Planty Park in Krakow
Planty—Park Planty Krakowskie—was laid out as a green belt on the very site of Kraków’s medieval defensive walls. The city had outgrown those fortifications by the early 19th century, and after the Partitions of Poland the walls fell into disrepair; in 1817 Emperor Franz I ordered their dismantling. A compromise was possible because Professor Feliks Radwański of Jagiellonian University persuaded the Senate of the Free City of Cracow to preserve key works, including the Florian Gate and its adjoining Barbican. What you move through today is a park of 21 hectares (52 acres) and about 4 km (2.5 miles) in length, built on that replaced defensive perimeter. It runs as a chain of thirty smaller gardens in varied styles, crossed by the Royal Road—Droga Królewska—between the northern suburb of Kleparz at the Florian Gate and Wawel Castle at the southern bend of the Vistula. …
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