Eight-hectare park in Koszalin, from 1887, with an amphitheatre, natural monuments and sculptures along the paths.
The Park by the Amphitheatre covers 8.2 ha between Piastowska, Jedności and Kościuszki streets in Koszalin. It is the second largest park in the town, with ancient old trees in the eastern part and several sculptures among the paths. It is entered in the heritage register.
On a moraine rise east of the bed of the Dzierżęcinka, in the Middle Ages there were the vineyards of the Cistercian nuns; later it was wasteland between the town park and the Old Cemetery. After 1840 the area was tidied up, and around 1887 paths were laid out and plantings were made. In the 1920s a sports shooting range stood here, closed down in the early 1970s, and at that time the former park buildings were also demolished. In their place in 1973 the amphitheatre was built, from which the park took its name. It has had its present area and character since 1976.
In the eastern part grow oaks, hornbeams, beeches, maples, ashes and limes aged from 60 to 120 years. Many trees are natural monuments: pedunculate oaks with circumferences of 300, 319, 360, 390 and 411 cm, beeches with circumferences of 329 and 335 cm, and a European ash with a circumference above 280 cm. In the park there are 72 species of trees and shrubs, among the rarer ones the Japanese cedar, Lawson's cypress and Maximowicz's poplar.
In front of the amphitheatre, since 1982, stands the monument "Muzykanci" (Musicians) carved by Ryszard Moroz. In the park there are also "Dziewczyna z mangustą" (Girl with a Mongoose), "Kobieta ze Wzniesionymi Rękami" (Woman with Raised Arms) and "Dwie Postacie" (Two Figures) by Melchior Zapolnik, and "Kobieta z lirą" (Woman with a Lyre) and "Gnom" (Gnome) by Zbigniew Szulc. An erratic boulder with a plaque commemorates General Kazimierz Pułaski. In the neighbourhood lies Kościuszko Park.
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