Błonia Park
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Błonia Park is a historic city park, meadow with an area of 48 hectares, located in the former quarter Półwsie Zwierzynieckie, of 700 meters west of the Old Town of Kraków, Poland.
The history of the park began in 1162, when a wealthy nobleman Jaksa z Miechowa donated the land between Zwierzyniec and Łobzów to Norbertine Nuns. His intention was to receive a blessing prior to his pilgrimage to the Holy Land. For the next two centuries the meadow belonged to nuns, who in 1366 exchanged it with the city's authorities for a manor at Floriańska Street. The meadow was used by peasants from neighboring villages to graze their cattle.
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