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Warszawa
On 27 May 1727 King Augustus II the Strong opened the garden of his Warsaw palace to the townspeople — creating Poland's first public park. Anyone could come in, as long as they were decently dressed. Today the Saxon Garden covers 15.5 hec…
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Wrocław
The Japanese Garden in Wrocław (VROTS-wahv) is one of the oldest Japanese-style gardens in Central Europe, tucked into Szczytnicki Park next to the UNESCO-listed Centennial Hall. Created for the 1913 Centennial Exhibition, it is a calm oas…
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Łódź
It all began in 1946 with a 1.3-hectare plot of medicinal plants in the city's tree nursery. Today the Jakub Mowszowicz Botanical Garden in Łódź covers 67 hectares, making it one of the largest botanical gardens in Poland, with a Japanese…
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Rudy
The ponds, dykes, forests and road layout around Rudy are largely the work of monks who arrived here in 1258. The Cistercian Landscape Compositions of Rudy Wielkie Landscape Park protects not only nature but also a landscape designed by Ci…
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Warszawa
The University of Warsaw Botanic Garden on Aleje Ujazdowskie is the third-oldest botanic garden in Poland and a green enclave in the centre of the capital, right next to the Royal Łazienki. On about 5 hectares grow some 5,000 plant species…
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Rudy
Behind the chancel of the former Cistercian church in Rudy grows an oak that dates back to the last Jagiellonian kings, and right next to it stand young trees named after popes. The Papal Oaks Avenue is a small but unusual spot in the park…
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Racibórz
The Moravian Gate Arboretum in Racibórz (Arboretum Bramy Morawskiej; Racibórz is pronounced roughly "rah-CHEE-boosh") is a free botanical garden and forest on the eastern edge of this town in southern Poland. Its roughly 162 hectares of hi…
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Zielonka
The Forest Arboretum in Zielonka is a free-to-visit tree collection run by the Poznań University of Life Sciences, set deep inside the Puszcza Zielonka forest northeast of Poznań, Poland. About 1,100 species and varieties of trees and shru…
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Rogów
The SGGW Arboretum in Rogów (pronounced roughly ROH-goov) is one of Poland's richest tree gardens, set in forest about 40 km east of Łódź in central Poland. Run by the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), it mixes serious plant scien…
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Bolestraszyce
The Bolestraszyce Arboretum (say "boh-leh-strah-SHIH-tseh") is a botanical garden about 4 miles (7 km) northeast of Przemyśl in southeastern Poland, close to the Ukrainian border. Founded in 1975 on the grounds of an old manor where the pa…
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Kórnik
Around Kórnik Castle grows the oldest and richest arboretum in Poland: more than 3,500 species and varieties of trees and shrubs on over 50 hectares. In 2026 the garden celebrates its 200th anniversary. People come in spring for the magnol…
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Niemcza
In 2024 a beech tree from Wojsławice, known as the Heart of the Garden, won the European Tree of the Year contest. It is a fitting emblem for a place where more than 6,500 species and cultivars of trees and shrubs grow, plus several thousa…
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Siemianowice Śląskie
Bażantarnia is a forest in Bańgów, a district of Siemianowice Śląskie, protected since 1997 as an ecological site of around 39 ha. Oaks, limes, ash trees and sycamores grow here, and right next to the woods are ponds and a small brine grad…
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Szczecin
Jasne Błonia (roughly "YAS-neh BWOH-nya", meaning "Bright Meadows") and Kasprowicz Park form Szczecin's best-loved green space: a broad lawn lined with rows of plane trees that flows into a large park around Lake Rusałka. Jasne Błonia is h…
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Warszawa
The Royal Garden of Light in Wilanów (Królewski Ogród Światła, "VEE-lah-noof") is a seasonal after-dark light show in the Baroque gardens of the Museum of King Jan III's Palace in Warsaw. From autumn until the end of winter, LED sculptures…
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Człuchów
This wooded park on a former peninsula by the ruins of the Teutonic castle is named after a Prussian queen. Louise stopped in Człuchów in 1807 and was taken with the spot, and four years later the townspeople named it Louise's Hill. Today…
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Janowiec
A few kilometres from Kazimierz Dolny, in the village of Trzcianki near Janowiec, lies Poland's first family theme park. Magiczne Ogrody – the Magic Gardens – opened on 23 May 2014 on 18 hectares of landscaped ground planted with around a…
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Międzygórze
On the slope above Międzygórze, at about 700 metres, wooden figures from fairy tales stand among junipers and yews: Hansel and Gretel, Puss in Boots, Polish cartoon goat Koziołek Matołek, the Moomins and the Little Mole. Pride of place goe…
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Zielona Góra
On ul. Botaniczna in Zielona Góra you can see more than a thousand plant species and feed the peacocks in a single walk. The University of Zielona Góra Botanical Garden was recreated in 2007 on part of a pre-war garden, and right next door…
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Bydgoszcz
The Myślęcinek Botanical Garden (roughly "mish-len-CHEE-nek") in Bydgoszcz, north-central Poland, is a landscape garden rather than a greenhouse collection: around 60 hectares (150 acres) of a stream valley with a cascade of ponds, a limes…
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Kraków
The Jagiellonian University Botanical Garden in Kraków is the oldest botanical garden in Poland – a peaceful green oasis less than a kilometer from the Old Town and close to the main railway station. Founded in 1783, it covers almost 10 he…
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Wrocław
The University of Wrocław Botanical Garden is one of the most peaceful things to do in Wrocław (say "VROTS-wahf"), Poland's third-largest city and the capital of Lower Silesia. Tucked behind the cathedral on Ostrów Tumski (Cathedral Island…
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Poznań
In western Poznań, in the district that took its name from it – Ogrody, "Gardens" – about 22 hectares of plant collections from around the world spread out. The Adam Mickiewicz University Botanical Garden is both a research institution and…
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Przelewice
The Dendrological Garden in Przelewice is one of the biggest arboretums in West Pomerania: a landscape park around a palace with roughly 1,200 species of trees, shrubs and perennials, ponds, romantic brick ruins and a Japanese corner. It s…