The importance of creating a cultural park within the historical center of Zamość. Good practices. The cultural park is not the Zamość Park

Zamość is a town of remarkable urban landscape and architecture. The first urban idea on the masterpiece of Italian-style fortification  from the late 16^th  century evolved gradually throughout centuries until 19^th century. The plan and examples of architectural pearls are stylistically homogenous. The fortifications underwent many transformations and 21^st century brought some outstanding projects for the reconstruction of substantial amount of fortress elements. The Zamość Park retained the green parts of fortifications which added to its undoubted picturesqueness. The Zamość unique and valuable urban layout and architectural splendor call for creating suitable preservation and clear rules of management. Such tools can be achieved by forming a cultural park – mentioned in the Act on the Protection and Care of Monuments as one of the ways of protection of urban and architectural monuments. The term should not be confused with a notion of a park as an arrangement, composition of greenery on a particular terrain.