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The Górale people ("highlanders"), a group of indigenous people with a distinctive traditional culture, are of the High Tatras and other mountain ranges and valleys in the Tatra Mountains region. Ludwig Greiner identified Gerlachovský štít (Gerlachovský Peak) (2,665 metres (8,743 ft)) as the highest summit of the Tatra Mountains , and the ...
On 19 November 2004, large parts of the forests in the southern Slovak part of the High Tatras were damaged by a strong wind storm. [12] Three million cubic metres (1,864 square miles) of trees were uprooted, two people died, and several villages were totally cut off.
A Goral with bagpipes from the region of Podhale in Poland. The Gorals (Polish: Górale; Goral ethnolect: Górole; Slovak: Gorali; Cieszyn Silesian: Gorole), also anglicized as the Highlanders (in Poland, as the Polish Highlanders, a subethnic group of the Polish nation) with historical origins in the Vlach ethnic group (the medieval exonym for Romanians) [1] [2] [3] are an ethnographic group ...
The High Tatras offer excellent opportunities for climbing. Świnica, here as seen from Kościelec, is the highest peak within the city limits, at 2,301 m (7,549 ft). There is a network of well-marked hiking trails in the Tatras and according to the national park regulations the hikers must stick to them.
The town of Vysoké Tatry is special in many aspects. It is not a true town, but a conglomerate of separate and different settlements (originally separate villages), whose only common feature is that they are the main tourist resorts in the Slovak High Tatras, while being connected through a common railway network (the Tatra Railway).
The Tatra National Park protects the Slovak areas of the High Tatras mountain range in the Eastern Tatras (Východné Tatry) ranges, and areas of the Western Tatras (Západné Tatry) ranges. [1] The west part of the Tatra National Park is situated in the Žilina Region and the east part in the Prešov Region.
Outdoor enthusiasts and those with a head for heights may well be familiar with the snow-capped peaks of the High Tatras, the highest range in the Carpathian Mountains. With 26 peaks over 2,500m ...
The High Tatras — a mountain range in the Eastern Tatras ranges of the Tatra Mountains. Located in Lesser Poland Voivodeship of southern Poland , and Žilina Region of northern Slovakia . Part of the Western Carpathians mountain system, having the highest peaks of the Tatra Mountains.