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Planty Park

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Planty Park
Zygmunt Put · CC BY-SA 4.0

Once Kraków no longer needed defensive walls, the city tore them down in the 1820s and turned the moat into a continuous park — a fashionable move at the time.

A flat, shaded loop of eight linked gardens that circles the entire Old Town — about an hour at a slow pace, with the Barbican and St. Florian's Gate as the obvious break point. Beautiful but undemanding, with benches every fifty metres. Good in the early evening when the light catches the city walls.