Ujazdów Castle

This guide to Ujazdów Castle in Warsaw traces the site from Anna Jagiellon's sixteenth-century residence through its Baroque rebuilding by the Vasa kings, its later life as barracks and a military hospital, and the ruin left by fighting in 1944. It follows the deliberate decision the government made a decade later that finished the castle off, and the three museum men, Aleksander Gieysztor, Stanisław Lorentz and Jan Zachwatowicz, who spent years afterward pushing to bring it back. Look closely at the stonework as you walk the courtyard.