Description of the attraction
Belvedere Palace is a baroque palace located in the center of Warsaw on the Belvedere Allee, on a hill overlooking an artificial lake, on the western edge of the royal azienki park. The palace was built in 1819-1822 according to the project of the architect Yakub Kubitsky.
The first palace appeared on the site of the modern Belvedere palace back in 1662. It was built for the wife of the Lithuanian Chancellor Christopher Sigismund Pats. A century later, the palace passed into the possession of Stanislav Poniatovsky, who decided to place a faience factory on the territory of the palace. The next owner of the Belvedere Palace was Onufry Kitsky in 1798, who almost immediately gave it to his daughter Theresa. After the building passed into the possession of the Russian government in 1818, it was demolished.
In 1824, a new building was built on the site of the old palace, all work was carried out under the direction of the architect Yakub Kubitsky. The new palace housed the Russian prince Konstantin Pavlovich, the Russian emperor used the Belvedere as his residence during his visits to Warsaw.
During World War I, Governor General Hans Hartwig von Beseler lived in the palace. After the restoration of Poland's independence, the Belvedere was used as a residence for several political figures: Piłsudski, Hans Frank and Boleslav Bierut.
Currently, the Belvedere Palace is one of the residences of the Polish president.
