Rose Avenue

Avenue of the Roses is one of the streets of Nowa Huta, leading from the Central Square named after Ronald Reagan in the northern direction. Cars are allowed in the area around the Square, but a large section of the Avenue is a pedestrian zone where you can take a walk around this particular district of Krakow.

The Avenue has been planted with roses since the beginning, but the greatest importance to floral decoration was tied in the 1960s and 1970s. In the pictures from that period you can see the belts densely planted with flowers in full bloom. Today, the rose flower beds do not look so impressive anymore.

In 1973 a monument to Włodzimierz Lenin was built in the southern part of the Avenue. Since then, it has become a place of public celebrations. Unknown perpetrators, dissatisfied with the presence of the monument, laid explosives in order to demolish it. The explosion only damaged the heel of the leader of the October Revolution. In total, the monument disappeared only in 1989.