Park na Zdrowiu
Historic site · Łódź
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Park na Zdrowiu, officially Park im. Józefa Piłsudskiego, is the largest park in Łódź, laid out between 1924 and 1939 on former municipal forest land. Nearly 300,000 trees had gone into the ground by 1928, and the 1930s added a zoo, a stadium, a Jordan garden and a parachute tower. It reached its largest extent, 237 hectares including the Botanical Garden and Zoo, in 1948.
The park grew over what had been the city's own forest, reduced from 400 hectares to just 115 during the First World War before landscaping began in the 1920s. It was first named Park Ludowy, the People's Park, before being rededicated to Marshal Józef Piłsudski. Stefan Rogowicz settled the park's final layout in the 1930s, after earlier plans by Edward Ciszkiewicz and the Zajkowski brothers. From 1974 to 2016 the grounds held their own amusement park, whose Jet Star roller coaster climbed 16 metres and ran at 96 km/h, alongside two carousels brought from Vienna; nothing of it remains today.
What you see
Ponds cascade down the Łódka river valley through the park, crossed by footbridges, beneath an avenue of old lime trees along Konstantynowska street.
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Park — a listed immovable monument in poland.