Forest manor house in Żywiec

Żywiec, Poland

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

In the town of Żywiec in Poland's Silesian Voivodeship stands a Renaissance Revival manor house completed in 1885. Designed as a forest villa, the building exemplifies the ornamental vocabulary of nineteenth-century revivalism, when European architects looked to Renaissance forms to express sophistication and cultural refinement. Today recognized as an immovable monument in Poland, it remains a notable expression of the period's architectural ambitions in the region.