Planty
Ring-shaped park of gardens tracing the exact footprint of demolished medieval city walls.
This guide to Planty in Kraków opens in 1817, when a mathematics professor named Feliks Radwański stood before the Senate of Kraków's newly declared Free City, trying to save something from the demolition of the city's medieval walls that an Austrian emperor had ordered. It follows what he managed to save, one gate and its round barbican, and the far stranger proposal he made next: ringing the entire Old Town in gardens where the walls and moat had been. You'll hear about Florian Straszewski, the wealthy backer whose fortune carried the gardens forward. Walk the gently curving paths and you're tracing the footprint of the vanished fortifications underfoot.
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