Glorietta

The photograph presents the Classicist Gloriette situated in the north-western corner of the garden, within the walls. The moat, together with the walls and earthen embankments, comprised the Łańcut fortifications erected in the 17th century. At the end of the 18th century, the system was no longer needed; therefore, in direct vicinity of the Castle, the first garden was set up, and linden alleys were planted in place of the embankments, encircling the moat. The Gloriette, in the form of a colonnaded exedra, was designed by Christian Peter Aigner, similarly to the Classicist orangery and neo-Gothic frontal (western) façade (not preserved) for Marshal Princess Izabella Lubomirska née Czartoryska (deceased in 1816). Peter Aigner, together with the plasterer Frederick Bauman with whom he worked at the Gloriette and the orangery, also erected the Little Castle for the Princess, combining the Romantic, Classicist and neo-Gothic façades with the Classicist interiors, as well as the Classicist representative interiors on the first floor of the Castle: the Ballroom, the Theatre, the Grand Dining Room with the Chapel located nearby, in the south-western tower. Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska