The article provides an overview of historic parks and gardens in Poland, including a percentage breakdown of particular categories of site, as determined from data held by the National Heritage Board of Poland. The most common reasons for the degradation of these heritage properties are identified as arising from the existing legal situation, a lack of social awareness regarding their value, lack of good models of conservation work in historic parks in Poland, underfunding of this group of sites, and problems associated with the protection of landscape contexts.
The values which dictate whether a historic park is listed as a heritage site, and which justify the need for statutory protection, are its historical, artistic and scientific values. The lack of public understanding and respect for these values, and the failure to perceive historic parks as works of garden art, and not merely as biologically active areas used primarily as recreation sites, poses many serious threats to this group of heritage sites.
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