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Botanical garden of the Krakow
university adjoins the 18th-century palace
that served as its first astronomic observatory.
Krakow's
Botanical Garden, the green oasis in the downtown.
Its
location at 27 Kopernika street, a ten minutes’ easy walk from the
very city center, is a best-kept secret of Krakow's traffic-weary
residents. Polish oldest Botanical Garden, established in 1779 as
one of Europe's first scientific institutions of this kind, is a
colorful island of superfluous nature amid the busy city.
Spring to
autumn the public can see here some 5,000 plant species, both exotic
and native, in the open air as well as greenhouses (the first great
palm house dates back to 1882). Yet only the 300-year-old
Jagiellonian Oak proves a sole relic of vast primeval forests
covering once the whole region. The adjacent Garden of Healing
Plants shows various herbs.
The
Botanical Garden adjoins a Renaissance palace rebuilt in 1792 to
serve as the Krakow university's Astronomic Observatory. It acquired
its present form after refurbishment in 1859.
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vast expanse of grassland in downtown Krakow, called Blonia,
is protected by law as the national heritage.
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