Frascati, Warsaw

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Frascati
Three Crosses Square is the westernmost part of Frascati. The Warsaw Stock Exchange is to the right.
Three Crosses Square is the westernmost part of Frascati. The Warsaw Stock Exchange is to the right.
Coordinates: 52°13′48″N 21°01′20″E / 52.2299°N 21.0223°E / 52.2299; 21.0223
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Frascati (

National Museum. The neighbourhood was named after the Italian city of Frascati.[1]

History

View of Poniatowski's estates in 1789, by Zygmunt Vogel. The 15-metre minaret and pavilions can be seen to the centre-left

The history of Frascati dates back to 1779, when a road was constructed from Wiejska Street to the private palace of prince

Marshal Rydz Park).[5][6] In the early 19th century, French restaurateur Simon Chovot founded a recreational and entertainment park on Poniatowski's estates.[7] The subsequent owners of the property, the aristocratic Branicki family, built a larger Renaissance Revival-styled chateau, which became known as the Red Palace (Czerwony Pałac) due to its clinker brick exterior.[8] Designed by Leandro Marconi, the palace housed the French Embassy to Poland until 1939 and was eventually destroyed during World War II
.

Princely Park (Na Książęcem), established in 1779

Another garden, situated north of today's Książęca Street (Princely Street), was established for Poniatowski between 1776 and 1779. The hilly garden contained many novelty and oriental structures, including a 15-metre minaret, a Chinese pavilion and a Middle Eastern outbuilding, which was dubbed by locals as the "Imam House" (Domek Imama).[9][10] None of these remain standing today with the exception of "Elizeum", an underground brick-laid rotunda and a series of corridors and tunnels which once served as a maison de plaisance retreat for the wealthy.[11] A neo-historic waterwell pavilion was erected after the Second World War, when the gardens were transformed into a public park.[12]

One of the historical villas at Frascati

The Frascati neighbourhood was inhabited by many notables and dignitaries, among them nobles, financiers, business tycoons, generals and statesmen like the much-detested

tenement houses at Wiejska Street.[15] It remained an exclusive suburb under the Polish People's Republic, frequently visited by heads of state and communist officials.[16] The large headquarters building of the Polish United Workers' Party
(PZPR) was completed in 1952 on Frascati's northern edge.

At present, Qatar and Kuwait have their embassies and consulates in Frascati. A colony of embassies also exists to the south, just outside of the neighbourhood's borders and around the Ujazdów Park. Frascati is officially part of the South Downtown (Polish: Śródmieście Południowe) division, but remains an independent neighbourhood in its own right.

Landmarks

Three Crosses Square, the westernmost edge of Frascati
The Rectory House

See also

References

  1. ^ Sobieszczańsk, Franciszek Maksymilian (1967). Warszawa: wybór publikacji (in Polish). Państwowy Instytut Wydawn.
  2. ^ Pamiątki Starej Warszawy: zebrane na wystawie urządzonej staraniem T.O.N.Z.P. w maju i czerwcu 1911 roku (in Polish). Wydawn. Tow. opieki nad zabytkami przeszłości. 1911.
  3. ^ Szwankowski, Eugeniusz (1970). Ulice i place Warszawy (in Polish). Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe.
  4. ^ Chrościcki, Juliusz A.; Rottermund, Andrzej (1977). Atlas architektury Warszawy (in Polish). Arkady.
  5. ^ a b "Frascati | Warszawa – oficjalny portal stolicy Polski". www.um.warszawa.pl.
  6. ISBN 978-83-217-2814-8
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  7. ^ Szwankowski, Eugeniusz (1970). Ulice i place Warszawy (in Polish). Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe.
  8. ^ Sobieszczańsk, Franciszek Maksymilian (1967). Warszawa: wybór publikacji (in Polish). Państwowy Instytut Wydawn.
  9. ^ S.A, Wirtualna Polska Media (17 June 2009). "Park na Książęcem w Warszawie – Park na Książęcem w Warszawie". turystyka.wp.pl.
  10. ^ "Minaret". Fundacja Warszawa 1939. 9 May 2017.
  11. ^ Wróblewski, Piotr (24 May 2019). "Elizeum w Warszawie. Co z zakopaną pod ziemią rotundą? Jest inwestor, ale nie ma zgody ratusza". Warszawa Nasze Miasto.
  12. ^ S.A, Wirtualna Polska Media (17 June 2009). "Park na Książęcem w Warszawie – Park na Książęcem w Warszawie". turystyka.wp.pl.
  13. ISBN 978-83-217-2814-8
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  14. ^ a b "Frascati | Topo-Grafie Tadeusza Konwickiego".
  15. ^ "Ulica Wiejska – Ulice – Dzielnica Śródmieście m. st. Warszawy". srodmiescie.warszawa.pl.
  16. ^ Dudek, Antoni (25 August 2002). "Gnom". Wprost.

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