South of Lazienki in Wilanow is the summer residence Villa Nova built by Jan III Sobieski. Its present appearance dates from 1684 to 1696, when Agostino Locci transformed the villa into large palace. The two monumental side wings were added in the 18th and 19th centuries. The artistic taste of the king and the successive owners of the palace is displayed by the interior: the Chinese room, the Dutch Cabinet and the bed room in which the hero of the ceiling fresco, Apollo on his sun chariot, represents the king. The exterior of the palace is decorated with sculptures and surrounded by a French style baroque garden of ordered proportions, which is in turn bordered on all three sides by an English landscape park with romantic buildings including a Chinese pagoda, a Japanese bridge and a water tower, built to look like a medieval castle. Added by Marta Trzmiel
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