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Gardens
Zakopane
Rówień Krupowa is a large, flat meadow in the very centre of Zakopane, right next to the lower end of Krupówki street. From its lawns you can see Giewont and Gubałówka, and through the year it hosts the town's biggest outdoor events, from…
Gardens
Krynki
Silvarium is a forest garden run by the foresters of the Krynki Forest District on the edge of the Knyszyn Forest in north-eastern Poland. It is neither a botanical garden nor a zoo: it shows what grows and lives in the forests of Podlasie…
Gardens
Chudów
The Silesian Botanical Garden in Mikołów (pronounced roughly "mee-KOH-woof") is one of the largest botanical gardens in Poland, covering about 117 hectares (290 acres) on the southern edge of the Katowice metropolitan area. It occupies a f…
Gardens
Radzionków
On Księża Góra hill in Radzionków, nature is reclaiming land that miners dug up for centuries. The Silesian Botanical Garden in Radzionków is a habitat garden: instead of neat flowerbeds it shows meadows, grasslands and thickets that are b…
Gardens
Opole
As late as the 1930s, Bolko Island could only be reached by boat. Today bridges lead onto it, and the island, surrounded by the Oder and the Flood Relief Canal, is Opole's green lung: a town park with ponds, old oaks and a zoo. Locals come…