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For a more extended bout of countryside, you could take an hour's walk west from the Kosciuszko mound to the wonderful stretch of woodland known as Las Wolski , a popular area for picnics and day outings with city residents. There's a small zoological gardens and hearty restaurant at the centre. A little further on through the woods, 500m to the north, stands another mound, raised in the late 1930s, this one erected, in emulation of Kosciuszko's, to the interwar era national leader Jozef Pilsudski (1867-1935). The mound was wilfully neglected during the postwar era by communist authorities uncomfortable with the man's political legacy, and in 1953 the granite memorial plaque placed on the summit was summarily removed using a tank. Calls for the mound's rehabilitation gathered pace during the 1980s, and in 1990 an ambitious restoration project received official support. After a few years of rebuilding work the mound is now in much better shape, a newly restored granite memorial included. As with its neighbour eastwards it affords some fine views over the city. Bus #134 runs from the city centre to the mound (40min).
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