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36-540: As the Podhale region developed into a tourist area in the mid-19th century, the population of Zakopane began to rise. The new buildings to house these new well-to-do inhabitants was built in the style of Swiss and later Austro-Hungarian chalets . Stanislaw Witkiewicz , an art critic, architect, painter, novelist and journalist, was chosen to design a villa for Zygmunt Gnatowski . In his plans, Witkiewicz decided against using foreign building styles and instead chose to utilize

72-559: A fundamentally Polish way. The Zakopane style soon found proponents among other outstanding architects, including Jan Witkiewicz-Koszyc , Wladyslaw Matlakowski , and Walery Eliasz-Radzikowski . Apart from architecture, the Zakopane Style was also used in decorative arts: The Zakopane Style was initially typical for the wooden architecture, but soon it was also developed in the brick architecture. The most important examples in Podhale are

108-417: A home that would inherently withstand all common grievances and undermine all customary prejudices. To erect a house that would prove that one can have a home, a dwelling in the dominant style of Zakopane and yet be confident that this home will not disintegrate, that it will effectively protect one from storms, gales and the cold, that it will possess the full range of comforts yet simultaneously be beautiful in

144-678: A modern aquapark with outside swimming pools with thermal water. A scene in Andrzej Wajda 's film Man of Marble ( Człowiek z marmuru ) was filmed in Zakopane, introducing the town to a worldwide audience. The mountain scenes from the Bollywood film Fanaa were filmed around Zakopane. Zakopane participates in town twinning to foster international links. Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America The Polish Highlanders Alliance of America ( pl. Związek Podhalan w Ameryce Północnej )

180-512: Is more than 600 m (2,000 ft) lower than Zakopane. With higher altitudes, the climate gets even colder, therefore, on the top of Kasprowy Wierch (1,987 m (6,519 ft) above sea level), the climate is tundra -like (Köppen: ET ). The tree line is located at about 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level in the Tatra Mountains. Winters are typically frosty but are relatively sunny for Poland - in fact, Zakopane receives among

216-493: Is often referred to as "the winter capital of Poland". It is a popular destination for mountaineering , skiing , and tourism . Zakopane lies near Poland's border with Slovakia , in a valley between the Tatra Mountains and Gubałówka Hill . It is connected by rail and road to the provincial capital, Kraków . Zakopane lies 800–1,000 metres above sea level and centres on the intersection of its Krupówki and Kościuszko Streets. The earliest documents mentioning Zakopane date to

252-521: The 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2011 and 2013 Alpine World Ski Championships. In Zakopane, there are two football clubs – one of them is KS Zakopane, which was established in 2007 as a result of the merger of ZKP Zakopane and Jutrzenka Zakopane. It currently competes in the B-class league, in the Podhale II group. Its matches are played at the facility located at Orkana Street 6. In the 2015/2016 season,

288-606: The Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków , where they were initially imprisoned, to Zakopane. Those Poles were mainly old people, ill people and women with children. In mid-October 1944, there were 3,800 registered Poles, who were expelled from Warsaw , and probably another 3,800 unregistered expellees. In January 1945, the Germans retreated from Zakopane and the German occupation ended. Immediately after

324-669: The Nazi Gestapo met for one week in Zakopane's Villa Tadeusz, to coordinate the pacification of resistance in Poland . Throughout World War II , Zakopane served as an underground staging point between Poland and Hungary . From 1942 to 1943, 1,000 prisoners from the German Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp were set to work in a stone quarry. In 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising , the Germans deported thousands of Varsovians from

360-565: The Nordic World Ski Championships in 1929, 1939, and 1962; the winter Universiades in 1956, 1993, and 2001; the biathlon World Championship; several ski jumping world cups ; and several Nordic combined, Nordic and Alpine European Cups. It hosted the second Alpine World Ski Championships in 1939, the first outside the Alps and the last official world championships prior to World War II . Zakopane made unsuccessful bids to host

396-724: The Tatra Museum , Dworzec Tatrzański and Grand Hotel Stamary in Zakopane and the Military Sanatorium in Kościelisko . The Zakopane style also gained popularity beyond the Polish highlands. In 1900, the young Kraków-based architect Franciszek Mączyński won an international architectural competition organized by the Paris-based magazine Moniteur des Architectes with a design of a villa in

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432-644: The Young Poland period. Today the city hosts many museums and galleries: The Tatras are a popular destination among hikers, skiers, ski-tourers and climbers. There is a network of well-marked hiking trails in the Tatras and according to the national park regulations the hikers must stick to them. Most of these trails are overcrowded, especially in the summer season. The High Tatras offer excellent opportunities for climbing (up to X UIAA grade ). In summer, lightning and snow are both potential hazards for climbers, and

