Worth a Detour
Wilanów Palace
The baroque summer palace of King John III Sobieski, who beat the Turks at Vienna, with formal gardens down to a lake.
- Open
- Check the website
- Price
- Paid; the park is cheaper
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Stanisława Kostki Potockiego 10/16, 02-958 WarsawDirections
- Getting There
- Bus 116 or 180 from the Royal Route, about 30 minutes.
Why Go
Sobieski built Wilanów in the 1680s and 1690s, and it came through the war almost unharmed. Its rooms show royal portraits and painted ceilings, and the gardens lead down in terraces to the lake.
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