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Wilamowice
In Pisarzowice, a village in the Wilamowice district known for growing ornamental plants, the family-run Pudełko nursery keeps a Japanese garden that was created after the owners travelled to Japan. Stone paths lead between ponds with smal…
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Warszawa
Krasiński Garden (Ogród Krasińskich, pronounced "kra-SHEEN-skeekh") is a historic city park in Warsaw's Muranów district, created in 1676 as the Baroque garden of the Krasiński Palace and open to the public since the 1760s. Today it is a c…
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Lublin
Lublin's thickest tree grows in the Saxon Garden: a white poplar in the southern part of the park measures more than 6 metres round and has been a protected natural monument since 1997. The city's oldest public park was laid out in 1837 in…
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Goczałkowice-Zdrój
The Kapias Gardens in Goczałkowice-Zdrój are the show gardens of a family-run nursery where you can spend a whole day – without paying a single złoty for admission. More than 30 themed gardens and corners spread over about 4.5 ha: from Jap…
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Muszyna
In March or April, depending on the winter, the slope of Sucha Góra in Muszyna is covered with millions of crocuses. The Sensory Gardens, also called the Gardens of the Senses, are a free spa park designed to engage sight, hearing, smell,…
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Poznań
The Poznań Palm House (Palmiarnia Poznańska, say "pahl-MYAR-nya") in Wilson Park is the largest palm house in Poland and one of the largest in Europe: more than 4,600 m² under glass, about 1,100 plant species and an aquarium with some 170…
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Gliwice
The Gliwice Palm House (Palmiarnia Miejska, roughly "pahl-MYAR-nya") is a large botanical glasshouse in Chopin Park in the center of Gliwice, a city in Poland's Upper Silesian industrial region. Its five pavilions hold palms brought here i…
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Wałbrzych
The Wałbrzych Palm House (Wałbrzych is pronounced roughly "VAH-wb-zhikh") is a historic glasshouse built in the early 20th century by the aristocratic owners of nearby Książ Castle. Under its glass dome grow date palms and more than 250 pl…
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Wałbrzych
The Wałbrzych Palm House (say "VAHW-bzhikh") in the Lubiechów district is a historic glasshouse built by Prince Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg, lord of nearby Książ Castle, for his wife, the British-born socialite Daisy, Princess of Pless.…
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Poznań
In the Sołacz district, between Wielkopolska Avenue and the Bogdanka valley, lies a park best known for its avenue of silver maples. Adam Wodziczko Park covers more than 7 hectares and has over 2,000 trees of 54 species, and its patron was…
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Świdnica
Fountains, a rose garden, a pond with footbridges and a stone smith from Germanic mythology: Central Park in Świdnica is the town's best-known green space. It covers more than 9 ha and lies just south of the Old Town, so it fits easily int…
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Siemianowice Śląskie
Górnik Park in Michałkowice, a district of Siemianowice Śląskie, is a former manor park surrounding a palace known locally as the Zameczek (Little Castle). On its edge stands a neo-Gothic forester's and gardener's house, anglers sit by the…
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Szczawnica
Park Górny – the Upper Park – is Szczawnica's oldest spa garden, laid out from 1824, when Jan Kutscher began creating it. It occupies a rise on the east side of ul. Zdrojowa and Dietl Square, and among its trees stand a Gothic Revival spa…
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Jaworzno
Gródek Park in Jaworzno (pronounced roughly "GROO-dek" and "yah-VOZH-noh"), nicknamed the "Polish Maldives," is a flooded former dolomite quarry turned public park, with turquoise lakes, a winding wooden boardwalk and gazebos standing in t…
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Gliwice
Right in the centre of Gliwice, between Sienkiewicza street and the city's east–west expressway, lies a fenced park with cast-iron lions, an oak more than two hundred years old and a palm house in the middle. Fryderyk Chopin Park was creat…
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Kołobrzeg
Beneath the paths of this park above Kołobrzeg's beach there was once a military cemetery for the town's defenders of 1807, where columns from the medieval town hall served as gravestones for Joachim Nettelbeck and Ernst von Waldenfels. St…
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Katowice
In 1928 two lionesses moved into this Katowice park – a gift from the owner of a circus in Dresden. The lions are long gone, but Tadeusz Kościuszko Park is still the most valuable green space in Katowice: with a 16th-century wooden church…
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Sosnowiec
In the 1960s miners from the Kazimierz-Juliusz colliery, scouts and local residents of Kazimierz Górniczy gave up their free time to drain marshland here, shape the banks of the ponds and plant trees. The result was the Leśna sports and le…
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Kalisz
The City Park in Kalisz (pronounced roughly "KAH-leesh") is a leafy riverside park in central Poland whose history goes back to 1798, making it one of the oldest public parks in the country. In the 19th century it was considered Poland's m…
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Legnica
Legnica City Park (Park Miejski, pronounced "park MYAY-skee") is the oldest and largest park in this Lower Silesian city: about 58 hectares of greenery right next to the Old Town, stretching along the Kaczawa River and the Młynówka mill st…
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Elbląg
This park was once home to the grandest villa in Elbląg – the residence of Carl Ziese, son-in-law of the industrialist Ferdinand Schichau, where an organ played in the music room, the King of Saxony came to visit and dinner was served for…
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Łęknica
Muskau Park (Park Mużakowski in Polish, pronounced moo-zhah-KOV-skee) is a vast 19th-century English-style landscape park straddling the Neisse River on the Polish–German border. Of its 728 hectares (about 1,800 acres), 522 lie in Łęknica,…
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Piła
As late as the mid-1970s, the island between two arms of the Gwda river was a marsh that locals called Gardolina. Today it's the Island Park, about 10 hectares of greenery in the very centre of Piła that the town itself calls "the heart of…
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Białowieża
All that remains of the tsars' palace in Białowieża is a red-brick kitchen gate, but the park that surrounded it has survived almost intact. The Palace Park was laid out around 1900 around the hunting residence of the Russian tsars; today…