EN
Up to now, rural settlements in the voivodeship of the Polish capital have not been protected. Despite the fact that several studies on the protection of folk architecture appeared in the 1970s and 1980s, its resources had not been examined in a wider context of the protection of entire villages. Only projects preceding the organisation of the Ethnographic Park in Granica near Kampinos took into consideration the typology of the villages of this forest area which it was planned to copy in a future skansen. At present, the centre of the gravity of conservation undertakings has shifted from the protection of particular objects to rural complexes. Conservators face the necessity of protecting and retaining the most valuable and, simultaneously, representative villages of the voivodeship, which originated in various historical periods and are amassed in two complexes located in the environs of the Kampinos Forest. Each year brings irreversible changes in appearance — not only are traditional cottages succumbing to devastation but the same holds true for the system of situating the lots within concrete village configurations. In order to prevent further devastation of the villages it is necessary to prepare detailed conservation directives whose premises should include a willingness to preserve for future generations the former character of the Mazovian village.