Jordan Park (Park Jordana) is a large public park on the western edge of the Old Town, between the Planty and the Błonia meadows. Named after Henryk Jordan, the 19th-century physician and park reformer who designed it as one of Poland's first public parks for children and recreation, it remains a popular green space for families, joggers, and anyone wanting to escape the Old Town crowds.
The park is pleasant rather than spectacular, but it connects usefully to the Błonia — a vast flat meadow adjacent to it that is the closest thing Krakow has to a city park on the London or New York scale. The Błonia (meaning "meadows") is used for major public events, including the vast open-air Masses that Pope John Paul II celebrated here on his visits to his home city — an audience of over a million attended in 1979. Enclosed by the park on three sides, the meadow has an open, airy quality unusual in a densely built European city. The Art Nouveau National Museum on Aleja 3 Maja borders the park to the north.