Ethno-nature of the highlander world.
Looking at the perfect harmony of highlander culture and nature will allow you to experience wisdom resulting from intuition, community, life experience and respect for tradition and nature.
The theme of the tour is to show the diversity of the Pieniny Highlanders, the intimacy and preserved cultural landscape of the village of Zamaguria, their architecture, local products, activities, and the surrounding nature. Introducing the folk architecture of the region, as well as showing the life of those who ruled the peasants.
The sight is what allows you to absorb the surrounding world of Zamaguria. You can admire the picturesque features of the Pieniny Mountains, find the traces of monks in the Red Monastery, see the nuances of folk costumes and architecture, admire the art of dance. The smell impressions will also be important: characteristic spa water, herbs, flower meadows, old walls and wood, fresh coniferous forest, church incense, whiskey and chocolate. Travelers will admire the monumental panorama of the Pieniny Mountains, the peaks of the Tatra Mountains, mountain valleys, captivating architecture and details of folk costumes.
What to see?
Where to sleep?
What to eat?
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Arrival by plane to the airport in Kosice
Transfer to Presov, accommodation at the Carpe Diem Hotel, dinner, free time, overnight.
Breakfast at the hotel.
A walk with a guide in the city connecting in a unique way the cultural conglomerate of Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians and Lemkos - the capital of the region (St. Nicholas Co-Cathedral, Synagogue, visiting the National Museum - the most important museum on the ethnographic route of the region, with a rich exhibition presenting rural life in the Carpathians, approx. 2 hours.
Transfer to Stara Lubovla (approx. 1 hour) visiting the open-air museum of Spiš folk architecture. In the open-air museum there are sacred buildings (Greek Catholic church), residential houses, farm buildings and workshops (forge, mill, carpentry workshop), as well as a school building, approx.
Lunch at the restaurant at the restaurant of Countess Izabela by the castle, referring to the name of Izabela Zamoyska - his former resident.
Visiting the 14th-century castle. It guarded an important trade route that led along the Poprad River valley to Poland, approx. 1 hour.
On the way, a short stop in Kúpele Červený Kláštor Smerdžonka - one of the smallest Slovak spas, based on healing water, known since the 14th century.
Transfer to the Red Monastery, accommodation in the Pension Pltnik, free time, dinner, overnight.
Breakfast at the guesthouse.
Rafting down the Dunajec along the route used by Pieniny highlanders to float wood to the Baltic Sea (rafts, rafting), or a bicycle trip along the Dunajec, approx. 1.5 hours.
A walk to the Red Monastery - a former Carthusian monastery, famous for producing herbs and originally red brick, from which it is named. Visiting and listening to the legend of the Monk Cyprian, approx. 1 hour.
Workshops on herbs and herbal medicine, approx. 1 hour
Free time for a walk on the Dunajec River and photos, approx. 1 hour.
Transfer to lunch at the Highlander Restaurant with Spiš cuisine: bryndzové halušky, goralské pirohy.
A drive along a picturesque route with a view of the Tatra Mountains through the Ruthenian village of Osturňa - a living open-air museum of folk architecture, where the inhabitants speak a dialect that is difficult to understand for Slovaks. Stop at the vantage point, time for photos.
A visit to the Srtednica mountain cheese farm - one of the highest located in Slovakia, with over 100 years of tradition, producing 100% sheep's cheese, tasting and the opportunity to buy.
Arrival at the Safran Ždiar Guesthouse, free time (the possibility of admiring the traditional highlander architecture), dinner, overnight.
A visit to the Srtednica mountain cheese farm - one of the highest located in Slovakia, with over 100 years of tradition, producing 100% sheep's cheese, tasting and the opportunity to buy.
Arrival at the Safran Ždiar Guesthouse, free time (the possibility of admiring the traditional highlander architecture), dinner, overnight.
Breakfast at the guesthouse.
Transfer to the village of Bachledova Dolina.
Gondola ride to the top, crossing the Korunami Stromov pavement and the entrance to the observation tower. Admiring the panorama of the mountains (Tatra, Pieniny, Beskidy), approx. 2 hours
A visit to the farm of mountain products - handicrafts and natural cosmetics inspired by the nature of the Belianske Tatras. The apiary and the farm are located at an altitude of 1000 m above sea level
Visiting the Zdziarski House Museum - the social center of the region's culture, offering sightseeing and participation in the staging of a highlander wedding in traditional costumes, approx. 45 minutes.
Lunch at the Ždiarsky dom restaurant, a traditional Slovak restaurant in highlander style, with regional Zamaguria cuisine (including excellent sheep cheese soup) and mountain views.
Transfer to Nestville Park, a place referring to the tradition of whiskey distillery, with an ethnographic exhibition, own brewery, chocolate bar and a shop with regional products.
Sightseeing and tasting at Nestville Park.
Accommodation in Nestville, dinner, free time, overnight.
Breakfast at the Nestville complex.
Transfer to the airport in Košice, or as agreed between the organizer and the trip participant.
Funded by the National Institute Wolności - Center for the Development of Society Obywatelski from the Development Program funds Civic Organizations for 2018-2030
The website was created as part of the "EtnoCarpathia" project co-financed by the Interreg V-A Poland-Slovakia Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2014-2020 and by the National Institute of Freedom - Center for Civil Society Development from the Civic Organization Development Program for 2018-2030.
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