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Located
in Southern Poland (Lesser Poland), at the border with the Slovak Republic.
The Park is founded on the area of
the highest and Poland’s only alpine mountains with diverse relief and
height differences reaching up to 1700 m. The highest peak in the Polish
part of the Tatras, being at the same time the highest peak in Poland, is Mt
Rysy (2499 m).
The Park has more than 650 caves.
Tatra folklore is as important to
the Tatra National Park as its natural environment. Mountain traditions are
unique and strongly supported and they embrace dialect, clothing and customs
of Tatra highlanders. Their past lives in glorious legends and is preserved
in mountain shrines, churches and huts. Unique Zakopane style of
architecture developed there on the turn of the 19th century.
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