Tvrdosin: Hotels between culture and the Orava landscape

Tvrdošín is located in northern Slovakia at the southeastern tip of the Orava Basin, between the Skorušinské Mountains and the Orava Hills.

Culture

The Márie Medvecká Gallery presents a permanent exhibition featuring a selection from the life’s work of the painter and national artist Márie Medvecká. Since 1979, the permanent exhibition has been housed in a 19th-century Neoclassical manor house in Tvrdošín. It features 180 paintings and 88 drawings. Since 2000, the gallery’s attic rooms, known as the “Ateliér”, have been used for temporary exhibitions of visual art.

The oldest historic church monument complex in Tvrdošín dates back to the first half of the 15th century and was remodelled in the Renaissance style in 1650–1654. The Skalka pilgrimage site developed from a chapel carved into the rock around 1870. Prayers, litanies, Stations of the Cross devotions and a Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows take place at Skalka; the site also includes a shelter and an access road.

The Folklore Festival beneath Osobitá is a traditional annual event organised by the town of Tvrdošín in Oravice. It supports the preservation of folk traditions; its programme includes traditional children’s games, songs and dances.

The Michalský jarmok is a traditional fair in Tvrdošín held every year at the end of September. The fair offers handicrafts, traditional specialities, handmade products and various refreshments.

Nature

The nature trail in the Juráňova Valley is located in the protected area of TANAP. The trail through the Juráňova Valley leads into a one-kilometre-long limestone gorge equipped with paths and benches. The Juráňova Valley gorge features a distinctive canyon with water-carved hollows and small waterfalls.

The nature trail in Oravice includes Route A, with 22 stations and a length of 14.6 kilometres. There are three wooden shelters for resting along a route described in Oravice. The Oravice recreation centre offers opportunities for hiking, cycling and winter sports amid its mountain landscape.

Cycling

The Tvrdošín section of the Kościelisko–Witów–Oravice–Tvrdošín cycling and tourist trail is 14.7 kilometres long. Tvrdošín is also the last listed place on the 52.5-kilometre “Beneath the Roháče Mountains” cycling route through the Skorušinské vrchy.

Leisure

K-PARK is located in the Medvedzie residential area, between apartment buildings 50, 48 and 13. It includes an outdoor table-tennis table, a bouldering wall, skateboard elements, bicycle racks and a basketball hoop. The modular Adelaie pump track in Tvrdošín is 159 metres long and is located next to the entrance to the municipal technical services complex.

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