Easy hikes and walks around gmina Puławy

Beautifully maintained park with nicely incorporated architecture

Worth visiting, interesting place.

It's impressive, I wasn't lucky enough to get in.

Nice place, interesting history.

The Czartoryski era in Puławy ended in 1831. Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, owner of Puławy since 1812, was sentenced in absentia to beheading by the tsar for his participation in the November Uprising, and all of his estates in the Russian partition were confiscated. Part of the palace and its surroundings were taken to Russia, part was sold at auction, e.g. the Meissonier wainscoting from the Golden Hall. It was possible to save the collections from the Temple of the Sibyl and the Gothic House, as well as the library (about 60 thousand volumes), which were taken in stages to Paris (they later returned to Krakow, where the Czartoryski Museum was established on their basis in 1876). Zofia Zamoyska, née Czartoryska, took some of the sculptures (including "Tancred and Clorinda", a sarcophagus, lions, an obelisk dedicated to Prince Józef Poniatowski) to Podzamcze near Maciejowice, from where they were returned to Puławy in 1947. Many elements of small park architecture disappeared after 1840.

Czartoryski Palace in Puławy - a palace in Puławy, whose beginnings date back to the second half of the 17th century and are associated with the history of the magnate families: Lubomirski, Sieniawski and, above all, Czartoryski. The first Baroque palace of a semi-defensive nature was built in Puławy in the years 1671-1679 by the Grand Marshal of the Crown Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski. The palace was designed by the Dutch architect Tylman van Gameren. The building had a rectangular shape with four alcoves in the corners, and was prepared to perform defensive functions. From this phase of the building, the seventeenth-century Baroque entrance hall with preserved original colonnade and the form and decoration of the vault has been preserved, in a state close to its original. The first garden was also created at that time, of which it is known that there were alleys and regular carpet parterres below the escarpment. In 1706, when Puławy became the property of the Sieniawski family, Swedish troops destroyed the palace and its surroundings during the Great Northern War. Read more https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%82ac_Czartoryskich_w_Pu%C5%82awach

In the Temple of the Sibyl, Princess Izabela Czartoryska collected family mementos of the Sieniawski, Lubomirski and Czartoryski families, as well as mementos of great Poles: kings, leaders, scholars and poets, which were to remind us of the glorious national past after the partitions of Poland. There were, among others, objects related to Bolesław the Brave, Casimir the Great, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Nicolaus Copernicus (a brick from the tenement house at Kopernika 30, then considered the birthplace of the astronomer[2]) and Jan Kochanowski. In the lower storey of the Temple, an obelisk dedicated to Prince Józef Poniatowski[3] was placed. In 1830, before the November Uprising, the collections were evacuated to Paris. Then they returned to Kraków, becoming the nucleus of the Czartoryski Princes Museum. In the Temple of the Sibyl, the museum was reactivated only in 1938 and is open to the public to this day.

The Temple of the Sybil in Puławy – a rotunda-shaped building that was part of the palace and park complex at the Czartoryski Palace in Puławy; the first Polish museum. It was a garden imitation (folly) of an ancient temple.