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Fortress foreground had to be open. Fortunately, it has been preserved like this. In spite of ambitious plans made in the 1950s
A view of the foreground of the bastion no 7 after the liquidation of the fortress – archival photo from the beginning of 20th century .
to create luxuriant gardens with a dense network of paths, it has been possible to go Glacis, also known as esplanade, is a huge engineering work in which the foreground of a fortress was shaped in such a way that it did not contain any places where the charging enemy could hide. To determine the slopes, twists and ranges of these areas would be a difficult geometric task even today; in the past such tasks were successfully dealt with without computers. Shaping this huge earth sculpture in the ground was even more difficult. It would be impossible for reconstruct it fully today as part of the glacis is covered with buildings. Its appearance is partly reflected by the open space of common land called ”Zamojskie Pola Marsowe” and a green embankment whereas a layout of paths reflects twists of plains. back to the original idea of a huge open space, on one side limited by a magnificent view of the town and on the other by the embankment you are standing on. It resembles a low firing embankment made at the end of a glacis. No trace of the original structure is left; a housing estate has been built on it. The one you are standing on now performs three functions: that of an “artificial horizon”, an artificial curtain which optically removes the contemporary buildings from the common land, that of a scenic promenade and that of a stand – a scenic embankment used as a stage for shows and military presentations of historical groups. It is called “Promenada UNESCO” to commemorate entering the town on the World Cultural Heritage List.

  • Northern front of the fortress , and its glacis on the plan which was made by lieutenant Berezowski in 1847.

  • A view of the foreground of the bastion no 7 after the liquidation of the fortress – archival photo from the beginning of 20th century ..

  • The project of Gerard Ciołek from 1950 . the change of the glacis and the external cannons of the fortress into big and ornamental garden .. It would have been very picturesque but it will close the view from , and on the city from the northern side . From the project there were realized only small fragments near the Streets of Piłsudski and Partyzantów

    It would have been very picturesque but it will close the view from , and on the city from the northern side . From the project there were realized only small fragments near the Streets of Piłsudski and Partyzantów

  • Another approach to the design of the same area. Emphasize the outline of the works of defense and open spaces - in the conception of the Cracow University of Technology.. Results you can rate for your own .

    Results you can rate for your own .

  • ,,Zamojskie Pola Marsowe ‘’ – open foreground in the opposite of the northern front of the Fortress – in the visualization which was made by Bartłomiej Mleczko in 2009 .