Park Janiny Porazińskiej, Warsaw

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.