Park im.Wojciecha Bednarskiego w Podgórzu
Landscape park of limestone rock walls and shaded promenades built into a former medieval quarry.
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This guide to Park im. Wojciecha Bednarskiego in Kraków follows an 1884 one-man crusade: a local schoolteacher with no engineering training and no funds beyond his own wages decided to turn a working stone quarry above Podgórze into a green space for the district's children. You'll hear him drawing the plans himself, talking the town council into backing him, and pouring his own money into trees and paths while stonecutters kept blasting limestone out of the same hillside around him. It traces the years of arguing, planting and quarrying side by side before the gates finally opened.
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