Editing Białystok (section)

===Parks and green spaces===
[[File:Białystok, Park Planty (4).jpg|thumb|left|alt=Planty park during the day|[[Planty Park (Białystok)|Planty Park]]]]
Around 32% of the city is occupied by parks, squares and forest preserves which creates a unique and healthy climate.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Białystok portal miejski. Parki, skwery i zieleńce
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}}[ .]</ref> The green spaces include:

[[Branicki Palace, Białystok|Branicki Palace]] ({{langx|pl|link=no|Pałac Branickich}}) is a historical edifice and {{convert|9.7|ha|abbr=on}} park in Białystok. It was developed on the site of an earlier building in the first half of the eighteenth century by [[Jan Klemens Branicki]], wealthy Polish [[Hetmans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Crown Hetman]] (highest military leader of Poland), into a [[house|residence]] suitable for a man whose ambition was to [[Royal elections in Poland|be elected king of Poland]].<ref>{{cite web |url =http://palac.amb.edu.pl/node/125 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20110716141555/http://palac.amb.edu.pl/node/125 |archive-date =2011-07-16|title = Podlaski Wersal Branickich |work =palac.amb.edu.pl|access-date = 2009-11-26|language=pl}}</ref> The [[Branicki Palace, Białystok|palace complex]] with [[Garden à la française|gardens]], [[Pavilion|pavillons]], [[Garden sculpture|sculptures]], outbuildings and other structures and the city with [[Church (building)|churches]], [[City and town halls|city hall]] and [[monastery]], all built almost at the same time according to French models was the reason why the city was known in the eighteenth century as [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]] of [[Podlachia]] ({{langx|pl|link=no|wersal podlaski}}).<ref>{{cite web
| title = Widok zespołu parkowo – pałacowego z "lotu ptaka"
| url = http://www.bialystok.pl/202-tereny-zielone/default.aspx
| access-date = 2011-04-15
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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110504144542/http://www.bialystok.pl/202-tereny-zielone/default.aspx
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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Zielony Białystok – Ogród Branickich
| url = http://www.bialystok.pl/819-park-branickich/default.aspx
| access-date = 2011-04-15
| language = pl
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110817194919/http://www.bialystok.pl/819-park-branickich/default.aspx
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}}</ref><ref name=zg>{{cite book|last=Gloger|first=Zygmunt|title=Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski|year=1900|location=Kraków|language=pl|page=209}}</ref>

[[Planty Park (Białystok)|Planty]] is a {{convert|14.94|ha|abbr=on}} park created between 1930 and 1938, under the auspices of the then voivode [[Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski]] in the areas adjacent to Branicki Palace.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nid.pl/UserFiles/File/Rejestr%20Zabytk%C3%B3w/rejestr%20zabytk%C3%B3w%20-%20stan%20na%2031%20grudnia%202010/PDL-rej.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204005926/http://www.nid.pl/UserFiles/File/Rejestr%20Zabytk%C3%B3w/rejestr%20zabytk%C3%B3w%20-%20stan%20na%2031%20grudnia%202010/PDL-rej.pdf | archive-date=2012-02-04|title=Rejestr zabytków województwa podlaskiego|date= 2011-03-25|language=pl}}</ref> The modernist composition of the park was designed by Stanislav Gralla.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Akcja Planty, czyli jak za dawnych lat
| date = 18 August 2006
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