Ujazdów Park

Ujazdów Park
Ujazdów Park
	Monument to Ignacy Jan Paderewski.
Type	Municipal
Location	Warsaw
Area	5.7 ha
Created	1896
Status	Open all year

Ujazdów Park (

Aleje Ujazdowskie (Ujazdów Avenue), with its many embassies and Sejm

building.

History

From the late

Old Town. In 1619-1625 a palace and garden were built here by Giovanni Battista Trevano for King Sigismund III Vasa

.

In 1782 King Stanisław August Poniatowski bought the village and relocated it about a kilometer west (near what is now the main campus of the Warsaw Polytechnic), while the old village's area (along the axis of the "Royal Road") was turned into Pole Marsowe (the Field of Mars), a large square for military parades, modeled and named after Paris' Champ de Mars.^[2] The village itself was renamed Nowa Wieś ("New Village") and gave its name to the present-day ulica Nowowiejska (New Village Street).

After the Russian takeover of Warsaw in the wake of the

landscape style," a mixture of Romantic garden and Baroque-style lanes.^[1]^[3] The avenue of chestnut

trees in the western part of the area was incorporated into the newly founded park.

At the time of its foundation, the park was one of the most modern in Europe. It featured a large pond, fountains and a

Viggen, Switzerland (1894). The park also had gas lighting, a playground for children, and a public weighing scale (still in use as of 2009). The park's sculptures were carved by Edward Wittig, Pius Weloński and Théodore-Charles Gruyère. After World War II, a monument to Ignacy Jan Paderewski, by Michał Kamieński,^[1]

was added.

Ujazdów Park is a favorite of Varsovians: its playground is popular with children, and many newlyweds use the park as a setting for their wedding photographs. In 2002 the park was completely refurbished.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Ujazdowski Park". Treasures of Warsaw on-line. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
^ "Park Ujazdowski". warszawa1939.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-18.
^ Ałła Matreńczyk (March 2003). "Wiele zrobił dobrego". Przegląd Prawosławny (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-18.

External links

(in Polish) Pre-war pictures of the park

52°13′19″N 21°1′32″E / 52.22194°N 21.02556°E / 52.22194; 21.02556

[warszawa-1] "Ujazdowski Park". Treasures of Warsaw on-line. Retrieved 2008-02-18.

[2] "Park Ujazdowski". warszawa1939.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-18.

[3] Ałła Matreńczyk (March 2003). "Wiele zrobił dobrego". Przegląd Prawosławny (in Polish). Retrieved 2008-02-18.

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