468-511: The buildings of the Carpathian Mountains , the style was pioneered by Stanislaw Witkiewicz and is now considered a core tradition of the Goral people . The most prominent examples of the style are: Other important sights in Zakopane include: Since the end of the 19th century Zakopane was an important place for many artists, who frequently visited, worked or lived here, especially during

504-696: The townhouses located at 30 Chmielna Street in Warsaw and at 38 Pekarska Street in Lviv as well as a brick tenement by Jan Starowicz dubbed "Beneath the Góral" in Łódź . Additionally, the Góral diaspora has incorporated the norms and designs of the Zakopane Style of Architecture into homes, chapels and community buildings that serve their community, such as the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America in Chicago, or

540-438: The 17th century, describing a glade called Zakopisko . In 1676, it was a village of 43 inhabitants. In 1818, Zakopane was a small town that was still being developed. There were only 340 homes that held 445 families. The population of Zakopane at that time was 1,805: 934 women and 871 men. The first church was built in 1847, by Józef Stolarczyk. Zakopane became a center for the region's mining and metallurgy industries; by

576-462: The 19th century, it was the largest center for metallurgy in the region of Galicia . It expanded during the 19th century as the climate attracted more inhabitants. By 1889, it had developed from a small village into a climatic health resort . Rail services to Zakopane began on October 1, 1899. In the late 1800s, Zakopane constructed a road that went to the town of Nowy Targ and had railways that came from Chabówka . Because of easier transportation,

612-459: The Bystre district. Stanislaw Witkiewicz once wrote on the idea of the Zakopane style: The idea was not to build yet one more beautiful, typical house. The focus was something else entirely: to build a home which would settle all existing doubts about the possibility of adapting folk architecture to the requirements deriving from the more complex and sophisticated needs of comfort and beauty. To design

648-698: The Football Club Zakopane was reactivated. After a successful 2015/16 season, in which the ZKP players managed to secure a promotion-eligible spot in the Podhale C-class, they are now playing in the Podhale B-class league. Zakopane is visited by over 2,500,000 tourists a year. In the winter, Zakopane's tourists are interested in winter sports activities such as skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, snowmobiling, sleigh rides, snowshoe walks, and Ice skating. During

684-470: The Zakopane style. Zakopane Zakopane ( Podhale Goral : Zokopane ) is a town in the south of Poland , in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains . From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship ; since 1999, it has been part of Lesser Poland Voivodeship . As of 2017 its population was 27,266. Zakopane is a centre of Goral culture and

720-715: The Zakopane style. There was also the Dom Ludowy in Sosnowiec , the Chata built for author Stefan Żeromski in Nałęczów , a series of villas in Wisła , Konstancin-Jeziorna , Anin and Vilnius , as well as the train station in Saldutiškis , Lithuania. There were also some attempts to adapt the style to brick construction. Examples include Czeslaw Domaniewski's design for a series of train stations,

756-535: The chapel on the grounds of the Polish National Alliance 's Youth Camp in Yorkville . The Zakopane style dominated architecture in the Podhale and other Goral Lands for many years. Although the cutoff date for buildings designed in the Zakopane Style of Architecture is usually held to be 1914, many new pensions, villas and highlander homes are built according to the architectural model devised by Witkiewicz to

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792-635: The local traditions used by the native Górals of Podhale. Drawing on the Vernacular architecture of the Carpathians , Witkiewicz used as a model the modest but richly decorated homes in Góral villages such as Chochołów which he further enriched by incorporating select elements of Art Nouveau style, thus giving birth to the "Zakopane Style". This building, known as the Villa "Koliba" was built between 1892 and 1894, and it still stands to this day on Koscieliska Street in

828-452: The most sun in winter in the country. Snow is normally abundant, particularly in the higher altitudes, which makes Zakopane among the most popular ski resorts in Poland. Summers are cool to warm but rarely get hot. The defining feature of the local climate is the location on the northern slope of the Tatra mountains. Zakopane receives significantly more precipitation than cities on the lowlands to

864-665: The mountain resort of Zakopane . Witkiewicz designed a number of original buildings in Zakopane, including the "Dom pod Jedlami" in the Koziniec district, the chapel in the Jaszczurowka district, Villa "Oksza" on Zamojski Street, the building of the Tatra Museum , the chapel of St. John the Baptist in the parish Church of the Holy Family on Krupówki Street, and the Korniłowicz family chapel in

