27 Sights in Zakopane, Poland (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Zakopane, Poland. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 27 sights are available in Zakopane, Poland.
Sightseeing Tours in Zakopane1. Kalacka Turnia
Kalacka Turnia – a crag rising above the Kalatówki clearing in the Polish Tatra Mountains. It is located at the end of the eastern ridge of Długi Giewont. On Kalacka Kopa this ridge splits into two branches; Kalacka Turnia is located in the orographic right. Its south-western slopes descend to the Bystra Valley, the north-eastern slopes to the Kalacký Trough. The slopes are now completely forested, only the top itself is rocky, similar to the ruins of a castle. For this reason, in the first half of the 19th century, it was called the "Zakopane Castle". It is made of limestone rocks. The limestone substratum causes karst phenomena to occur here. At the south-western foot of Kalacka Turnia there is a large Bystra Spring, and on the slopes there are caves: Mokra Koleba, Frapowana Nyża, Kalacki Tunelik, Dudnica, Kalacka Cave, Bystra Cave, Hole behind the Boulders, Goat Corridor.
2. Jastrzębia Turnia
Jastrzębia Turnia is a rock in the northern slopes of the Krokiew massif in the Western Tatra Mountains in Poland. It is located in the ridge separating the Valley above Capkami from the Żleb pod Kogutkami. It is the same ridge on which the ski jumping hills were built: Wielka Krokiew and Medium Krokiew. Jastrzębia Turnia rises above these hills, to an altitude of approx. 1090 m above sea level. It is made of carbonate rocks and was used by rock climbers. Its highest wall is 11 m high, 8 of which are difficult. There are 4 climbing routes with a maximum difficulty of VIII degree on the UIAA (Tatra) scale of difficulty.
3. Chatka Św. Brata Alberta
Brother Albert's Hermitage is a small wooden building in the Albertine Sisters Convent in Kalatówki in Zakopane. It was built in 1901. It is a modest two-room building with an attic, a small porch and a narrow vestibule. One room was intended as an auxiliary room for priests who celebrated Holy Masses in the chapel of the Albertine nuns, the other as a cell for Brother Albert, i.e. Adam Chmielowski, the founder of this monastery. He stayed there when he came from Cracow. This cell is almost entirely occupied by a wooden, narrow bunk.
4. Muzeum Jana Kasprowicza
Villa "Harenda" – the house of Jan Kasprowicz in Zakopane on Harenda, on the slopes of Gubałówka. The poet acquired it in 1923 from the English painter Winifred Cooper with the money he earned from translating Shakespeare. Currently, it houses the Kasprowicz Biographical and Literary Museum. The name of the villa comes from the inn "Pod Arendą" located in Czarnowąsy near Opole. Later, Kasprowicz changed the name by adding the highlander aspiration h. The future poet frequented this inn during his school education in 1881.
5. Jaskinia Juhaska
The Juhaska Cave, formerly known as the Juhaska Cave, is a cave in the Strążyska Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two entrance openings located in the northern wall of Juhaska Turnia in the massif of the Long Giewont, in the Banie couloir, at a distance of about 100 m in a straight line from the Higher Sucha Pass, at altitudes of 1570 m and 1586 m above sea level. The length of the cave is 23 meters and its denivelation is 16 meters.
6. Sucha Czubka
Dry Czubka – an outstanding regal peak in the back separating the White Valley from the Strążyska Valley in the Western Tatras. It is located in the upper, southern part of this ridge, between the Wyżna Dry Pass and Nizhnia Dry Pass. On the east side, his slopes fall into the Sucha Valley. On the western side, to the Great Equal in the upper part of the Strążyska Valley is falling from it a forest-rockist Jeleni Grzbiet.
7. Suchy Wierch
Suchy Wierch is a mountain in the Western Tatras in Poland, rising in the ridge separating the Strążyska Valley in the west from the White Valley in the east. In this ridge it is located between the Nizhnia Sucha Pass (1508 m) and the Red Pass (1301 m). On its eastern slopes there are no ridges or perches, while in the western direction from its top there is a horse ridge separating the Deer Gully from the Roe Deer.
8. Kościół pw. św. Jana Apostoła i Ewangelisty
The Church of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist in Harenda – a wooden church built in the years 1710–1720 in Zakrzów near Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, moved in 1947 to Zakopane. It is surrounded by Saturdays. The interior is decorated with guild paintings, renovated by Władysław Jarocki. Next to the church there is a mausoleum and villa "Harenda". The church is located on the Małopolska Wooden Architecture Route.
Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jana Apostoła i Ewangelisty na Harendzie (PL)
9. Galeria Antoniego Rząsy
The Antoni Rząsa Gallery in Zakopane is an author's gallery built by Antoni Rząsa (1919–1980), a sculptor from Zakopane, at 16a Bogdańskiego Street. The exhibition facility has been operating since 1976. Since 1981, it has been run by the artist's son, Marcin Rząsa. In addition to the permanent exhibition of Antoni Rząsa's sculptures, the gallery presents temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.
10. Jaskinia Kalacka
Kalacka Cave is a cave located in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located on the eastern slope of Kalacka Turnia descending into the Kalatówka clearing, above the Bystra Spring, slightly above the marked tourist trail to the Kondratowa Valley, at an altitude of 1230 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 405 meters, and its denivelation is 19 meters.
