Historical background

The palace-garden complex in Nieborów and the sentimental garden in Arkadia are the best-preserved examples in Poland of old rural magnate residences.

Its unique and perfectly preserved elements are the gardens, diversified in form and vegetation, originating from different periods, which together with the residential and farm buildings and landscape architecture create an architectural and garden layout of outstanding compositional, landscape, natural, architectural and artistic value. The most outstanding planners, architects, painters as well as builders and craftsmen worked on the construction and extension of the mansion, among them Szymon Bogumił Zug, Enrico Ittar, Pierre Norblin and many others.

Baroque garden

The garden at Nieborów has a clear spatial layout with characteristic elements of a Baroque garden structure preserved, with a broad avenue emphasising the main axis of the establishment and ornamental parterres, secret gardens, bosquets, and shaped hedgerows. Successive stages of the development of the layout have been preserved – starting from the end of the 17th century, through the development of the 18th century, transformations of the 19th century and the inter-war period, to the post-war reconstruction works.