Hotels in Oravská Polhora – Bagpipe Culture, Bogland and Babia hora

Oravská Polhora combines cultural sites, protected nature and opportunities for hiking, cycling and winter sports. Its different facets can be explored through specific exhibitions, landscapes and activities, each offering its own areas of focus.

Culture

Hájovňa pod Babou horou houses two literary exhibitions: one by the Orava Museum about Hájnikova žena by Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, as well as one about Milo Urban. The European Centre of Bagpipe Culture in Oravská Polhora offers a different cultural focus. It houses a museum dedicated to bagpipe music and its history, featuring various types of bagpipes and other related artefacts. At the same time, the centre provides space for cultural events, workshops, concerts and exhibitions that address more than just bagpipe music and culture.

The international GAJDOVAČKA festival in Oravská Polhora featured concerts, workshops, lectures, a gala programme and a celebratory mass with bagpipe music from various European countries. The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus contains a 5.2-metre-high statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Modralová, also known as Gajdošská strunga, likewise connects three regions with vibrant bagpipe traditions: Orava, Silesia and Lesser Poland.

Nature

The iodine-bromine spring Slaná voda is freely accessible to visitors and is located in a pavilion on the site of the former spa. Of the three protected bogs in Oravská Polhora, Slaná voda Bog is the best preserved and the most accessible to tourists via an educational trail. The bog can be explored along a wooden boardwalk, where visitors can observe round-leaved sundews, orchids and dragonflies.

Hiking and Cycling

A seven-hour circular hike to Babia hora starts and ends at Slaná voda. The circular route uses Slaná voda as its access point, where there is a bus stop and a car park. The Slaná voda–Babia hora educational trail begins in Oravská Polhora near the Slaná voda chalet and includes 13 stops.

Modralová is also connected by various routes: a cycling route leads to it, while a moderately difficult hike to Modralová begins in the Píla district.

Winter

SKI Oravská Polhora offers ski mountaineering and cross-country skiing. It also provides ski equipment rental, a ski school, ski servicing, ski mountaineering equipment rental and e-bike rental. SKI Oravská Polhora is a family-friendly ski resort in the town centre with five lifts and approximately two kilometres of pistes in total.

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Other Places

More destinations: Oravská Lesná, Rabčice, Mútne, Bobrov, Sihelne, Oravské Veselé, Hruštín, Zákamenné.

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