Potencjał geoturystyczny wybranych stanowisk Bielańsko-Tynieckiego Parku Krajobrazowego i jego otoczenia

In this paper, 13 selected sites situated in the Bielany and Tyniec Landscape Park and its surroundings within the Kraków Gate area are the subjects of comparative description, being examples of essential and significant geotouristic potential. Almost all of them show karstified Oxfordian Upper Jurassic limestones at the centre of Kraków at the foot of the Wawel Hill and in the districts of Tyniec, Zakrzówek, Podgórze, Wola Justowska, in the villages of Piekary and Jeziorzany. Among these sites is Smocza Jama Cave. Pleistocene loess in the Salwator district of Kraków is also described. All sites are various and picturesque. They are also important examples displaying products of very complex geological processes. The comparative evaluation of geotouristic potential of all the thirteen sites was made to meet tourists', educators' and investors' expectations and needs to increase their geotouristic significance. In general, interest in them as geotouristic abiotic nature objects has been growing regularly up to now. They have become very widely known in Poland and could become very popular worldwide, too.