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HINT ORAVA CASTLE Oravský Podzámok

ORAVA CASTLE

Oravský Podzámok (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

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 were alternately property of royals and rich squires. The Thurzos turned the castle into a today's...

HINT Sightseeing cruises on Orava dam, Orava ship Námestovo

Sightseeing cruises on Orava dam, Orava ship

Námestovo (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

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 well as trips for pensioners. It is possible to pre-order meals, snack or folk music. The cruise...

Reservoir Orava Námestovo

Reservoir Orava

Námestovo (area: Orava reservoir, region: 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 called Slanice. There is the Church of St. Cross situated on the island with the museum of folk sculpture...

SKI centre UHLISKÁ Nižná

SKI centre UHLISKÁ

Nižná (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

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 there is a parking lot for 230 cars. Ski slopes are artificially snowed and maintained daily.

Františkova huta Nižná

Františkova huta

Nižná (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

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, nozzle chamber, pile of iron ore (behind the building). The building is owned by the municipality...

Loď Slanica Námestovo

Loď Slanica

Námestovo (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

Wooden-Raft on Orava Oravský Podzámok

Wooden-Raft on Orava

Oravský Podzámok (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

A rafting trip on the Orava River offers beautiful views of Orava Castle and the surrounding nature of the Orava region. The approximately one-hour trip begins in the village of Horná Lehota, where tourists parking in Oravský Podzámok are driven by car. The destination of the trip is Oravský Podzámok. If you parked in Horná Lehota, you will be driven back there after the rafting. During the rafting trip, you will learn about the history of rafting on the Orava River. Number of tourists per raft: 12 Duration of the trip: approx. 1 hour Operation during the season: July and August,...

SkiPark Racibor Oravský Podzámok

SkiPark Racibor

Oravský Podzámok (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

The ski area SkiPark RACIBOR near the village of Oravský Podzámok provides 7 km of slopes of varying difficulty with an elevation of 237 m, suitable for intermediate as well as professional skiers. In case of lack of snow, a fully automated snowmaking system is built in the area along the entire length of the track, which measures 1300 m. The tracks are groomed daily by the Ratrak. The new four-seater cable car has a length of 1050 m and its peak is located at an altitude of 759 m above sea level. m. with a total elevation of 237 m. The transport capacity of the cable car is 2,000 people per...

Slanický Island of Art Námestovo

Slanický Island of Art

Námestovo (area: Orava reservoir, region: Orava)

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, which were opened in the years 1971 - 1973. In the interior of the Baroque-Classicist church...