The Eagles' Nests Landscape Park (Park Krajobrazowy Orlich Gniazd) is a protected area

Protected area

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 in south-western Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, and one of over a hundred Polish Landscape Parks. It was established in 1980, and covers much of the area of the Trail of the Eagles' Nests, marked as No. 1 on the official list of tourist trails.

The Park is shared between two voivodeships

Voivodeships of Poland

The voivodeship, or province, called in Polish województwo , has been a high-level administrative subdivision of Poland since the 14th century....

: Lesser Poland

Lesser Poland Voivodeship

Małopolska Voivodeship , or Lesser Poland Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, in southern Poland...

 and Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia...

 or more specifically its Częstochowa County

Czestochowa County

Częstochowa County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat is the city of Częstochowa, although the city...

 (Gmina Janów

Gmina Janów, Silesian Voivodeship

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, Gmina Olsztyn

Gmina Olsztyn

Gmina Olsztyn is a rural gmina in Częstochowa County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. Its seat is the village of Olsztyn, which lies approximately south-east of Częstochowa and north of the regional capital Katowice....

) and Zawiercie County

Zawiercie County

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 (Gmina Łazy, Gmina Ogrodzieniec

Gmina Ogrodzieniec

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).

The Park lies within the Polish Jura formation also known as the Polish Jurassic Highland or Kraków-Częstochowa Upland , stretching between the cities of Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

, Częstochowa

Czestochowa

Częstochowa is a city in south Poland on the Warta River with 240,027 inhabitants . It has been situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously the capital of Częstochowa Voivodeship...

 and Wieluń

Wielun

Wieluń is a city in central Poland with 24,347 inhabitants . Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship , it was previously in Sieradz Voivodeship .- History :...

. The Polish Jura is visited by roughly 400,000 visitors a year. Part of it belongs to the Ojców National Park

Ojców National Park

Ojców National Park is a national park in Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland, established in 1956. It takes its name from the village of Ojców, where it also has its headquarters....

, the smallest of Poland's twenty national park

National park

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s, ranking among the most attractive recreational areas in the country.