In the morning we visited the expansive Lazienki park with its summer palace and other buildings.
The Łazienki area became part of the estates of Queen Bona Sforza in the mid-16th century when she ordered the construction of a wooden manor house with an Italian garden. In 1624 King Sigismund III Vasa erected the quadrilateral stone Ujazdów Castle.
In 1918, following Poland’s resumption of independence, Łazienki was officially designated a public park.
The park’s flora and fauna include over 9,500 trees and populations of peafowl and red squirrels.
We saw other parts of Warsaw to include the last remaining section of the wall that surrounded the ghetto. (By the way the mostly widely accepted derivation of the word “ghetto” is from the former Venetian copper foundry or casting works. The Venetian dialect word for “cast” or “foundry” is getto (from the verb gettare, meaning “to throw” or “to cast”). Over time, the pronunciation shifted in the local dialect to ghetto.)
We got off the bus and walked through town from the monument to the uprising.
We saw a group of youngsters dressed in in traditional costumes who were happy to strike a pose before they performed traditional folk dances.
Changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier.
