Landscape Parks
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- Detailed InformationZwińRozwiń
- Object type:
- Landscape parks
- County:
- Kielce
- Community:
- Kielce
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- Other
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- Surrounding AccommodationZwińRozwiń
For centuries a small village of Chałupki near Morawica provided extensive surroundings with clay ware, such as dishes and pots. The process lasted from the prehistorical times until the end of the 20th century.
- Chałupki
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The park covers the Jeleniowskie range and the river valleys of Dobruchna and Pokrzywianka; its total surface area is 11,350 acres. Mountain forests and mixed mountain forests with predominance of Carpathian beech stands occupy nearly two thirds of the whole park"s territory.
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The main exhibition of the Museum of Kielecka Village is the Ethnographic Park in Tokarnia, which is located on the E77 route leading from Kielce to Cracow. In the picturesquely located in the Czarna Nida river bend over 70-hectare area...
- Tokarnia
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The park encloses the Orłowińskie, Ociesęckie and Cisowskie ranges as well as the Bardziańskie Hills, occupying the total area of 51 thousand acres. The nature is its greatest attraction, especially its vegetation mantle and forests; naturalists found here the majority of lowland habitats, from dry coniferous forest to alder carr.
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The Świętokrzyski National Park was established in 1950 and it encompasses: the highest range of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains- Łysogóry with the summits of Łysica (612 m above sea level), Agata (608 m above sea level) and Łysa Góra (595 m above sea level), the eastern part of Klonowskie Range and a part of Pokrzywiańskie Range (together with Chełmowa Góra).
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It"s the most recently established landscape park (51,000 acres) located between Łośna and Bobrza Rivers in the south-western part of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. o wonder the Chęciński-Kielecki Landscape Park is known as the paradise for geologists.
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The elongated massif of Mt Miedzianka has been placed under protection. It constitutes the north-westernmost located elevation of the Ch ęciny range of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. The plateau has three summits that are connected by a picturesque rocky ridge.
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The Świętokrzyski region is a real geological trove, or an open book from which we can learn a lot about the history of our planet. The Świętokrzyskie Mountains occupy the central part of the region; although not the highest and not the biggest in Poland, they enchant visitors with the diversity of their geological structure.
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One of the biggest attraction of the monastery on the Święty Krzyż Mountain is the crypt, in which the human remains in the glass coffins can be seen. It is the place of eternal rest for the Oleśnickis chapel"s founder – Mikołaj Oleśnicki.
- Święty Krzyż
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Description
photo Anna DrzewieckaThe Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship is exceptionally rich in protected areas. Apart from the Świętokrzyski National Park, there are as many as eight Landscape Parks. Suchedniowsko- Oblęgorki Landscape Park, where unique natural reserves, among which Dalejów and Świnia Góra reservations and famous Bartek Oak deserve a special attention, are protected. In addition to this, the Park has been established to protect cultural facilities- the remains of the Old-Polish Industrial Region. Sieradowicki Landscape Park, which encompasses an area of great hisorical qualities, whose forests gave shelter to insurgent troops of 1863 and the Second World War guerillas e.g. of the biggest Home Army guerilla unit on Kielecka Land under legendary major Jan Piwnik “Ponury”’s command. Cisowsko-Orłowiński Landscape Park, which stands out due to special natural qualities, among which the marsh plants, which occur on its territory and are protected in two peat-bog nature reverves (“Białe Ługi” and “Słopiec”), deserve a special attention. Jeleniowski Landscape Park with absolutely mountainous character, in which boulder fields (sandstone quartzite debris) are the major natural curiosity. Chęcińsko-Kielecki Landscape Park is extremely interesting. Due to its geological qualities it is called a geological museum in the open air. On the southern territories of the voivodeship three Landscape Parks have been enclosed in Ponidzie Landscape Parks and these are: Nadnidziański Landscape Park, which was established to protect unique to Poland gypsum crystals of the big crystal shape. The Nida river valley with numerous meanders and old river beds and water and marsh fowl sanctuary is the characteristic element in the park landscape. In addition to this, the park stands out due to the accumulation of many relics of material culture. This is the place where the first Vistulan country with the centre of power in Wiślica was established. Szaniecki Landscape Park protects numerous original enclaves of valuable landscape with picturesque calcareous and gypsum hills and stenothermic communities of xerothermic plants, marsh plants and halophytes. Gypsums of the big crystal shape are the most precious element of the park inanimate nature. Kozubowski Landscape Park is an area with outstanding landscape, natural and esthetic qualities. It is characterised by the varied lie of the land and vast wooded areas. Very interesting xerothermic flora occurs there.
The Complex of Świętokrzyski and Nadnidziański Landscape Parks
ul. Łódzka 244
25-655 Kielce
phone: +48 41 345 58 80; 345 51 91
www.pk.kielce.pl
Information can be obtained in The Regional Center of Tourist Information
ul. Sienkiewicza 29
25-007 Kielce
phone: +48 41 348 00 60
e-mail: informacja@swietokrzyskie.travel