The Nature Trail

Green signs. . It runs along the footbridge above the railway track. You can have a look at the rich greenery of the reservoir area, consisting mostly of riparian and alder plants with occasional plants preferring dry areas. The trail leads you down the steps in the embankment, symbolising the left face of the former Bastion I and then about 50 m along the former bastion moat to the counterguard*. It has a zigzag shape because it follows the line of the so-called “covered way” and around the counterguard* of Bastion I. At every bend of the path, where there was a small blockhouse*, there is a bench for visitors to take a look at the extensive foreground of the fortress, Great Pond and at the sky with storks and herons The 50-year-old trees around you are the remains of the so-called “Małpi Gaj”. The name is not old and reminds residents and visitors that there used to be a wild jungle of trees, bushes and creepers on the site. Now the greenery is tidy and backlit. It also reminds about “Engineers’ gardens” that used to stretch south-eastwards of Bastion I in the 1840s. Walk along the path towards Okopowa Street, along the New Lwowska Gate and across Partyzantów Street to Renaissance gardens in the Planty.