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The<br />
View of the northern slopes of Ďumbier<br />
superlatives...<br />
The village of Špania Dolina<br />
Demänovská jaskyňa slobody<br />
(Demänová Freedom Cave)<br />
The Chopok sever - Jasná Lúková ski centre<br />
In area, the Low Tatras (Nízke Tatry) form the<br />
largest mountain range in Slovakia<br />
The highest summit in the range is Ďumbier at<br />
2043 metres above sea level<br />
The longest valley is Vajskovská, on the<br />
southern side of the range<br />
The cave with the largest number of visitors is<br />
Demänovská jaskyňa slobody (Demänová<br />
Freedom Cave) in the valley of Demänovská<br />
dolina<br />
70% of the Low Tatra National Park is covered<br />
by forests<br />
and the forest paths along which they transported the ore to the hammer<br />
mills and smelting works. In Špania Dolina we can see the remains of a<br />
water pipe that brought water from beneath Prašivá peak, 15 km away.<br />
It was the opening to the public of a cave, Demänovská jaskyňa, that<br />
attracted the tourist industry to this area. Tourists began to discover the<br />
beauty of the Low Tatra landscape on a large scale only in the second<br />
half of the 20th century, when chair lifts were built on the northern and<br />
southern slopes of Chopok. Two of the largest tourist centres in the<br />
national park — Demänovská dolina — Jasná in the north and<br />
Trangoška-Srdiečko-Kosodrevina in the south — grew up around their<br />
valley stations.<br />
Bratislava<br />
The second most frequented mountain range in Slovakia is the Nízke<br />
Tatry - the Low Tatras. On account of its plentiful forests and rich ore<br />
deposits, this area has attracted interest since times immemorial.<br />
Documents from the period tell us that precious and non-ferrous metals<br />
were already mined here in the Middle Ages. Mining for silver ore in the<br />
11th century uncovered such rich deposits of copper ore that silver lost<br />
its former value. The intensive mining of minerals was concentrated in the<br />
area of the Staré Hory hills, Špania Dolina, Magurka and Dúbrava,<br />
Vyšná Boca and Nižná Boca. Copper, iron, antimony, gold, silver and<br />
lead were the main ores to be extracted. In 1917 a lump of gold<br />
weighing 7.5 kg was found in Magurka, where extremely pure gold<br />
usually occurred in silica veins in the form of tiny grains and strands. All<br />
that is left nowadays to remind us of this glorious mining history are the<br />
characteristic wooden houses of the German miners who settled here<br />
Brankovský vodopád,<br />
a 55-metre waterfall<br />
www.nizketatry.sk<br />
Pages 2–3<br />
THE LOW TATRAS
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