Landscape Parks of Lublin Region

The park is located within the communes of Urszulin and Stary Brus in the Poviat of Włodawa and the commune of Sosnowica in the Poviat of Parczew. It constitutes a part of the buffer zone of the Poleski National Park. The beautiful scenery of the park features a mosaic of fields, meadows, marshes and forests, intersected by three rivers: the Włodawka, the Piwonia and the Bobryk. Wytyckie Lake and ponds in Stary Brus are an important part of the ecosystem. There are numerous species of birds in the park, among them cranes, red-necked and black-necked grebes, greylag geese and mute swans. ...

The park boasts the greatest collection of 18-million-year-old fossilised trees in Europe. The Carpathian beech is quite common in this area and forms large woods e.g. near Hrebenne. There are also many multicultural traits and historic monuments such as Orthodox churches (e.g. a wooden church in Hrebenne), and World War II fortifications called the Molotov Line. ...

The park covers the picturesque area of the Grabowieckie Divide – one of the most interesting mesoregions in the east of Poland. The landscape features picturesque undulating fields with hills rising up to 311m AMSL. The hills are separated by river valleys of the Wieprz, the Wojsławka and the Wolica. The park features many rare species of steppe and heliophilic plants listed in the Polish Red Book of Plants, e.g. the dwarf cherry (Prunus fruticosa), French rose (Rosa gallica) and the stool iris (Iris aphylla). ...

The park stretches over parts of the communes of Włodawa, Hańsk and Wola Uhruska in the Włodawa Poviat. The characteristic features of the park are vast lowlands covered with thick woods, peat-bogs, marshes and little forest lakes. Among interesting plant species there are the downy willow (Salix lapponum), the swamp willow (Salix myrtilloides) and the shrub birch (Betula humilis). The park is a natural habitat and a refuge of a very rare and endangered species - the European pond turtle. ...

The park covers the areas located within the communes of Dubienka and Białopole in the Poviat of Chełm and the communes of Horodło and Hrubieszów in the Poviat of Hrubieszów . The predominant landscape is flat with occasional hillocks partially overgrown with pine forests. The most interesting part of the park is the valley of the Bug River with its old riverbeds, meanders and riparian forests. The park is a refuge of the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis), which has its nesting sites here. Other rare species of birds include the black woodpecker, the red-breasted flycatcher and th ...

The park boasts a scenic network of loessial ravines located in the eastern part of Western Roztocze. The most amazing sites can be seen in the 'Piekiełko' beauty spot situated between Szczebrzeszyn and Wywłoczka, and in the ‘Las Cetnar’ Forest near the village of Kawęczynek. Carpathian beech forests and fir woods are predominant in the area.  ...

The natural, historic, cultural and tourist assets given special protection in this park include the scenic north-west part of the Urzędowskie Heights and the stretch of the Małopolski Gorge of the Vistula River between Piotrawin and Józefów. The area has a much diversified lay of the land with loessial ravines and steep escarpments of the valley of the Vistula River. The landscape features orchards and fields with fruit plantations as well as forests with old-growth woods (which cover 40% of the protected area). Historic sights worth seeing include a 15th-century church in Piotrawin and a ...