Park Romantyczny w Arkadii (Poland)

🌟 By robert1stepien 🔎 " view of the 1784 aqueduct located in the Romantic Park in Arkadia and based on the architecture of Roman waterworks

Arkadia (Polish pronunciation: [arˈkadja]) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nieborów, within Łowicz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 6 km east of Łowicz and 50 km north-east of the regional capital Łódź. The village has an approximate population of 250. Arkadia is famous for its English Garden Park set up by Helena Radziwiłł in 1779 with the designers Szymon Bogumil Zug and Henryk Ittar.

In the 70s of the 18th century a new style in gardening called English style appeared in Poland. It originated at the beginning of the century in England and then was gradually spreading across the other European countries. The English style definitely opposed artificiality and regularity of baroque gardens. It promoted unrestricted and emotional compositions of sentimental or symbolic forms and architectural constructions referring to ancient and medieval works of arts as well as to the everyday life in the country, often also to the overseas exotic forms. The style had been transformed together with philosophic, ideological and esthetical changes of the epoch from sentimental forms to the vision of romantic garden.

The aqueduct was built in 1784 over a water cascade and was based on Roman waterworks architecture. Functionally, it is a bridge connecting the banks of the Lupia River right at the mouth of the Great Pond. A design of the Aqueduct from 1784 signed by Szymon Bogumił Zug has been preserved. Additions to the structure were designed in 1800 by Henryk Ittar. After 1864 the Aqueduct was completely demolished by successive owners of the Arcadian park. In 1951 Gerard Ciołek reconstructed the structure and cleaned up the water network." 🗨️ Drop a comment below !