Your personal bike guide
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Your personal bike guide
In a green corner of the Kampinos Forest called the “On mines” forest district located at the corner of the Southern Forest Trail from Żelazowa Wola to Dziekanów Leśny and the yellow trail leading towards Wólka Węglowa there is a monument commemorating professor Witold Plapis. It has a form characteristic for numerous places of remembrance located in the forest – it is a boulder with an inscription plaque, surrounded by a low, wooden fence. Professor Plapis was an architect volunteering in the Office for the Capital’s Reconstruction after the war, as well as the founder and the director Scientific Department of Landscape Architecture of the Institute of Urban design and Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. Because of his vast knowledge of landscape design he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Kampinos National Park. He was one of the authors of the idea of establishing the so-called “Warsaw Green Ring”. The government of the Polish People’s Republic awarded him with the highest national decoration (Order of Polonia Restituta and Golden Cross of Merit). He was buried in Powązki. Considering the professor’s interests it is reasonable to look around – the area is surrounded by a rare type of wetland forest. In periods when groundwater level is high the local area becomes a picturesque forest swamp. The levee with today’s Southern (green) Trail is the only way through the wetland. During the Second World War it was a German minefield – hence the district’s name. Black storks and cranes have their nests here.
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