11. Biała Czubka
Biała Czubka – a hill in the Giewont massif in the Polish Western Tatras. It is located in the White Ridge between the White Pass and the White Pass. The north-western slopes are covered with a forest called Patyki, the eastern slopes are called Kalacki Upłaz. Due to the former pastoral economy, they were heavily depleted and heavily eroded, but now they are also overgrown with forest.
12. Turnia nad Białem
The Crag on the Biała River is a crag in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Western Tatra Mountains in Poland. It is located in the eastern part of this ridge, steeply descending to Kalacka Kopa, between Bramótki and Wyżni Wrótki. The latter pass is located just on the western side of Turnia nad Białem, while a grassy and rocky ridge about 450 m long descends to the Gates.
13. Juhaska Kopa
Juhaska Kopa is a small bulge in the ridge of the Long Giewont in the Western Tatra Mountains in Poland, between Juhaska Przehyba and Vyšní Bramótki. The northern slopes descend by the wall to both the Sucha Valley and the Banie couloir in the upper part of the Strążyska Valley. The southern slopes descend into the Kondratowa Valley.
14. Ogród Botaniczny im. Mariana Raciborskiego
The Marian Raciborski Mountain Botanical Garden of the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Zakopane – the botanical garden in Zakopane is an integral part of the Tatra Field Station of the Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It is the smallest botanical garden in Poland.
15. Kopa nad Białym
Kopa nad Biały is a small mountain at the mouth of the White Valley in the Western Tatra Mountains in Poland. The hill is located in the lower part of the Spaleniec ridge separating the White Valley from the Spadowiec Valley. The southern slopes descend to the Road under the Reglami, under which there is a clearing at this point.
16. Dworzec PKP Zakopane
Zakopane railway station is a railway station in Zakopane, Poland and the terminus of PKP rail line 99. The station was opened in 1899 and electrified in 1975. It is also the highest situated staffed railway station in Poland at 835 metres above sea level. As of 2023, it is served by Koleje Śląskie, Polregio, and PKP Intercity.
17. Klasztor Albertynek na Kalatówkach
The Albertine Monastery in Kalatówki is a monastery and hermit complex of the Albertine Sisters in Kalatówki in Zakopane, Poland. It is located on the Brother Albert Road from Kuźnice to the Kalatówki clearing. Geographically, it is located in the Tatra Mountains, administratively it belongs to Zakopane.
18. Galeria Sztuki XX wieku w willi Oksza
Willa "Oksza" - a residential building in the Zakopane style designed in 1894–1895 by Stanisław Witkiewicz and located in Zakopane at ul. Zamoyskiego 25. Since 2006, it has been the seat of the branch of the Tatra Museum Dr. Tytus Chałubiński, there is the 20th century art gallery.
19. Dudnica
Dudnica is a cave in the Bystra Valley in the Western Tatras. It has two close to each other entrance at the foot of Kalacká Turnia at an altitude of 1181 meters above sea level, near the outlet of the Bystra Cave. The length of the cave is 185 meters and the denivelation is 12 meters.
20. Muzeum przyrodnicze TPN
The Tatra National Park Nature Education Centre, formerly the Natural History Museum of the Tatra National Park in Zakopane, is an institution of the Tatra National Park, which functioned under the name of the Natural History Museum of the Tatra National Park in the years 1984–2004.
Wikipedia: Centrum Edukacji Przyrodniczej Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego (PL)
21. Mokra Koleba
Wet Koleba - a cave, or actually a shelter, in the Kondratowa Valley in the Western Tatras. The entrance to it is located in the southern slope of Kalacka Turnia, at an altitude of 1285 meters above sea level. The length of the cave is 11 meters and its denial is 2.5 meters.
22. Dworzec Tatrzański
Tatrzański Railway Station – a building located in Zakopane at 12 Krupówki Street. It served as the first cultural centre in Zakopane. It has never been a railway station, the railway station in Zakopane is located in a completely different part of the city.
23. Krokiew
Krokiew – a two-peaked mountain in the Tatra Mountains above Zakopane, located between the Bystra Valley and the White Valley. On its slopes a ski jumping hill complex was built, which includes Wielka Krokiew and the Medium Krokiew Ski Jumping Hill Complex.
24. Kaplica pw. Najświętszego Serca Jezusa w Jaszczurówce
Jaszczurówka chapel, chapel in Lizard, chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - a cup church of the Roman Catholic parish in Toporowa Cyrhla. The temple designed by Stanisław Witkiewicz began to be built in 1904, and was dedicated in 1907.
Wikipedia: Kaplica Najświętszego Serca Jezusa w Jaszczurówce (PL)
25. Władysław Hasior Gallery
The Władysław Hasior Gallery is an art gallery in Zakopane, founded in 1985, functioning as a branch of the National Tatra Museum. It is an author's gallery of Władysław Hasior, presenting a collection of about 200 of his works.
26. Cmentarz Zasłużonych na Pęksowym Brzyzku
The Cemetery of Merit in Pęksowy Brzyzek in Zakopane – the first cemetery in Zakopane at Kościeliska Street, founded in the second half of the 19th century by the first parish priest of Zakopane, Father Józef Stolarczyk.
27. Jaskinia Bystrej
The Bystrá Cave is a cave located in the Western Tatras in the Bystra Valley, at the foot of Kalacká Turnia. Together with the Kalacka Cave and the Dudnica Cave, it is part of the drainage system of the Giewont massif.
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