Pavilion of the Okocim Breweries, Polana Lea in Las Wolski
Jan Ogłódek
Las Wolski
1936
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This charming, light pavilion with a flat, virtually floating roof above the terrace, supported on very slender columns, has a more organic base of local stone. It is spectacularly situated at the Lea Clearing in a forest near the zoological garden. It was meant as a place of recreation for those who were visiting the nearby Piłsudski Mound at the Sowiniec hill. The famed breweries from Brzesko, belonging to the polonised, once Austrian, family of Goetz – Okocimscy, won the license to sell ales and beers (even though not without a controversy). The pavilion, unfortunately desolate since 2008, is to be revitalised – the inhabitants and the council of the VII th district of Kraków – Zwierzyniec have been long acting towards that end.