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Each country included in the Austro-Hungarian state had its patron saint, and such a patron of Galicia was St. Michael, Grand Duchy of Krakow – St. Stanisław, Lower Austria – St. Leopold, Upper Austria – St. Florian, Bukowiny – St. John of Suceava, Solnogod – St. Rupert and St. Joseph

In other words, it is a skimmer, a craftsman who produces belts and haberdashery, i.e. textiles used to decorate uniforms, liturgical vestments and upholstered furniture. The first piece of information about Krakow‘s pasamonki comes from 1365, when they agreed with saddlers from Grodzka Street that the latter ones made by themselves

There are six landscape parks in Krakow: Bielańsko – Tyniecki Landscape Park – its area is 5410 hectares. It includes: Krzemionki Zakrzowskie, the Sowiniec range, the Tynieckie Hills, the Vistula gorge between Tyniec and Piekary, the Skołczanka reserve, Maiden Rocks, Bielańskie Rocks. Dłubniański Landscape Park: Its area covers 6,970 hectares.

High on the right bank of the Vistula River there are limestone hills, the afforestation of which began in the interwar years. Beautiful walking paths and grottoes add charm to the park. According to legend, Master Twardowski had his sorcerer’s laboratory in one of the caves here. There are other

Behind the Nowa Huta , the remnants of the villages of Mogiła and the Vistula, there is a park called the Mogilski Forest. It covers 32 hectares, and in summer it is often visited by the inhabitants of Krakow.

Next to the former village of Łęg in Krakow, there is an oak and alder forest with an area of 20 hectares. On the one hand, it reaches the Vistula meadows and serves as a place for Sunday space ditches.

Located in Krakow at Aleja Jana Pawla II, between old Krakow and Nowa Huta. The construction of this park began in 1966. According to the original concepts, it was to be a green barrier with an area of 230 ha, isolating the city from the nuisance of the steelworks. Unfortunately,

Located in the vicinity of the Krakow railway station – Bonarka – currently a shopping mall. They were created in the proper Krzemionki thanks to afforestation. Today’s eye-catching forest complexes gradually turned into a public park.

It is surrounded by Szymanowskiego, Czarnowiejska and al. Mickiewicza street. Established in 1885 by the city councilor Stanisław Rehman, it covered 6 hectares. As a result of progressive development, it has decreased to its present borders and occupies 2/3 of the former area. Once upon a time, there were gardens

In Prądnik Biały district, around the former defensive palace of Kraków’s bishop Samuel Maciejowski, a Renaissance park was established in the 16th century with four ornamental plots, avenues, and lanes of linden, hornbeam, and elm trees. After the Swedish damage to the palace and park, a classicist manor house was