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 »
Location: Zakopane is situated in southern Poland, about 100 km to the... more »
Zakopane (pronounced: ]) is a town in southern Poland with approximately... more »
Morskie Oko is arguably the most beautiful of the Tatra lakes, and it... more »
Zakopane is a small tourist town at an entrance to the Tatra Mountains National Park. The town... more »