The best traffic-free bike rides around gmina Bukowina Tatrzańska

driveway from Kacwin or from Łapsze Niżne

The surface is okay, the inclines are okay. The views are fantastic.

The length of the climb is 4.4 km, and the elevation gain is 240 m. The average gradient is 5.7%, but it is a varied climb, with parts up to 13%. The asphalt surface is impeccable. Along the way, we can count on wonderful Tatra views.

The ascent to Łapszanka from the village of Łapsze Wyżne is relatively long, 7 km, with 310 m of elevation gain to overcome. The average gradient is 4.4%. The ascent is gentle, the asphalt is good, and the views of the Tatras from the top are truly beautiful.

Probably the most famous climb in Poland by road cyclists, one of the most demanding stages of the Tour de Pologne. Thanks to this, Gliczarów is also known in Europe. Average gradient of 5.8% in less than 6 kilometers, in the most difficult parts exceeds 15%. After reaching the top, a quiet descent to Bukowina awaits us.

Good surface, through the silence 👍😁

The church is located on a large square in the center of the village. The building represents a transitional type from Gothic to Renaissance. The church is oriented, single-nave, with a wider, two-bay, rectangular nave, with a polygonal chancel. There is a sacristy by the presbytery from the north, and a porch by the nave from the south. From the west, there is a square tower topped with an attic, below which there is a wooden hoarding, i.e. a porch, which once served as an observation and guard. The roof is single-ridged with a turret for a turret covered with an onion-shaped cupola. The church is brick, plastered, the roof covered with shingles. Inside, in the presbytery, a vault with decorative ribs is visible, in the nave there is a barrel vault with lunettes, the walls of the nave are divided by pilasters. It is fenced with a stone wall covered with a gable, shingled roof. There are gates from the south and west. Within the fence, there are the remains of the former church cemetery - stone tombstones with iron crosses. The interior of the temple is mostly rococo, dating from the 18th century. The polychrome comes from the 1970s. The pulpit is wooden, with a painting on the back showing Christ knocking on the door. The stone baptismal font dates from 1746. The church is one of the two surviving defensive structures in the Polish Spisz region. The monument is accessible from the outside all year round, inside during the Holy Mass.

In the northern part of Czarna Góra, in a housing estate called "Zagóra", there is a wooden homestead that once belonged to the local wealthy Korkosz family. The layout of the buildings is an example of the development of the Spiš homestead: from a simple one, consisting of two buildings (a cottage and a stable) at the end of the 19th century, to a complex of many buildings in the 1930s. The oldest buildings were built at the end of the 19th century by Alojzy Chyżny. Alojzy Chyżny stayed in America for several years. After returning to the village in 1919, he expanded the cottage, adding a magnificent "great room" with a chamber. Further expansion of the homestead was made by Sebastian Korkosz, husband of Elżbieta - daughter of Alojzy. In the 1930s, further farm buildings were built: a stone stable and a coach house. The first treadmill in the village was placed in the former stable. The last expansion took place in the 1940s - then a room called the "summer" or "lord's" room with a separate entrance through the added porch was erected in the place of the chamber. After the conservation renovation, the Tatra Museum organized an ethnographic exhibition inside, depicting a rich Spiš farm from the interwar period.