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14 unusual facts about Zakopane


Alan Rawsthorne

After graduating from the Royal Manchester College of Music around 1930, Rawsthorne spent the next couple of years pursuing his piano training with Egon Petri at Zakopane in Poland, and then briefly also in Berlin (McCabe 2004).

Alessandro Pittin

He had previousle won the Junior World Championships in Zakopane 2008.

Decalogue IX

At Roman's suggestion that the couple take a break, Hanka goes on a skiing trip alone to Zakopane, unaware that Mariusz has followed her there.

Elena Khrustaleva

Khrustaleva made her international debut at the Junior European Championships in 2000 at Zakopane.

Giewont

Long Giewont and Great Giewont are situated at a higher altitude than the nearby town of Zakopane, making them clearly visible from that city.

Gwiazdoń

Many Gwiazdoń or Gwiazdon families live in the southern part of Poland, in the region of Zakopane and Nowy Targ.

Kai Kovaljeff

He made his World Cup debut in January 2009 in Zakopane, and collected his first World Cup points with a 21st place in that race.

Kento Sakuyama

He made his Continental Cup debut in December 2007, his best result being a tenth place from Zakopane in February 2009.

Kirk Furey

In 2001, Furey helped Team Canada win silver at the 2001 Winter Universiade in Zakopane, Poland.

Niphargus tatrensis

Niphargus tatrensis was discovered in 1887 by August Wrześniowski in a well in Zakopane and described by him in 1888.

Novar House

Assynt House was later the home of the artist Lady Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie (b. 1922 – d. 1962), sister of the 4th Earl of Cromartie, and her husband Captain Oscar Linda, son of General Maximilian Linda of Zakopane, Poland.

Sarah Hendrickson

She also has two individual victories from the Continental Cup in Zakopane and Bischofsgrün.

Trap door theatre

Trap Door Theatre was incorporated in 1990 as a nomadic company touring theatres in Stockholm, Berlin, Zakopane, and Paris.

Young Poland

The most influential trend was art nouveau, although Polish artists started to seek also some form of a national style (including styl zakopiański or the Zakopane style).


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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.

Goralenvolk

Soon, a small group of local collaborators gathered under the leadership of Reichsdeutscher Witalis Wieder, with Wacław Krzeptowski – a self-proclaimed Goralenführer – and his cousins Stefan and Andrzej Krzeptowski, as well as suspected German spy Henryk Szatkowski, and Józef Cukier from Zakopane.

Harnasie

Szymanowski first visited Zakopane in the Tatras in 1921, and studied the music and folklore of the Goral people.

Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś

Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś (born 1 January 1980) is a Polish speed skater, who was born in Sanok and resides in Zakopane.

Lviv railway station

The second class waiting room was modelled after 19th century burgher houses in Galicia, while the third class waiting hall was equipped with simple wooden pieces of furniture, modelled after the Zakopane style of Polish Gorals made by the artist Tadeusz Obmiński.

Maciej Masłowski

In 1931-1939 he worked in the Department of Fine Arts of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education (Polish abbr.: WRiOP) and at the same time as the manager of Mobile Art Exhibition and organizer of the Summer Institutes of Folk Arts at Żabie on Hucul region — 1938 and in Zakopane on Podhale region — 1939.

Marcin Bachleda

He made his World Cup debut in February 2001 in Willingen, and collected his first World Cup points with a 28th place in January 2002 in Zakopane.

PKP class EP08

All machines of this class station in Warsaw but as top speed on Warsaw-Poznań line had been increased to 160 km/h they are no longer used on regular basis and serve as auxiliary machines, mostly pulling trains from Warsaw to Zakopane.

Tatra National Park, Poland

Current environmental threats include: the proximity of the fast-developing town of Zakopane; and air pollution from the industrial zones in Kraków, Ostrava, and Orava.

Trebunie-Tutki

Trebunie-Tutki is a folk musical group consisting of a family of musicians originating from Biały Dunajec village near Zakopane, Poland.