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New Orangery - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
The building of the New Orangery (erected in 1860-1861) was designed by Adam Adolf Loewe and Józef Orłowski to shelter in cold weather the orange trees and exotic plants that were displayed in the garden in summer. Among the plants were the camphor tree, magnolias, myrtles, pomegranates and cypresses. The plants blissfully enjoyed the light and warmth of the sun through the southern glass...
Warszawa
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Masovian
Leto Gallery
gallery
Founded in 2007, LETO Gallery is a major player on the Polish contemporary art scene. Through the unconventional perspective and fearless choices of its founder, Marta Kołakowska, the gallery has established itself as a site of cooperation, education and promotion for the millennial generation of artists, namely, those who came of age after the fall of communism in 1989. The work shown by the...
Warszawa
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Masovian
The Romantic Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
The Romantic Garden adjoining the Belvedere Palace, and composed of many interesting elements and a rich assortment of plants, is an excellent example of nineteenth-century European garden design. The Belvedere Palace, located at the top of the escarpment, dominates this part of the garden which was established in a manner widely acclaimed throughout Europe in the nineteenth century and which...
Warszawa
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Masovian
The Royal Garden - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
This is the oldest of the gardens. It was created in the seventeenth century on the marshlands of the former Hunting Grounds which had once belonged to the Grand Marshal of the Crown, Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. Channels were dug through the ground to drain the marshes. A small Italianate garden was laid out on a regular, star-shaped plan close to the Bathhouse pavilion which was built...
Warszawa
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Masovian
Baszta Szewska - The Historical and Ethnographic Museum in Chojnice
Museum
A 3-storey building situated within the medieval city walls, between the Człuchowska Gate and the Shoemaker's House. Rebuilt by the museum in 1983-84 in a shape that preserves the original character and partly the original historic substance. At present, it houses a museum library with a valuable Pomeranian Studies book collection and a reading room.
Chojnice
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Pomeranian
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county chojnicki
Small Gallery
gallery
In its premises the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art runs different forms of activities related to propagation of modern art. It organizes about 36 exhibitions a year. Best artists from Poland and abroad are invited to participate. Other forms of activities, which are very popular, are lectures about the latest modern art and practical workshops or lessons. Apart from exhibitions...
Słupsk
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Pomeranian
Witches’ Tower - Small Gallery
gallery
The Witches’ Tower was built from 1411 to 1415. In the 17 th century the defense tower was converted into a prison for women suspected of sorcery. According to the available sources 18 women were executed here. The first trial of witchcraft took place in 1651 and its victims were Scholastyka and Runga – ladies-in-waiting to Duchess Anna de Croy. The last one was a servant from Rowy –...
Słupsk
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Pomeranian
The Egyptian Temple - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
It was built around the year 1825 in the southern part of the garden, on a rampart, which is the only preserved element of the so-called Lubomirski Ramparts. They were created in 1770 around Warsaw to serve as protection from a plague epidemic. The Egyptian Temple was used as a fig pavilion - a place where figs matured. The pavilion was constructed during the expansion of the Royal Łazienki...
Warszawa
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Masovian
The New Guardhouse - The Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
parks and gardens
In the place of the contemporary New Guardhouse, an entertainment pavilion known as Trou-Madame was built in the years 1779-1780. Its name came from a popular 18th century game, which consisted in rolling balls through special gates. It was a low, single-storey Chinese-style building adorned with landscape polychromes and painted imitations of a garden arbour. In 1782, the New Guardhouse...
Warszawa
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Masovian
The Centre for Creative Activities - Small Gallery
gallery
The Centre for Creative Activities has appeared in result of the renovation of a historic granary, the modest part of which had been occupied by the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art until recently. It will be the first centre of the kind in Poland and one of the few existing in Europe and all over the world so far. Similar institutions exist in such places as Kecskemet, Hungary, Vallauris,...
Ustka
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Pomeranian
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county słupski
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