Kazimierz Palace
The Roman-Baroque marble busts Giovanni Francesco Rossi carved here in the 1650s — likenesses of Roman emperors, King John II Casimir, and Queen Marie Louise Gonzaga — are today displayed at Gripsholm Castle in Sweden.
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Built in 1637–41 for King Władysław IV as a Baroque suburban villa with a loggia overlooking the Vistula, remodelled in 1765–68 by Domenico Merlini for a Corps of Cadets, and serving Warsaw University since 1816. Its original interior mixed Venetian-style gilded ceilings with black Dębnik and brown Chęciny marble portals — and its garden sculptures were partly bought in Florence, partly produced in Prague by Adrien de Vries.
What to look for
- Black Dębnik and brown Chęciny marble portals from the 17th-century interior
- The garden-facade loggia designed to frame views of the Vistula and the Praga bank
- The rectangular corner-tower form — a Poggio-Reale villa type named after the Villa Poggio Reale in Naples, used by architect Giovanni Trevano
On the Royal Route at Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28; the building is an active Warsaw University campus.
Kazimierz Palace is one of 36 sights worth the detour in Warsaw, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Warsaw pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Warsaw
- PGE Narodowy (Kazimierz Górski National Stadium)Poland's biggest football bowl hangs a retractable PVC roof from a central spire — when the mechanism works, it unfolds like a sail over 58,580 seats.
- Palace of Culture and ScienceStalin's skyscraper — Poles nicknamed it "elephant in lacy underwear" and never tore it down.
- Royal Castle in WarsawThe Nazis dynamited this building in 1944. Every room you walk through was rebuilt, stone by stone, between 1971 and 1984.
- Warsaw Old TownBombed flat in WWII and rebuilt from scratch — the world's first fully resurrected historic city core, now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- National Museum in WarsawThe gallery that brought Nubian Christian art from a Sudanese cathedral to Warsaw.
- Wilanów PalaceBuilt for a warrior king while Poland still existed — and open as a museum since 1805.