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gmina Łubowo
Lednica Landscape Park protects the countryside around Lake Lednica ("led-NEE-tsa") in western Poland, halfway between Poznań and Gniezno on the Piast Trail. It's where Poland's story begins: on the island of Ostrów Lednicki stood a 10th-c…
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Czajewszczyzna
Suwałki Landscape Park (roughly "soo-VOW-kee") is Poland's oldest landscape park and one of the most striking pieces of scenery in the country's far northeast. Within about 63 km² (24 sq mi) you'll find steep glacial hills, fields scattere…
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Sokołda
When Knyszyn Forest Landscape Park was established in 1988, it was the largest landscape park in Poland. Today it covers 72,860 ha in twelve municipalities north and east of Białystok, and forests make up 78% of its area. It is a good choi…
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Krutyń
The Masurian Landscape Park (Mazurski Park Krajobrazowy) protects more than 560 km² (215 square miles) of forest, glacial lakes and old villages in the heart of Poland's Masurian Lake District, between the resort towns of Mikołajki, Mrągow…
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Władysławowo
The Coastal Landscape Park (Nadmorski Park Krajobrazowy) protects the most varied stretch of Poland's Baltic coast, north of Gdańsk: the whole Hel Peninsula, the cliffs at Rozewie and Jastrzębia Góra, coastal peat bogs and the shallow Puck…
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Stara Wieś
Here the River Warta swings in a great loop through the limestone hills of the Wieluń Upland, and along its banks springs pulse, pushing water out alternately from a rock crevice and from the bed of an oxbow lake. Załęcze Landscape Park, c…
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gmina Czarna Dąbrówka
In the early 20th century engineers shortened the Słupia: a 13-kilometre canal through Lake Głębokie cuts off a 26-kilometre bend of the river and gives the power station at Gałąźnia Mała a head of 38.5 metres. The Słupia Valley Landscape…
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Iława
Lake Jeziorak stretches for 27.5 kilometres, making it the longest lake in Poland — and in 1993 the Iława Lake District Landscape Park was created around it. The lake has 17 islands, and cormorants, herons and white-tailed eagles nest in t…
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Wałbrzych
Książ Castle stands on a rocky spur above the gorge of the Pełcznica River, and it is this mountain-like landscape within the city limits of Wałbrzych that Książ Landscape Park protects. Its 3,155 hectares hold deep ravines, beech woods, t…
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Jurków
White gypsum cliffs, loess gullies, karst ponds and slopes covered in feather grass: in places, the Ponidzie region looks like a piece of steppe dropped into southern Poland. The Nida Landscape Park (Nadnidziański Park Krajobrazowy) protec…
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Muszyna
Poprad Landscape Park (POH-prahd) is one of the largest protected landscape areas in Poland, covering most of the Beskid Sądecki mountains near the Slovak border. It takes in the forested Radziejowa and Jaworzyna Krynicka ranges, the gorge…
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gmina Lubsza
Almost 80 per cent of the park is forest, mostly pine growing on sandy dunes, while the Oder valley holds riverside woods, oak-hornbeam forest and oxbow lakes covered with water chestnut. Stobrawa Landscape Park is one of the largest lands…
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Szczebrzeszyn
By a spring on the edge of Szczebrzeszyn stands the world's first monument to a beetle, unveiled in 2002 as a nod to Jan Brzechwa's famous Polish tongue-twister about a beetle buzzing in the reeds of Szczebrzeszyn. Around the town stretche…
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gmina Stoczek
Introduction The Bug is not a river that stays neatly in place. Across the Nadbużański Landscape Park it still bends through broad meanders, cuts into sandy banks, creates islands and sandbars and leaves old channels behind as oxbow lakes.…
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Łódź
Łódź is associated with factories and flat plains, yet just beyond its north-eastern edge the land suddenly rises into ravines, beech woods and river springs. Łódź Hills Landscape Park protects the most upland-like scenery in central Polan…
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Kraków
Bielany-Tyniec Landscape Park (Bielańsko-Tyniecki Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "byeh-LAHN-skoh ti-NYETS-kee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is a green belt along the Vistula in western Kraków, combining the Benedictine abbey in Tyniec, the Cama…
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Jerzmanowice
The Kraków Valleys Landscape Park (Dolinki Krakowskie, roughly "doh-LEEN-kee krah-KOV-skyeh") is a patchwork of limestone valleys, gorges and rock towers that begins right at Kraków's northwestern city limits. Established in 1981, it stret…
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Reskowo
Kashubian Landscape Park (Kaszubski Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "kah-SHOOB-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is the heart of the Kashubian Lake District in northern Poland: 34 lakes larger than 10 hectares, including Lake Raduńskie Górne an…
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Kazimierz Dolny
Kazimierz Landscape Park (Kazimierski Park Krajobrazowy) is the oldest protected landscape park in Poland's Lublin region, wrapped around the historic river town of Kazimierz Dolny (say "KAH-zhee-myesh DOL-nee"). It protects a wild, unregu…
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Policko
Warta Landscape Park (Nadwarciański Park Krajobrazowy) is one of the best places in western Poland for birdwatching, a broad floodplain of the Warta River between the small towns of Pyzdry and Ląd (pronounced "lont"). There is no ticket ga…
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Kocierz Rychwałdzki
Little Beskids Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Beskidu Małego, roughly "PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee BES-kee-doo MAH-weh-go") is a quiet mountain park in southern Poland, between the towns of Bielsko-Biała, Żywiec and Wadowice. Gentle fore…
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Brenna
Silesian Beskids Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Beskidu Śląskiego, roughly "PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee BES-kee-doo SHLOHN-skee-eh-go") is the largest mountain landscape park in Silesia, southern Poland: almost 39,000 hectares of forest,…
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Pilchowice
Bóbr Valley Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Doliny Bobru, roughly "PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee doh-LEE-nee BOH-broo") protects the winding valley of the Bóbr River between Jelenia Góra and Lwówek Śląski in Lower Silesia, southwestern Pola…
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Góra Świętej Anny
Góra Świętej Anny (St Anne's Mountain) Landscape Park protects 5,051 ha of the Chełm Ridge, the westernmost part of the Silesian Upland, which rises above the flat Opole Plain. It is one of the smaller landscape parks in Poland, yet it hol…