Přírodní park Košíře-Motol, Nature park in Prague 5, Czech Republic.
Přírodní park Košíře-Motol is a 354-hectare nature park in Prague 5, the smallest in the city, declared in 1991. Its core is the Cibulka wooded park around the former Na Cibulce farmstead, with romantic buildings and trees whose trunks measure 300–500 cm. Three natural monuments lie within: Vidoule, Motol Ordovician and Motol Calvary.
The park was established in 1991 by Prague City Decree No. 3/1991 as a protected quiet area, one of a planned network of such zones in the city. In 1992, Act No. 114/92 Sb. created the legal category of nature parks, and Košíře-Motol was transferred into it. At 354 ha it is the smallest nature park in Prague.
The park's core is the Cibulka forest park around the former Na Cibulce estate, where a set of Romantic buildings stands among memorial trees with trunk girths of 300–500 cm. The Vidoule monument also preserves traces of former sandpits and sandstone quarries.
The grounds are open for exploration 24 hours daily and can be reached via tram lines 9 and 10, which stop at Poštovna and Hotel Golf stations. Walking through the different areas is straightforward and requires no special arrangements.
The Motol Ordovician exposure was created in the 1970s when a cutting was made for the Prague-Smíchov to Slaný railway line. It reveals Ordovician rock at the boundary between the Dobrotiv and Beroun stages, in two facies: shale and quartzite. Trilobites and hyoliths have been found here.
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