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Saxon Gardens

  • August 15, 2006
  • Rated 4 of 5 by mightywease from Carshalton, United Kingdom
Saxon Gardens

Unfortunately, visiting Warsaw in January meant that the weather was not always conducive to wandering round the lovely parks that form part of the city. It wasn’t so much the snow – parks can look lovely with a covering of white – rather the cold and ice, which meant negotiating pathways became more ice-skating than walking.

However one park, close to our hotel, that we did make a number of visits to was the Saxon Gardens. The gardens were designed and laid out in the early 18th century and were, originally, the private gardens for the royal residence of Morsztyn Palace. In 1727, they became a public park and in the middle of the 19th Century they were re-designed.

At the eastern end of the park is Pi³sudaki Square and the Tomb of the Unknown Solider (please see separate tip). Inside the park are a Fountain and Watertower (designed by the architect Henryk Marconi), some pieces of 18th-century statuary, and a lake, frozen over and looking beautiful.

Since returning, I have seen a number of photographs showing the park looking wonderfully colourful with spring and summer flowers. Visiting in winter, we inevitably missed that colour, but what we did see was a picturesque scene of filigree tree branches covered in frost and ground swathed in snow. Lovely, quiet, and relaxing.

From journal Winter in Warsaw

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