Sulejów Landscape Park (''Sulejowski Park Krajobrazowy'') is a
protected area (
Landscape Park) in 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 ...
, established in 1994 and covering an area of . It takes its name from the town of
Sulejów.
The Park lies within
Łódź Voivodeship
Łódź Voivodeship (also known as Lodz Province, or by its Polish name ''Województwo łódzkie'' ) is a province- voivodeship in central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Łódź Voivodeship (1975–1999) and the Sier ...
: in
Opoczno County
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Opoczno County ( pl, powiat opoczyński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, south-east Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government re ...
(
Gmina Mniszków),
Piotrków County
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Piotrków County ( pl, powiat piotrkowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government ref ...
(
Gmina Aleksandrów,
Gmina Ręczno,
Gmina Sulejów,
Gmina Wolbórz
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Gmina Wolbórz is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the town of Wolbórz, which lies approximately north-east of Piotrków Trybunalski and south-east ...
) and
Tomaszów Mazowiecki County Tomaszów may refer to the following places in Poland:
* Tomaszów Bolesławiecki, village in Lower Silesian Voivodeship
* Tomaszów, Lublin Voivodeship, village in Puławy County
* Tomaszów Lubelski County, county in Lublin Voivodeship
** Tomasz ...
(
Gmina Tomaszów Mazowiecki).
Sulejów Landscape Park protects forests near
Pilica river. In
Niebieskie Źródła Nature Reserve in the town of
Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (, yi, טאָמעשעוו or ''Tomashuv'') is a city in central Poland with 60,529 inhabitants (2021). The fourth most populous city in the Łódź Voivodeship and the second with free public transport. In Tomaszów Mazowi ...
there is a unique natural
karst spring
A karst spring or karstic spring is a spring (outflow of groundwater) that is part of a karst hydrological system.
Description
Because of their often conical or inverted bowl shape, karst springs are also known in German-speaking lands as a ''T ...
of water containing calcium salts. The origin of the name of the reserve Niebieskie Źródła, that means Blue Springs, comes from the fact that red waves are absorbed by water and only blue and green are reflected from the bottom of the spring, giving that atypical colour.
References
Landscape parks in Poland
Parks in Łódź Voivodeship
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