900-499: The north of the Carpathians , and just like in the mountains in general, there might be sudden weather changes from sunny to rainy, and vice versa. Occasionally, a very warm foehn wind locally known as halny may dramatically increase the temperatures, sometimes beyond 10 °C (50 °F) in winter. Extreme temperatures range from −34.1 °C (−29.4 °F) on February 1, 1956 up to 32.8 °C (91.0 °F) on August 8, 2013;

936-474: The population of Zakopane had increased to about 3,000 people by the end of the 1800s. In the 19th century, Krupówki Street was just a narrow beaten path that was meant for people to get from the central part of town to the village of Kuźnice. The ski jump on Wielka Krokiew was opened in 1925. The cable car to Kasprowy Wierch was completed in 1936. The funicular connected Zakopane and the top of Gubałówka in 1938. Because of Zakopane's popular ski mountains,

972-705: The present day. There was also a period of Neo-Zakopane Style in the 1950s during the Socialist realism , represented by such constructions like the Tourist hostel Dom Turysty in Zakopane (1949–1952) and several mountain huts , eg. in Dolina Pięciu Stawów Polskich (1947–1953) or in Chochołowska Polana (1951–1953). The museum of the Zakopane Style of Architecture located in the Villa "Koliba" first designed by Witkiewicz provides visitors with information on

1008-409: The record cold daily maximum is −19.6 °C (−3.3 °F), set on February 1, 1956, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is 23.4 °C (74.1 °F) on August 29, 1992. See or edit raw graph data . The Zakopane Style of Architecture is an architectural mode inspired by the regional art of Poland's highland region known as Podhale . Drawing on the motifs and traditions in

1044-720: The structure underwent renovation under the eye of famed artist Jerzy Kenar in 2005. In 2012 the Highlander House was upgraded with state of the art audio and video equipment. The Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America is a nonprofit organization run by an executive board. The members of the current (voted September 2024) board are: Chicago's Góral community publishes its own quarterly newspaper Podhalanin , in addition to transmitting radio programs such as "Gawędy", "Poezja i muzyka góralska", or "Na góralską nutę", broadcasting from WPNA 1490 AM. The Polish language Chicago area daily Dziennik Związkowy (Polish Daily News) publishes

1080-472: The summer, Tourists come to do activities like hiking, climbing, bike and horse ride the Tatras mountain, there are many trails in the Tatras. Tourists ride quads and dirt bikes that you can rent. Swimming and boat rides on the Dunajec river are popular. Many come to experience Goral culture, which is rich in its unique styles of food, speech, architecture, music, and costume. Zakopane is especially popular during

1116-560: The summer, a local market along Krupówki Street offers traditional Goral apparel, leather jackets, fur coats, shoes, and purses. Venders also sell foods like the famous oscypek smoked sheep cheese, fruit, vegetables, and meats. There are also many stands with Zakopane souvenirs. Zakopane is popular for its nightlife. At night there are always people walking around town checking out the different bars and dance clubs. Most of these bars and dance clubs are located on Krupowki street. [1] Other activities include also Zakopane's Thermal Baths -

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1152-565: The town gained popularity which made the number of tourists increase to about 60,000 people by 1930. During the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland , which started World War II in September 1939, the town was invaded by Germany, and the Einsatzgruppe I entered the town on September 4, 1939, to commit various crimes against Poles . In March 1940, representatives of the Soviet NKVD and

1188-418: The war, a children's Home for Holocaust Survivors was established in Zakopane. Zakopane has a humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification : Dfb ), with the main factor behind its relative coldness compared to the rest of Poland is its altitude. In general, the temperature tends to fall with altitude , therefore Zakopane is almost 3 °C (5.4 °F) colder than northern Kraków , which

1224-455: The weather can change quickly. Thunderstorms are common in the afternoons. In winter the snow can be up to several meters deep. In the winter, thousands arrive in Zakopane to ski, especially around Christmas and in February. The most popular skiing areas are Kasprowy Wierch and Gubałówka . There are a number of cross country skiing trails in the forests surrounding the town. Zakopane hosted

1260-426: The winter holidays, which are celebrated in traditional style, with dances, decorated horse-pulled sleighs called kuligs and roast lamb. A popular tourist activity is taking a stroll along the town's most popular street: Krupówki. It is lined with stores, restaurants, carnival rides, and performers. During the winter and summer seasons, Krupówki Street is crowded with tourists visiting the shops and restaurants. In

1296-629: Was founded in 1929 in Chicago as an organization that unites all other Góral organizations in the United States. Most of Chicago's Góral community is concentrated on Chicago's Southwest Side along Archer Avenue where the headquarters, also known as the "Highlander Home" ("Dom Podhalan" in Polish) is located. The Highlander House is styled as a Carpathian chalet in the traditional Zakopane Style of Architecture . Located at 4808 S. Archer Avenue in Chicago,

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