Oravská Polhora, tourist attractions
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Ski Gruníky Sihelné
Ski area Gruníky Sihelne is located near the village Oravská Polhora, at the foot of Orava Beskids. Modern resort launched its first winter season at the turn of 2006 and 2007. Facilities of the area include a turnstile system Ski Data. The resort features very well groomed and lighted downhill trails, as well as excellent snow conditions. The ski area is visited mainly guests from Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic. It is suitable for demanding but also less experienced skiers of all ages. The slope is designated also for families with small children. The ski resort offers trained ski instructors,...
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Slanický Island of Art
In the beautiful natural scenery of the Slanice Island of Art in the middle of the Orava Reservoir, there are permanent exhibitions of folk art from the collections of the Orava Gallery. Of the five settlements that disappeared forever under the water of the dam in 1953, only the hill with a Baroque church and Calvary, which once formed the dominant feature of the village of Slanica, has been preserved as an island. In a few years, the idea arose to create permanent exhibitions of the Orava Gallery,...
Reservoir Orava
Orava dam is the most popular tourist centre on the river Orava. Slanícka osada and Prístav are two most important summer leisure and sport centres located in the South and the South-East of the dam around the main road. Orava dam has excellent conditions for windsurfing, yachting, diving and other water sports lovers. For others there are water bicycles, boats and motorboats available here. You should not miss sightseeing boat ride to Slanicky island - the leftover of one of the sunken villages...
Sightseeing cruises on Orava dam, Orava ship
Enjoy a unique cruise on the Orava Dam on comfortable boat that has a capacity of 162 persons. Embarkation on Ship Orava is in port No. 1 near Hotel Goral. During the voyage you will enjoy beautiful views of the Western Tatras and Babia Hora and recognize Slanica Island of Art, where the boat stops a makes a 25 minutes break. On the boat there is a buffet with refreshments possibilities and toilets. Boat tour is ideal for school trips and as an enrichment of programs for corporate events, as...
Ski Krušetnica
Situated at the Guest house Relax in a small village Krusetnica in the north of Slovakia, the ski resort can be found in the Orava region. It is only 14 km from Namestovo, spreading along the banks of the Orava dam. The resort has a ski lift with a length of 750 meters and the 4-seat chairlift. Its slopes are suitable for beginners and less experienced skiers, who do not seek too steep ski runs. In the ski resort Krusetnica, you can enjoy daily skiing and thanks to enlighten slopes you can ski...
SKI ORAVA SNOW
Ski resort Orava Snow located in the Orava Beskids on the Polish-Slovak border, lies in the coldest Slovak valley in Oravska Lesna. The area comes with a rich selection of diverse, wide and well-groomed trails, where you can enjoy great arches and do not worry "crush" on the slope. The resort offers excellent conditions perfect for family skiing. There are 6 main, groomed daily, ski trails, which are on 2 hills (Kohutik, Lehotska) interconnected with modern 4-seat chairlift and 4 ski...
SKI centre UHLISKÁ
SKI RESORT UHLISKA in the village Nizna offers fully refurbished ski lift long 1250 m. This resort situated in the Orava region is 8 km from the village Habovka, 10 km from Zuberec and 7 km from the town of Tvrdošín The width of slopes is widespread along the entire length to about 50 -70 m. Skiers may use advantage of slopes with a total length of 4 km. You can get to the resort, right to the bottom station, on a maintained road. A new access road from Podbiel was also built. At the resort...
Františkova huta
The Františkova huta (locally only Hámor) technical monument, the ruins of the ironworks (ironworks) factory from 1836. It is located in Orava, in the cadastral area of Nižná, approx. 2 km southeast of the village of Podbiel on the road II / 584 near the Studený stream. Towards Zuberec. The building is declared a national cultural monument. Originally a classicist factory building with triangular bays. Preserved classicist facade, district walls, smelter, inlet and outlet channel, hammer,...
SKI BREZOVICA
In the picturesque surroundings of Upper Orava, under Skorušinské hills, with the highest peak Skorušina (1314 m.a.s.l.) lies the village of Brezovica (730 m.a.s.l.). The village itself and its surroundings offer a lot of possibilities for tourism, sport, recreation, relax and fun. The winter sport lovers, particularly those keen on skiing (in the neighbourhood there are a lot of possibilities for skiing and ski tracks) will find what they are looking for but one can go in also for other types...
SKI Zabava Hrustin
Ski Zabava Resort, Vasilovska hola is located in the north part of Slovakia near by well-known towns in Orava – Dolny Kubin and Namestovo. Ski Resort is placed about 900 - 1150 meters above the see level to the north of Vasilovská Hola. This location provides not only great snow conditions during the entire ski season but it enables to have an amazing skiing for visitors.
Ski resort VITANOVÁ
Ski resort VITANOVÁ features perfectly groomed ski slopes. The new technology in the form of lifts and chair lift guarantees that you will not waste your time waiting in line. Of course there are artificial snow ski slopes which are maintained daily. The total transport capacity of the lifts is 3600 persons per hour. Vitanová Ski resort is situated at an altitude of 725 m - 968 m AMSL. Trails offer three levels of difficulty to satisfy every skier. They can admire the beautiful nature of Orava...
ORAVA CASTLE
Large and well-preserved castle is towering on a steep limestone hill right by the village at 112 metres over the level of the river Orava, about 10 kilometres from Dolny Kubin. The castle is a national culture heritage. Orava Castle, before the centre of Orava area, was founded in the 13th century on the place of older settlement. The oldest historical notes of it come back to the year before 1235 when it had been the king's property. Orava Castle together with the surrounded Orava lands...