Green Milanówek

Milanówek is the first garden town, which was created in 1899, and a city charter was given to it in 1951. Its development is connected with building in 1901 a stop of the railway from Warsaw to Vienna. In 1939 the population of Milanówek was 6500, and now it reaches almost 16000 citizens. What is interesting is that the biggest number of people living in this town was 40000 people. The area of Milanówek is 1352 ha. There are as many as 267 nature monuments, 13 glacial erratics and 251 trees among which dominates pedunculate oak. What is more, you can visit about 5 km of cycling tracks. When you’re there you can have a walk on 3 main walking paths which are: - Jedwabny Szlak (Silk Trail), it goes through the places connected to history of silk making in Milanówek. In this area there are still operating factories, which this town is famous for. - Wille Milanowskie (Mansions of Milanówek), this path goes along 31 most interesting historical buildings, most of which were created in the 20' and 30’ XX century. - Mały Londyn ( Little London), on this walking trail there are 47 places closely connected to the history of Milanówek. During WW2 it was a very important training, commanding and combat center. There are 6 parks in Milanówek. The most picturesque of them is Park Zielony Dołek. You can spend your free time in this place in every season. It’s possible to have a picnic, work out in an outdoor gym, play ping pong or chess, and in the winter go sledging. Coming back to the nature monuments, and I would like to remind you that there are 267, we need to highlight that the authorities of the town still take care of them and the plants have various beauty treatments. Although some monuments impose restrictions in using the properties, their owners happily help the authorities. The town for a long time has been fighting advertising chaos. Thanks to it Milanówek improves its atmosphere of a garden town.