🏘️ Wilanów Królewski

Wilanów Królewski is a neighbourhood, and a City Information System area, in Warsaw, Poland, within the Wilanów district. Its northeast portion is a residential area with low-rise single-family housing. The neighbourhood features the Wilanów Palace, a Baroque royal residence, built in 1696, for John III Sobieski, the king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. Currently it houses the King John III Museum in Wilanów, and includes a large Italian garden, with an area of 24 ha, known as the Wilanów Garden. The area also includes the St. Anne Collegiate Church, a Renaissance Revival Roman Catholic parish church dating to 1870, and the Poster Museum, a branch of the Warsaw National Museum, dedicated to the history of the poster design. Northeastern portion of the neighbourhood features the Morysin landscape park and nature reserve, majority of which is covered by a riparian forest. It also includes the Wilanów Lake and Wilanówka river. Together with the areas of Wilanów Niski and Wilanów Wysoki, Wilanów Królewski forms the neighbourhood of Old Wilanów.