Krasicki's Orangery

A garden pavilion erected in the first half of the 18th century, considered an architectural masterpiece of the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski. The building is currently used as a library.

The conservatory has retained its impressive, richly ornamented and decorated appearance until the present day. Although its interiors were rebuilt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, inside you can still admire a fragment of a wall painting over two hundred and fifty years old, depicting an allegory of the seasons.

The building was erected in the bishop's gardens situated on the right bank of the Łyna. They were devastated during the Swedish Deluge, but the efforts of Teodor Potocki and then Ignacy Krasicki restored them to their former glory. On the initiative of the first of them, a classicist orangery building was built. Its today's appearance, however, is due to Bishop Krasicki, on whose order the entire structure was extended.