Zakopane, Poland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

South of Nowy Targ, the road continues another 20km along the course of the Bialy Dunajec before reaching the edges of ZAKOPANE , a major mountain resort, crowded with visitors throughout its summer hiking and winter skiing seasons. It has been an established attraction for Poles since the 1870s, when the purity of the mountain air began to attract the attention of doctors and their consumptive city patients. Within a few years, this inaccessible mountain village of sheep farmers was transformed, as the medics were followed by Kraków artists and intellectuals, who established a fashionable colony in the … more »