Winter in the historic Park Pszczyński in Poland

 WINTER CAN BE BEAUTIFUL TOO

Park Pszczyński currently has 156 hectares and occupies the bottom of a shallow valley Pszczynka, once swampy and marshy,  a fragment of the slope on the north side of the valley.Castle Park covers an area  48 hectares. It was probably in the 2nd half. XVIII in., although in the sixteenth century here was a small vegetable garden on the west side of the castle and the zoo in the northwestern part of the current park. Created during the Baroque reconstruction residence, Paek referred to the multi assumptions of the great French architect André Le Notré'a, subordinated to the dominant building  of the palace. In the mid-nineteenth century began to transform the castle garden called  English Garden. Then they liquidated, among others, a main central avenue, replacing it with a vast glade, opening to a newly built Pszczynka joints on the river and hills in the northern part of the park.

 

Over time, it was transformed in the 2nd half. XIX. the park appeared all characteristic of this type of assumptions items: the vast open scenic, picturesque clusters of trees and shrubs, many backwaters and ponds with islands and arched bridges, open meadows and lonely, shady trees. The edges of ponds and canals planted trees "weep" with dangling just above the water, limbs and twigs. Complemented park were small buildings, most of which have survived to our times and that we visit during a walk around the park. Wander through the alleys of this attractive place worth watch the trees - there are numerous great and mighty oaks, chestnut, yew, distinguished by a simple, high trunk white pines, linden, ash, stately hornbeams, beeches and red elm, larch, spruce silvery birches, maples and plane trees, and willows and tulip. Among the many interesting shrubs should see the amazing specimens of rhododendron (rhododendron), beautifully blooming in late spring, and no less beautiful, but smaller