by their owner, who personally oversaw the plants, planted trees, and then reveled in their beauty, spending long hours in the garden. Over the centuries, royal gardens have undergone transformations, as subsequent owners of Wilanow adds to their area and made their changes in accordance with their prevailing tastes and fashions. We owe the present appearance of the park restoration project carried out by Professor Gerard Ciolek in the 50s Twentieth century
important compositional element in the park is water. Natural lakes: Lake and Stream Wilanowskie Służewiecki artificial pond and the reign of the park creates a unique microclimate and romantic. Standing timber park are mainly native species, dominated by so linden (Tilia cordata), maple (Acer platanoides), hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), elm (Ulmus laevis), white poplar (Populus alba), black poplar (Populus nigra), oaks (Quercus robur), red oak (Quercus rubra). The exotic species we can find the ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), surmię (Catalpa bignonioides) grujecznik (Cercidiphyllum japonicum), Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), plane tree (Platanus acerifolia), honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos). Many of the trees is very valuable specimens, and 28 of them were considered natural monuments.
to enter the park gate from the courtyard of the palace, converted into the nineteenth century by Stanislaw Kostka Potocki of bipartite to a large square with an oval lawn. In the spring in the courtyard, we can admire the blooming magnolias (Magnolia x soulangiana), one of the oldest trees of this species in the country. Separates the courtyard from the park pergola with a gate adorned with Roman Horace, the Latin poem extolling rural solitude, away from the cares of life: "Quam Iucunda Duceram Sollicitae Oblivia Vitae" (now in the preservation of the inscription). Pergola was built on the extension of the north wing of the palace in place of former stables and granaries, designed by architect Francesco Maria Lanci. It is covered with ivy vines Japanese (Vitis coignetiae) and kokornaku (Aristolochia durior).
On the axis of the gate, between the building Figarni and the Orangery, Lanci wkomponował bramę.Po romantic brick entrance to the park guided by the left will reach the lovely place called Grove Akademos. At the entrance to the grove stand statues of poets, Jan Kochanowski and Francis Karpinski. In the north wing of the palace there are rococo floral parterres, filled with seasonal plants rabatowymi, forming a colorful carpet.
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