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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. Perfect for the grandparents who want a walk that's beautiful but undemanding, with benches every fifty metres. Good in the early evening when the light catches the city walls.