A great place for a Sunday stroll - lovely, well-kept alleys, wonderful plants, peace and quiet.
05.05.2014Adam Mickiewicz Park - a park in Oliwa with an area of almost 10 hectares on the Oliwa Stream. The beginning of today's park was a monastery garden established prCistercian testimony. The present park was created by the foundation of the last abbot of Oliwa - Jacek Rybinski; its contractor was Kazimierz Dębinski. The project was the work of gardener Hentschl, drawing inspiration from the garden arrangements of the famous André Le Nôtre. The southern part of the park, as well as the palace located here (now a Division of Contemporary Art of the National Museum in Gdansk) is maintained in the style of French Rococo, while the northern part, in the style of English gardens. In 1945, at the end of the war, the park was largely devastated. In 1956, the park in Oliwa was named after Adam Mickiewicz. The area of the park also includes the (established after the war) Botanical Garden in Oliva and the Abbey Granary (Ethnography Branch of the National Museum in Gdansk).
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