Tenczynek Landscape Park


Tenczynek Landscape Park is a protected area in southern Poland, established in 1981, and covering an area of.
The Park lies within Lesser Poland Voivodeship: in Chrzanów County and Kraków County. It takes its name from the village of Tenczynek in Gmina Krzeszowice. Within the Landscape Park are five nature reserves.
About 35% of the park's area is covered by forests. Carpathian beech forests, mixed pine and oak forests, alder riparian forests and broadleaved forests with a predominance of beech, oak and sycamore grow here. Pine forests dominate in the area of the Dulowska Primeval Forest.
Protected plant species can be found here: rolling hen-and-chicks, monkshood, ivy, martagon lily, sweet woodruff, goat's beard, round-leaved sundew, dwarf periwinkle and giant horsetail; and animals: moose, Eurasian sparrowhawk, barn owl, common buzzard, northern lapwing, corn crake and European pond turtle.

Tenczyn Castle

Tenczynek Landscape Park is the location of a medieval Tenczyn Castle built around 1570 as a seat of the powerful Tęczyński family. The castle fell into ruin during the Deluge in mid-17th century, after being pillaged and burned by Swedish-Brandenburgian forces looking for the Polish Crown Jewels and the rumored treasures of the Tęczyński family.