Every historic garden having an artistic advantage of the works of art remains the certificate of the tendency of creative ages and regions. Also noticing this work in categories of the means of conveying the idea, philosophical attitudes and directions of the development seems justified to the mankind. In historical ages gardens, constituting the type of complementing highest aspiration of social elites, specific crowning their artistic initiatives, performed also a creating culture role, among others as centre of the learning and didacticss (Greece), whether instruments of spreading agricultural techniques (Cistercian monks).

At the end of the eighteenth century on the outskirts of the Rzeczypospolita was established the garden, founded by one of the most peculiar pairs of the era: Stanislaw Szczęsny Potocki, the richest of the Polish magnates and at the same the traitor – member of Targowica, and his wife Sophie Glavani, on the beginning of her career Istanbul prostitute, who went to the history as “the beautiful Bitinienne”. Their magnificent garden was designed by Ludwik Metzell and named Zofiówka. From that moment passed more than 200 years, during which the garden changed owners, functions, names, and even (three times) national affiliation. The values and fame as well as the determination of the people who took care for the establishment proved to be stronger than adversities. In 1995 Zofiówka was awarded with medal “Europa Nostra” by pan-European network composed of heritage associations and foundations, created for the safeguarding of Europe’s endangered historic monuments, sites and cultural landscapes.

The old gardens and parks are really the “identity of place nests” in contemporary structure of townscape and countryscape. There is even possible to say, that those, being destroyed and abounded landscape-architectural complexes became as the pearls in local and regional landscape systems. Their conservation, revitalization or reconstruction, being more and more frequent, had made them as a leader objects in landscape of towns and villages. Their superposition in landscape-visual relations, as well as, their inner compositions and even the scale of details have the real positive impact on large spatial planning-conservatory conditions also – on mentality and civil social opinion and activity of local societies.

The article is the subject of Bicmarckhütte industrial complex (now Batory) in Chorzow-Batory in Upper Silesia. It presents both the history of the development of the system, its composition, and above all the composed green areas. Based on an analysis of change and its current status has been determined her rank, both past and contemporary, for the development of the socio-cultural landscape of this industrial area.

Greenery, including this that is in a reference to the historical urban systems, within the industrial cities constitutes an unusually precious value. Preserved elements of flora bring considerable ecological benefits, they increase the landscape values of the surrounding and influence the improvement of quality of life of the inhabitants. The purpose of the article is to present the major diversification of the forms of green areas located within the historical housing estates, situated in Zabrze.

Gardens of Islam belong to the most sophisticated ones in the history of art of gardening. Universal beauty, sublime composition and symbolism make the heritage of Moorish gardens in Andalusia timeless. Objects preserved without major changes, as gardens of Alhambra, but also former Islamic gardens, influenced by subsequent periods and styles of Christian cultural, as gardens of Generalife and courtyards of former mosques, are today a great testimony to durability and capacity of Islamic art ideals, embodied in life on the visions of Eden Garden. Moorish gardens are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Genius loci of works of Moorish masters lasts in gardens of Andalusia often evoking nostalgic and sentimental echo of Arab history and culture. Presented under, the first part of work presents the most significant, created by Moorish artists garden foundations, in which many of original Islamic plans and garden elements were preserved.