- Ujazdów Park
Infobox park
park=Ujazdów Park
image size=250px
caption=Monument toIgnacy Jan Paderewski .
type=Municipal
location=Warsaw
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size=5.7 haen icon cite web |author = |url = http://www.um.warszawa.pl/v_syrenka/perelki/index_en.php?mi_id=122&dz_id=13 |title = Ujazdowski Park |work = Treasures of Warsaw on-line |publisher = |pages = |page = |date = |accessdate = 2008-02-18]
opened=1896
operator=
annual visitors=
status=Open all yearUjazdów Park ( _pl. Park Ujazdowski) is one of the most picturesque
park s ofWarsaw ,Poland . It borders "Aleje Ujazdowskie " (Ujazdów Avenue), with its many embassies andSejm building.History
From the late
Middle Ages the area had been occupied by the village ofUjazdów , located several miles south ofWarsaw 's Old Town. In 1619-1625 a palace and garden were built here byGiovanni Battista Trevano for KingSigismund 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 militaryparade s, modeled and named afterParis ' "Champ de Mars ". [pl icon cite web |author = |url = http://www.warszawa1939.pl/index.php?r1=ujazdowski&r3=0 |title = Park Ujazdowski |work = warszawa1939.pl |publisher = |pages = |page = |date = |accessdate = 2008-02-18] 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
Napoleonic Wars , the area lost its military character and became a venue for annual fairs. It also served as a place of entertainment, with merry-go-rounds and open-air stands placed there every summer. In 1893, under MayorSokrates Starynkiewicz , the renowned garden architectFranciszek Szanior was commissioned to turn the former Field of Mars into a public park in the-then popular "landscape style," a mixture of Romantic garden and Baroque-style lanes. [pl icon cite web |author = Ałła Matreńczyk |url = http://www.pporthodoxia.com.pl/artykul.php?id=336 |title = Wiele zrobił dobrego |work = Przegląd Prawosławny |publisher = |pages = |page = |month = March | year = 2003 |accessdate = 2008-02-18] The avenue ofchestnut 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 reinforced-concrete bridge over the southern part of the pond, built by the renowned engineer
William Lindley . The bridge was the second construction built of that material in the world, after the bridge inViggen ,Switzerland (1894). The park also hadgas lighting , a playground for children, and a publicweighing scale (still in use as of 2006). The park's sculptures were carved byEdward Wittig ,Pius Weloński andTheodor Charles Gruyere . After World War II, a monument toIgnacy Jan Paderewski , byMichał Kamieński , 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
ee also
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Ujazdów Castle
*Łazienki Park
*Pole Mokotowskie External links
* [http://www.warszawa1939.pl/index.php?r1=ujazdowski&r3=0 Pre-war pictures of the park]
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