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Re: Scotch & Sirens

By:Sylwia (212.76.37.182)
Date: 20 November 2006, at 11:34 pm

In Response To: Re: Scotch & Sirens (Cristal)

LOL! I think you'll be surprised!
The pictures on both this board and the message board are from Poland. Also, the palace that illustrates the Scotch and Sirens story. Actually the palace and the amphitheatre with the Greek columns are both in Warsaw in Lazienki (Baths) park, and the aqueduct is some 100 km from Warsaw in Arkadia - a Romantic park built by a noble woman � Helena Radziwill. I chose them because they are exactly from the epoch, in the settings of English stylised parks. There are many more buildings there that serve nothing but pure pleasure like temples of Diana or Sybille, gothic castles, hunting cottages, some Greek or Roman establishments, Egyptian temple, orangeries, there were also a lot of Chinese elements there, but most of them didn�t survive the war. It all looks like taken directly from Northanger Abbey.
If you go here, see the pictures on the page and in the subcategories, you'll have some general view on Lazienki. Lazienki Park
It was a private residence of Poland's last king Stanislaw August Poniatowski. Also, in one of those buildings called Little White House the French king Luis XVIII lived for some years before going back to France. It's practically in the centre of Warsaw today. The park is really quite big - 80 ha. It's a place where I grew up, so I'm very sentimental about it. The theatre is still used during summertime and there�s also Chopin�s monument where every Sunday free concerts are held. Generally Lazienki serves many cultural purposes just as the king would have it.
The other � Arkadia is not even attached to any palace. Just a place when people may come and stroll. However, the various buildings there are comfortable enough to stay a night � must have been very handy. Arkadia
Lazienki park is in neo-classicist style, while Arkadia has more romantic elements i.e. neo-gothic.
Sylwia
BTW I took there Laura so that she had the feeling of Austen's times. Not that she didn't when she visited Bath, but in those parks time stopped at the beginning of the 19th century.

Messages In This Thread

Scotch & Sirens -- Anne Alspach (71.203.23.141) -- 17 November 2006, at 6:11 pm
- Re: Scotch & Sirens -- Laura (69.167.184.46) -- 17 November 2006, at 9:37 pm
  - Re: Scotch & Sirens -- Cristal (68.159.150.140) -- 18 November 2006, at 7:21 pm
    - Re: Scotch & Sirens -- Laura (69.167.184.46) -- 19 November 2006, at 2:04 pm
      - Re: Scotch & Sirens -- carrie (172.190.155.5) -- 19 November 2006, at 7:45 pm
        
        Re: Scotch & Sirens -- Cristal (68.159.141.120) -- 20 November 2006, at 9:15 pm
        
        Re: Scotch & Sirens -- Sylwia (212.76.37.182) -- 20 November 2006, at 11:34 pm
        
        Website Pictures -- Cristal (68.159.141.120) -- 29 December 2006, at 8:54 am
        
        Re: Website Pictures -- Sylwia (212.76.37.182) -- 31 December 2006, at 12:21 pm
        
        Re: Website Pictures -- Cristal (72.146.50.231) -- 3 January 2007, at 1:51 pm
        
        Smilies -- Sylwia (212.76.37.182) -- 7 December 2006, at 2:10 am

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