Museum
Royal Baths
Agrykola 1, 00-460 Warszawa
Neoclassical island palace born from a Baroque bathhouse, reached by two colonnaded footbridges over an artificial lake.
This guide to the Royal Baths in Warsaw opens with German engineers in the last winter of the war, packing the palace's cellars with explosives on Hitler's orders to erase the city. It reaches back two centuries to a Baroque bathhouse built for a Polish prince, then to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski, who turned it into a summer palace on an artificial lake and hosted Thursday dinners there for years with poets, scholars and generals. Those dinners, the guide notes, gave rise to Poland's first literary magazine.
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