Żerków-Czeszewo Landscape Park (''Żerkowsko-Czeszewski Park Krajobrazowy'') is a

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

( Landscape Park) in west-central

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. The Park lies within

Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship ( ) is a Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. The province is named after the region called Greater Poland (''Wielkopolska'' ). The modern province includes most of this historic re ...

. The area of the park is 15,794.84 ha.

Cultural values

On the territory of Zerkowsko-Czeszewo Landscape Park there is a palace in Smielow from the end of the 18th century, where Adam Mickiewicz stayed in the summer of 1831 and where there is a museum named after him, established in 1975. One of the most valuable monuments is also the built 15th-century Gothic church in the village of Debno. On the northern edge of the Park is the 19th-century neo-Renaissance Mielżyński Palace in Miloslaw with its extensive preserved parkland.

References

Landscape parks in Poland Parks in Greater Poland Voivodeship {{Poland-protected-area-stub