architect. Władysław Marconi, Henryk Gay, Tadeusz Tołwiński, Józef Pius Dziekoński, Władysław Jabłoński, Kazimierz Skórewicz, Franciszek Lilpop, Władysław Czosnowski, Czesław Przybylski and Praesens, to name a few
finished. unfinished
The spa character of this city is rather recent, the discovery of the mineralized spring occured in 1962 . Today there are several rehabilitation centers and sanatoriums throughout the city. Their patients can partake of the water that comes bubbling up. In the city's main park there is an 'inhalatorium', a structure that allows for taking the water in a very unique way, I've never seen anything like it. It is an ocotogonal outdooor room with no roof. The walls are made of yew branches/trees stuffed a meter thick between a wood support structure. In the center there is a mister that sprays a fog of water up into the air. The mist slowly condenses and drips down the yew walls. It is supposedly healthy to be within the vicinity of the mister and breath in the moist air.
The city itself is located 18km south of Warsaw along the Royal Tract. In the 18th century it became the place to duel. And the words 'Do you know where Jeziorna is' where a threat. At the turn of the 19th and 20th century it became a popular place to build summer villa's and the cream of Warsaw society settled here. The villa's were designed by Warsaw's top architects and in every imagniable style from historicizing neogothic and neoclassic, traditional Polish 'dworek' or Zakopane, Italian renaissance and Rhine castles through secession, modernism and even 30's functionalism.
The city is again experiencing a boom. It is home to business-men, artists and professionals who have taken up residence in newly built neighborhoods and homes. But the wonderful old villa's are crumbling. Some are being torn down or ruthlessly remodeled into nouveau riche monstrosities.
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