Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Karpacz, Poland

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 6.6 km
Ascend 569 m
Descend 180 m

Explore Karpacz in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Sight 1: Dom Nesthäkchen

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Dom Nesthäkchen unknown / PD-US

Else Ury was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series.

Wikipedia: Else Ury (EN)

1541 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 2: Gravitations-Anomalie

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Gravitational anomaly in Karpacz - a phenomenon observed in Karpacz Górny on ul. Strażacka, consisting in apparent spontaneous movement of objects and liquids on the road uphill. The phenomenon is an example of an optical illusion, the so -called magic hill - in fact the road lowers on the slope of the valley, despite the fact that it leads up the river.

Wikipedia: Anomalia grawitacyjna w Karpaczu (PL)

345 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Dziki Wodospad

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The Wild Waterfall is a debris dam on the Łomnica River in Karpacz.

Wikipedia: Dziki Wodospad (Karpacz) (PL)

1848 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 4: Świątynia Wang

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Vang Stave Church or Mountain Church of Our Savior is a stave church located in Karpacz in the Karkonosze mountains in Poland. It was transferred to its present location from Vang in the Valdres region of Norway and re-erected in 1842. A notable tourist attraction, it is Poland's only stave church. It serves as a parish church of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland.

Wikipedia: Vang Stave Church (EN), Website, Url

1865 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 5: Suszyca

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Suszyca is a mountain in the Karkonosze Mountains, within the Silesian Ridge.

Wikipedia: Suszyca (Karkonosze) (PL)

1004 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 6: Ruiny schroniska im. Bronka Czecha

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Ruiny schroniska im. Bronka Czecha

The shelter on the (Old) Glade – a non-existent facility, which was located in the Old Glade in the Karkonosze Mountains, by the trail from Karpacz to the "Strzecha Akademicka" shelter.

Wikipedia: Schronisko na Starej Polanie (PL)

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