Park Janiny Porazińskiej, Warszawa

Park Janiny Porazińskiej is an urban park in Warsaw’s Solec neighbourhood, named for children’s writer Janina Porazińska. Its paths carry titles from her books, chosen by local pupils. Sculptures of her characters and an audiobook-playing bench make the park a literary corner of the city.

This is Park Janiny Porazińskiej, an urban park in Warsaw. It lies in Solec, within the downtown part of the city. The park bears the name of Janina Porazińska, a writer whose work was created for young readers.

It opened on the twenty-ninth of September, twenty eleven. As you move along the paths, notice that their names come from Porazińska’s book titles; local schoolchildren chose them. That makes the layout itself a quiet tribute to reading, with each named route carrying a fragment of her imaginary world.

The literary theme continues in sculptures of characters from Psotki i Śmieszki and Kichuś majstra Lepigliny. There is also a bench that plays audiobook recordings of three Porazińska books. This is a park shaped around stories rather than grand ceremony. Its paths, figures, and listening bench turn an everyday patch of Warsaw into a small landscape of children’s literature, made for wandering, remembering, and letting a book become part of the city.