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unusual facts about Poprad-Tatry–Tatranská Lomnica railway



Bids for the 2006 Winter Olympics

The other four non-shortlisted candidate cities that made presentations to the IOC were Helsinki, Klagenfurt, Poprad-Tatry and Zakopane.

Figure skating at the 1999 European Youth Olympic Festival

Figure skating competitions at the 4th European Youth Olympic Festival were only held in junior single skating and Ice Dancing categories in Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia, between March 6 and March 12.

Ladislav Rygl

Ladislav Rygl, Sr., who won the Nordic combined event at the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Vysoké Tatry

Leslie Kish

Kish was born in Poprad, Slovakia; he arrived with his family in the USA in 1926 with an English vocabulary of approximately 300 words.

Master Paul of Levoča

A list of some of his works includes an altar of St. Barbara in Banská Bystrica from 1509, an altar of St. George in Spišská Sobota (today a part of Poprad) from 1516, and his most famous work, completed in 1517, an altar in the St. James church in Levoča.

Ruś Szlachtowska

It was separated from the rest of Lemkivshchyna by the Polish-dominated Poprad valley which led to isolation of the local population and it gradual assimilation with Poles and Slovaks, until Operation Vistula of 1947, when the Lemkos were deported together with Ukrainians to other areas of Poland and to the Soviet Union.

Spišské

Spišské Bystré, large village and municipality in Poprad District in the Prešov Region of northern Slovakia

Statue of Lenin, Seattle

Venkov's work was completed and installed in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), in 1988, shortly before the fall of Czechoslovak communism during the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

Tatranská Lomnica railway station

It also forms the junction between that line and the standard gauge Poprad-Tatry–Tatranská Lomnica branch, which is a spur line from the Poprad-Tatry–Plaveč railway, another standard gauge branch line.

Opened in 1895, the station is the eastern terminus of the Starý Smokovec—Tatranská Lomnica branch line operated by the metre gauge Tatra Electric Railway (TEŽ).

Vysoké Tatry

In 1954, parts of the municipalities Pribylina (the majority of which was returned in 2004), Východná, and Liptovská Kokava were added to Vysoké Tatry.


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