Åazienki Palace
The Lazienki Palace (Polish: Pałac na Wodzie or Pałac Łazienkowski ), also called the Palace on the Water, or palace on the island, was built in the 17th century by Tylman van Gameren Stanisław Lubomirski Herakliusz, the owner of Ujazdów in Warsaw.
From 1772 to 1795 built Domenico Merlini the castle in the Royal Baths Park for Stanislaus August Poniatowski to who made it his residence. The bathhouse was designed in the interior in the Chinese style which was very popular in the era of classicism. On display are all the reliefs and painted Dutch tiles, furniture and paintings from the period of the Enlightenment. The exterior is dominated by a pillared Attica with allegorical statues. The castle is located on an artificial island on the Lazienki Lake, which is connected by two arcaded bridges to the mainland. The elongated Lazienki Lake is divided from the palace into two parts, the smaller northern lake and the larger southern lake. The ground floor houses the Bacchus Room, the royal baths, the ballroom, the portrait of the Cabinet, the Solomon Hall, the Rotunda with the figures of the Polish kings, the lower picture gallery, the chapel and the dining room, which took place the famous Thursday meeting, to which King Stanisław August Poniatowski weekly important creative artists and Freemasons of his time invited. On the first floor there are the royal apartments, the top picture gallery, the balcony rooms, the royal cabinet, the royal bedchambers, a cloakroom and the officers' room.
The Lazienki Palace was burnt down after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 by the German Wehrmacht and rebuilt after the Second World War.