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Pokrzywna
Opawskie Mountains Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Góry Opawskie, roughly "PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee GOO-ry oh-PAHV-skee-eh") is the Polish part of the Eastern Sudetes between the towns of Prudnik and Głuchołazy, right on the Czech bord…
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Turew
This park protects not a forest or a mountain but farmland, or more precisely a network of tree belts between the fields. General Dezydery Chłapowski began planting them almost 200 years ago. The result, between Kościan and Śrem, is an agr…
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Kotowice
The Eagles' Nests Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Orlich Gniazd, OR-leekh GNYAHZ-d) is a Jurassic landscape of limestone rock towers and medieval castle ruins in southern Poland, between Mstów near Częstochowa and the Biała Przemsza vall…
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Pobiedziska
Promno Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Promno; say "PROM-no") is a pocket of lakes, oak and pine woods and glacial hills just east of Poznań, the capital of the Greater Poland region. At around 13 square miles it is small, yet it holds f…
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Murowana Goślina
Puszcza Zielonka Landscape Park (say "POOSH-chah zhyeh-LON-kah") is a large protected forest just northeast of Poznań, one of the biggest cities in western Poland. It covers more than 12,000 hectares of woodland, glacial lakes and quiet fo…
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Sokołowsko
Sudety Wałbrzyskie Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Sudetów Wałbrzyskich, roughly "PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee soo-DEH-tuv vahw-BZHIS-kikh") is a quiet mountain park south of the city of Wałbrzych in Lower Silesia, southwestern Poland. It…
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Elbląg
The Elbląg Upland Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Wysoczyzny Elbląskiej) protects more than 130 km² of beech forest, deep ravines and streams between the city of Elbląg and the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland. The upland rises steeply…
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Poznań
Every day at noon a narrow-gauge steam locomotive in Rataje Park puffs out clouds of smoke and sounds its whistle – though it never leaves. It is the party piece of the Środa County Railway open-air museum, set in the heart of Poznań's sec…
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Poznań
In the 1950s a parachute tower more than 30 m high loomed over the Sołacz ponds – and until 1956 the park was even named after Stalin. It is hard to picture today: Sołacz Park is a calm, English-style landscape park in the Bogdanka valley,…
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Poznań
A park in Poznań's Łazarz district once had a statue of a US president sculpted by Gutzon Borglum – the same artist who carved the presidents' faces into Mount Rushmore. The Germans destroyed the statue, but Wilson Park still tells an inte…
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Rogalin
Rogalin Landscape Park (Rogaliński Park Krajobrazowy; Rogalin is pronounced "ro-GAH-leen") protects a stretch of the Warta River valley about 12 miles south of Poznań, in western Poland. It is famous for one of Europe's largest groups of c…
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Sobótka
During two Scandinavian glaciations the solitary Ślęża stood above the ice sheet like an island — geologists call such a peak a nunatak, and the gabbro boulder fields on its slopes are a souvenir of that era. Ślęża Landscape Park, establis…
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Gdańsk
Tricity Landscape Park (Trójmiejski Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "troy-MYAY-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is a green belt of forests above Gdańsk, Sopot and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast, where ravines, beech woods and pine forest lie…
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Wdzydze Kiszewskie
Wdzydze Landscape Park (Wdzydzki Park Krajobrazowy, roughly "vdzih-DZEH-skee PAHRK krah-yo-brah-ZOH-vee") is a Kashubian lake and forest park in northern Poland, built around Lake Wdzydze. Pine woods, peat bogs, the Wda River and wide open…
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Soblówka
On the summit of Pilsko (1,557 m) dwarf mountain pine grows, and some scientists see traces of ancient glaciers here. Around it lies Żywiec Landscape Park, which its managers describe as the oldest landscape park in the Polish Carpathians.…