Photos: a trip or few, part 2
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aletheiafelineaWe’re moving westward from the previous place, today. That is, 24 July.
Not very far westward, some dozen kilometers/seven miles. This is the Tatra Mountains viewed from the Snozka Pass.
The Pass is placed to the north from Czorsztyński Lake aka Lake Czorsztyn. The white spiky thing on a hill to the left is a sculpture by Władysław Hasior, unveiled in 1966 as the monument which inscription said “Those Who Lost their Lives in Consolidating the Authority of the People in the Podhale Region,” a not very popular dedication, especially in the following decades, as you can guess, and the cause to a recent war between political and artistic minded ones. The latter won, and the monument has been renovated and officially renamed for “Organs”, being the informal name all the time anyway. You see, the project was intended to involve the local winds and make them sing. Alas, the pipes has never been installed, so the Organs stay mute. I can’t say I’m a great lover of the contemporary art (OK, of some more popular trends of it) and the Organs are more Big Rake for me (especially given the surroundings…), but I’m rather happy it has been left there. It’s well placed and has absolutely no use – what else you can want from an artpiece? :) I’d be even more happy if the sound was there as originally planned, but in such case I think I’d rather not to be a cow on these pastures…
Above the Snozka, which is quite a broad piece of plain, the Wdżar Mt. towers, the pronunciation not as horrible as it looks, I swear… And it blooms on the top! ^^
Not only blooms though… This monstrosity is supposed to be an artistic interpretation of a dragon. The legend was written on a nearby stand. I can’t say it turned out the most fabulous one I’ve ever read, cause it boiled down to “one fellow saw a dragon burning a village, and the next morning there was an egg, and it began to crack, but the local blacksmith leapt with his hammer and whacked the hatchling dead,” end of story. Well, the figure has an egg indeed, as you can see, chain-attached and with a padlock-secured tiny opening.
Looks like the security works, cause a wooden inn some hundred meters away hasn’t been dragon-burnt so far.
Nevermind dragons, haven’t I told to see a swallowtail in Pieniny you need only climb some peak? Wdżar is not an exception.
Once you’re fed up with the dragon’s painted stare, you can go down from the mountain and go somewhere other. Say, the village of Czorsztyn. Usually whatever you can learn about the place is “it has a castle ruins, and a castle ruins, and oh, did I mention castle ruins?” But come on, it has also a lake, yes, the one named ‘Czorsztyński’, in case some tourist gets lost.
Ahem, contrary to all evidence we’re in mountains still…
And do you really care for the ruins? How about some Czorsztyn gardens instead? ^^
To be continued. :)
Not very far westward, some dozen kilometers/seven miles. This is the Tatra Mountains viewed from the Snozka Pass.
The Pass is placed to the north from Czorsztyński Lake aka Lake Czorsztyn. The white spiky thing on a hill to the left is a sculpture by Władysław Hasior, unveiled in 1966 as the monument which inscription said “Those Who Lost their Lives in Consolidating the Authority of the People in the Podhale Region,” a not very popular dedication, especially in the following decades, as you can guess, and the cause to a recent war between political and artistic minded ones. The latter won, and the monument has been renovated and officially renamed for “Organs”, being the informal name all the time anyway. You see, the project was intended to involve the local winds and make them sing. Alas, the pipes has never been installed, so the Organs stay mute. I can’t say I’m a great lover of the contemporary art (OK, of some more popular trends of it) and the Organs are more Big Rake for me (especially given the surroundings…), but I’m rather happy it has been left there. It’s well placed and has absolutely no use – what else you can want from an artpiece? :) I’d be even more happy if the sound was there as originally planned, but in such case I think I’d rather not to be a cow on these pastures…
Above the Snozka, which is quite a broad piece of plain, the Wdżar Mt. towers, the pronunciation not as horrible as it looks, I swear… And it blooms on the top! ^^
Not only blooms though… This monstrosity is supposed to be an artistic interpretation of a dragon. The legend was written on a nearby stand. I can’t say it turned out the most fabulous one I’ve ever read, cause it boiled down to “one fellow saw a dragon burning a village, and the next morning there was an egg, and it began to crack, but the local blacksmith leapt with his hammer and whacked the hatchling dead,” end of story. Well, the figure has an egg indeed, as you can see, chain-attached and with a padlock-secured tiny opening.
Looks like the security works, cause a wooden inn some hundred meters away hasn’t been dragon-burnt so far.
Nevermind dragons, haven’t I told to see a swallowtail in Pieniny you need only climb some peak? Wdżar is not an exception.
Once you’re fed up with the dragon’s painted stare, you can go down from the mountain and go somewhere other. Say, the village of Czorsztyn. Usually whatever you can learn about the place is “it has a castle ruins, and a castle ruins, and oh, did I mention castle ruins?” But come on, it has also a lake, yes, the one named ‘Czorsztyński’, in case some tourist gets lost.
Ahem, contrary to all evidence we’re in mountains still…
And do you really care for the ruins? How about some Czorsztyn gardens instead? ^^
To be continued. :)
