There is magic in Zakopane! This will be confirmed by everyone who has been close to the snow-capped Tatras at least once, danced to the rhythm of highland music, or taken a sleigh ride in the direction of the quiet, white Jaszczurówka.
Zakopane is a town in which life is...

Polo on snow is played in only a very few places in the world, such as St Moritz, Cortina d’Ampezzo or Aspen. Zakopane joined this exclusive club last February. The success of the competition was beyond all expectations, as 2,000 spectators watched it.
Ancient Persia is considered...

The Witkiewicz Theatre, popularly called the Witkacy, opened in Zakopane twenty-three years ago. It was then that an idea to start a theatre in Zakopane, a town strongly associated with the unusual dramatist, painter and philosopher Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, was born in the minds of...

Mo­un­ta­in Bi­king
If it is skis and snow­bo­ards that are car­ried on the ro­of-racks of cars go­ing to Za­ko­pa­ne in win­ter, it is mo­un­ta­in bi­kes in spring and sum­mer. The...

The south of the region of Małopolska, with its beautiful mountains, is at the peak of the winter tourist season. Hundreds of thousands of visitors come to the numerous modern skiing stations to be found in the Tatras, the Pieniny, the Beskid Wysoki, Sądecki and Niski, and the Gorce. Many of them...

Zakopane is celebrating the Year of Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), composer and pianist and one of the greatest Polish artists of the twentieth century. He came to Zakopane for the first time in 1922 to study the region’s traditional music. His fascination with the Polish highland style led...

The tradition of playing jazz in the Tatras dates back several decades. The tradition had been discontinued, but a group of jazz enthusiasts decided to revive it, and for eleven years now the Jazz Camping festival in Kalatówki has been a regular event.
Veterans of the jazz scene...

For many people autumn is the most beautiful of the seasons. Forests sparkling with the colours of autumn, the four peaks of Czerwone Wierchy (‘Red Peaks’ – the name comes from the rust-coloured grass growing there), the unusual clearness of the air, and the unfailing weather...

The exhibition at the W. & J. Kulczycki Art Gallery in Koziniec in Zakopane is an attempt to touch the intangible beauty of the mountains – a foehn, peaks veiled in mist, and the sun reflected in Tatra tarns.
It invites visitors to discover the Tatras through the works of...

Ski-lifts are in service from early morning hours to late evening hours. Around almost all of them there are instructors waiting, ready to teach a little or a big lover of winter sports how to ski or snowboard. In the central part of the town there are two ice rinks with skate rental....