Lednica Landscape Park
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Lednica Landscape Park (''Lednicki Park Krajobrazowy'') is a protected area ( Landscape Park) in west-central
Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. The Park lies within
Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo wielkopolskie; ), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province, or Greater Poland Province, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 ...
, north of
Gniezno Gniezno (; german: Gnesen; la, Gnesna) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań. Its population in 2021 was 66,769, making it the sixth-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. One of the Piast dynasty's chief cities, ...
, in the region of Lednica lake, the site of annual
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religious youth gatherings. The landscape of the park, shaped by the last glaciation, consists of ground moraine plains with hills of terminal moraine and long glacial gutters filled with lakes, covering about 7% of the protected area. Less than 10% of the park consists of forests, mainly pine forests with an admixture of spruce and deciduous species.


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