The Slovak-Polish Tatras

The 1st edition of the guide book to the territory of the Slovak and Polish Tatras was published by the Dajama in 1998, 350 pp., with color pictures and maps, hardbound.

"The territory around the Tatras overlaps with almost the whole of the Orava, Liptov, Spis and Podhale region, while only the remotest corners of the regions have been omitted herein," writes the editor of the guide in the introduction.

Part of the series called Regions without frontiers.

Writers: Daniel Kolar, Jan Lacika, Roman Malarz

The guidebook appears in six languages - Slovak, English, German, Hungarian, Polish and Russians.

Contents

INTRODUCTION 5

THE SLOVAK TATRAS

Situation 9

Natural setting 10

History 29

Population and settlements 40

Zuberec and its environs 43

Žiar and its environs 55

Podbanské and its environs 67

Štrbské pleso and its environs 75

Starý Smokovec and its environs 89

Tatranská Lomnica and its environs 105

Ždiar and its environs 119

ORAVA

Námestovo and its environs 132

Tvrdošín and its environs 138

Dolný Kubín and its environs 146

LIPTOV

Ružomberok and its environs 158

Liptovský Mikuláš and its environs 172

Liptovský Hrádok and its environs 194

SPIŠ

Stará Ľubovňa and its environs 204

Kežmarok and its environs 222

Poprad and its environs 239

Spišská Nová Ves and its environs 252

THE POLISH TATRAS

Location 271

Natural setting 272

History and population 280

Zakopane and its environs 283

Kościelisko and its environs 296

Bukowina Tatrzańska and its environs 301

Poronin and its environs 306

NÍZKE PODHALE

Nowy Targ and its environs 310

ORAVA

Jabłonka and its environs 322

SPIŠ

Łapsze Niżne and its environs 327

PIENINY

Szczawnica and its environs 334

REGISTER 340

AUTHORS 342

DICTIONARY 342

REFERENCES 345

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS FROM A TO Z 346