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Castle Museum Lancut (Poland)

Description: The history of Łańcut stretches back to the early Middle Ages, founded as a town in 1349 under King Casmir ... more

Castle Museum Lancut (Poland) ... the Great. The major landowning families in Łańcut were, successively, the Pilecki’s, Stadnicki’s, Lubomirki’s and the Potocki’s. In the second half of the 18th century, the then current owner of Łańcut, Izabela Lubomirska of the Czartoryski family, converted the fortress into palace-park complex. She employed outstanding artists such as Szymon Bogumił Zug, Jan Christian Kamsetzer, Christian Piotr Aigner, Fryderyk Bauman and Vincenzo Brenna. The most important changes were made to the layout and equipment of the castle, adapting them to the needs of the fashion of the times. The palace was filled with excellent works of art. In the 1870s, work started to create the park surrounding the castle. After levelling the embankments and re-aligning the road surrounding the moat, lime-trees were planted out creating an avenue.

Newest Review: ... that in that particular period of history, Poland was an extremely prosperous nation. This state of affairs continued through to the turn of the last century, at which stage Lancut Castle was undergoing substantial modernisation and renovation. Between 1899 and 1911, electricity was installed throughout and the plumbing extensively renewed. At the same time the Stables and Coach House ... more

... complex were built to house the then owner's (Roman Count Potocki) huge collection of horse carriages. Over the centuries, art and furniture had built into a stunning collection, housed in the most opulent of surroundings here at Lancut. All of that real...more

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Castle Museum Lancut (Poland): ONE OF POLANDS GREAT NATIONAL TREASURES (3441 words)
by - written on 12/09/06 (Very useful, 771 readings)
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Lancut (pron. wineshoot) was one of the very first places in Poland that my then fiancée and I visited in our first flush of romance. Indeed, it was on the Sunday of my very first visit to Poland - the "meet the parents" trip in June 2001. That day trip to Lancut was rather rushed for several reasons, partly though due to the heavens opening. It was a very hot and humid, thundery day. Outside the sky was as black as night, we saw little of the gardens, or indeed the Coach House. During the five years that followed I have always wanted to return on a finer day - partly because, due to the weather, we were unable to take photographs that first ... Read the complete review