Potocki Palace - Private

Potocki Palace was built between 1685-1709 on the initiative of Chancellor St. A. Szczuka. It was erected exactly on the spot fifteenth-century castle Kaznowskich, according to the draft royal architect A. Locci. Final, took on the shape of the baroque residence but only in the eighteenth century, when it took custody of the Lithuanian general of artillery, the Marshal of the Court of the Crown - Eustachy Potocki and his wife Mary of Katskich. After the death of the Potocki Palace passed from hand to hand. In 1920, Bronislaw Korwin-Szlubowski forwarded it to the Treasury. At the end of World War II monument destroyed by the retreating Germans. Residence was rebuilt in the 60s of the twentieth century. Potocki Palace - a majestic, similar to Wilanów - according to the eighteenth-century project of architect Giovanni Fontana - perched on a horseshoe plan. On the monument consists of a two-storey main body and connected into one whole wing of the gate towers,