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Barania Góra: where the Vistula really begins Beskidy i Jura
Barania Góra: where the Vistula really begins
The Vistula has no single source, only three streams and two definitions of the beginning of a river. What actually rises on Barania Góra, where the Biała and Czarna Wisełka and the Malinka join, how the nature reserves protect them, and where the mountain hut at Przysłop came from.
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The Beskids with a child: sledge runs, rope parks and places where children are never bored Beskidy i Jura
The Beskids with a child: sledge runs, rope parks and places where children are never bored
Summer sledge runs, rope parks with a course for three-year-olds, animal enclosures and a few places under a roof for poorer weather. An overview of Beskid ideas for families with children, from Ustroń to Żywiec.
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Bobolice and Mirów: two castles, two brothers and a tale of treasure in a tunnel Beskidy i Jura
Bobolice and Mirów: two castles, two brothers and a tale of treasure in a tunnel
The castles in Bobolice and Mirów stand on Jurassic rocks in the municipality of Niegowa. One was rebuilt in 2001-2011, the other remains a ruin. They are linked by a trail and by the tale of two brothers and a treasure in a tunnel.
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Góra Zborów: Rocks, the Witches' Legend and a Cave for Visitors Beskidy i Jura
Góra Zborów: Rocks, the Witches' Legend and a Cave for Visitors
Limestone outcrops, an inanimate nature reserve and the only cave open to visitors in the northern Jura. Where the name Góra Zborów comes from, how the given heights and cave dimensions differ, and how the wartime quarry can be recognised in Jaskinia Głęboka.
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Żywiec Lake and Międzybrodzie Lake: villages under water and the dams on the Soła Beskidy i Jura
Żywiec Lake and Międzybrodzie Lake: villages under water and the dams on the Soła
Żywiec Lake flooded Stary Żywiec and neighbouring villages, while Międzybrodzie Lake was created before the war at the foot of Mount Żar. The history of the dams on the Soła is one of the flood of 1958, resettlement, relocated graves and a power station hidden inside a mountain.
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Ogrodzieniec Castle: from the Włodek Sulimczyk family to ruins the camera loves Beskidy i Jura
Ogrodzieniec Castle: from the Włodek Sulimczyk family to ruins the camera loves
The ruins in Podzamcze stand on the highest hill of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Over the centuries they belonged to the Włodeks, Boners, Firlejs and Warszyckis, and today they are one of the most frequently used film sets in the region.
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Olsztyn near Częstochowa: Casimir the Great's castle, sieges and Neanderthals in the cave Beskidy i Jura
Olsztyn near Częstochowa: Casimir the Great's castle, sieges and Neanderthals in the cave
The ruins on a Jura rock have behind them the siege of 1587, the destruction of the Deluge and demolition by local peasants. In the cave below the castle, archaeologists found more than 200 Neanderthal tools in 2019.
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Pilica Castle: six bastions, Wiśniowiecka's dowry and a dispute over ownership Beskidy i Jura
Pilica Castle: six bastions, Wiśniowiecka's dowry and a dispute over ownership
A palace from the early 17th century within a ring of ramparts with six bastions, which passed from hand to hand through the Padniewski, Zbaraski, Warszycki and Sobieski families. After 1989 the castle became the subject of a court dispute over ownership that halted its reconstruction.
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Pilsko and Korbielów: the border ridge, the reserves and the mountain meadows Beskidy i Jura
Pilsko and Korbielów: the border ridge, the reserves and the mountain meadows
Pilsko is a massif on the Polish-Slovak border, with its main summit on the Slovak side and Polish slopes in Korbielów. How the watershed works here, what the reserve protects, what distinguishes the meadows and where the dispute over skiing near the summit came from.
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Nature Reserves of the Northern Jura and Surroundings: Rocks, Beech Woods and Yews in One Walking Order Beskidy i Jura
Nature Reserves of the Northern Jura and Surroundings: Rocks, Beech Woods and Yews in One Walking Order
Nine reserves in the Silesian Voivodeship: from Parkowe near Złoty Potok, through Bogdaniec, Bukowa Kępa and Sokole Góry, to the yews in Żarki and three reserves north of the Jura. A walking order by location, with what is and is not allowed in a reserve.
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Nature Reserves of the Beskids: Barania Góra, Pilsko, Muńcoł and the Beech Woods of the Żywiec Region Beskidy i Jura
Nature Reserves of the Beskids: Barania Góra, Pilsko, Muńcoł and the Beech Woods of the Żywiec Region
Fourteen reserves in the Silesian, Żywiec and Little Beskids: the sources of the Vistula, fragments of the Carpathian Forest, the peat bogs on Rysianka and the spring undergrowth of Muńcoł. What exactly each of them protects and how to approach them.
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Mountain Huts of the Silesian Beskids: From Szyndzielnia to Przysłop below Barania Góra Beskidy i Jura
Mountain Huts of the Silesian Beskids: From Szyndzielnia to Przysłop below Barania Góra
The huts of the Silesian Beskids arose from the rivalry of German and Polish tourist societies. From Klimczok and Szyndzielnia above Bielsko-Biała, through Błatnia and Skrzyczne, to Stożek and Przysłop below Barania Góra: the history of buildings that still stand on the trails.
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