Copper-Roof Palace
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The Copper-Roof Palace (Polish: Pałac pod Blachą) is an 18th-century palace in Warsaw, Poland. It takes its unusual name (which is less precisely phrased in the Polish original) from its copper roof — a rarity in the first half of the 18th century.
The palace is contiguous with Warsaw's Royal Castle, and down a slope from the Castle Square and Old Town, at .
The palace was built in 1720 and was presented to Prince Józef Poniatowski by his uncle, Poland's last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski. The younger Poniatowski was a successful commander in the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising, and later one of Napoleon Bonaparte's marshalls.
The Copper-Roof Palace now hosts a collection of oriental carpets.
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